Ok this is sort of a sad story. This afternoon our neighbor's daughter told my son that there is no Santa Claus. He was really bummed and the reason is a little sad. He's been wanting an Ipod touch for Christmas and he knows that Danielle and I won't buy it for him so in his mind the only hope to get one was if Santa brought it. Now that he knows there is no Santa he knows that he's not getting it. We tried to make good out of the situation and let him know that he's now in the exclusive club with his mom and his dad and now he gets to help us figure out what "santa" is going to bring everyone this year. Unfortunately, that didn't help the situation too much.
The reality is he's probably more bummed about not getting an ipod than Santa not being real.
Sometimes it's hard to be a parent.
my parents acutally never told us (my siblings and I) about Santa Claus. They explain it that if they told us about this great, magical man and then had to break the news later in life to us that he didn’t exist, that we’d be less likely to believe in Jesus. My sister says she’s scared for not having gotten to believe in Santa but I don’t think we really missed out.
I don’t have kids so I’m sure I couldn’t begin to imagine just how hard it would be to be a parent. In terms of telling my kids about Santa, I’ll have to see…
can you tell Kaije as well so he doesn’t leave the reindeer dust at our house any more….we are still finding it and its Nov…
So what you’re saying is that you want us to chip in to get him an iPod Touch?