Telling your Child About Santa While Still Keeping the Magic
If you are like me, it feels a little icky to teach your kids about Santa only to then know one day they will "find out" and realize you've been stringing them along. Because my oldest went through a lot with the divorce, I wanted to make sure the "Santa conversation " not only helped him still feel the magic of Christmas, but that it didn't erode the trust that I had built with him after navigating some tumultuous years. I have kept my ears to the ground for awhile about this subject, so when my son came to me this year asking, I felt ready. He came home one day from school, and in his rather matter of fact way announced that he knew that the Santa's at the Santa shacks and at the malls were just men dressed up. But with a desire to know the truth in his eyes, looked at me and said, now tell me, is there a real Santa at the North Pole? I told him that he was correct, that the Santa's dressed up weren't real, but that the question of real Santa ...