24th February 2007, 3:57 PM
Well, he's right.
And what's wrong with telling your kids the story of Santa the same way, in the same tone as telling them the story of Jack and his beanstalk? That is to say, as fun and enjoyment but not once with the pretense that the story is true. I've known a few kids raised in exactly that fasion and they enjoyed Santa as much as any other kid, they just weren't tricked into thinking he was real at any point. It's not like not telling kids that he's real REQUIRES one to be a curmugeon that ruins dreamland.
And what's wrong with telling your kids the story of Santa the same way, in the same tone as telling them the story of Jack and his beanstalk? That is to say, as fun and enjoyment but not once with the pretense that the story is true. I've known a few kids raised in exactly that fasion and they enjoyed Santa as much as any other kid, they just weren't tricked into thinking he was real at any point. It's not like not telling kids that he's real REQUIRES one to be a curmugeon that ruins dreamland.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)