Why NOT Lie About Jolly Old St.Nicholas?

As parents know, Santa is not real. However, according to children, he's this really awesome old dude that flies around on a sled pulled by reindeer every Christmas and somehow manages to fit through your chimney and steals all your cookies and milk but leaves you presents in exchange. Personally, I feel like it's a symbol of youth and innocence to believe in Santa, and I DEFINITELY believe that parents should lie about it if the child believes in him already. Which parent would want to ruin their kid's excitement or joy of having Santa deliver him or her presents overnight? The kids enjoy going to the mall and meeting Santa Claus and telling him what they want for Christmas. Also, it's a good way to keep the kids from being annoying towards the end of the year because you can threaten them by saying Santa won't get them anything. And technically, there WAS a guy named St. Nicholas who gave good children gifts and bad children lumps of coal, so it's not really lying.


However, not only is the Santa myth fun for the kids, but it's also fun for the parents as well! They get to play pretend and dress up and assist the kids in making cookies and just watch the overall enjoyment of their child. Also, it's fun to watch how excited and eager the kids are to get their presents from Santa. Another fun part of spreading the Santa belief to their children is being able to help write and even mail letters to Santa and being able to write them a letter back from Santa.

Personally, coming from a non-Christian family, Christmas was never really an important holiday for us, so we weren't going to preach to my younger sibling about Jesus and all that other Christmas history. Therefore, the Santa myth kind of makes sense to tell them, only because they had no other understanding of why kids get presents on Christmas. So rather than making it seem like only a religious holiday, Santa is a way to make the kids happy and just enjoy their youth while they still have it.

Many parents choose not to tell their children about Santa because they're afraid that their children will be disappointed when they find out, but why would you want to deprive them of their childhood because of something that may or not happen later in the future? I think that they should be able to experience the excitement that Santa Claus brings to them, and the parents should worry about that whenever that time comes.

So overall, I believe that if a child believes in Santa, that his or her parents should encourage it rather than neglect the belief. It's a fun time in a child's life, and parents shouldn't deprive their children of that.