@benhamill our kids are well past the age of knowing. BUT, we still do some Santa...

Why? Because its about the spirit of Santa.

We want them to understand that just because something isn't concrete, that doesn't make the spirit of the holiday any less.

Thoughts and spirits have meaning too.

I also don't think it's a lie to say Santa IS real... he's just an idea instead of a person.

But like you said... that's just us being us... what you do is cool too.

@benhamill I thnk a little magickal thought is ok sometimes... It stirs the soul to good actions.

@benhamill
We felt the same, but our daughter started believing in santa real hard, all by herself. We figured telling her would be much shittier parenting than pretending he was real in the first place…

@shadowfirebird Yeah. Society sort of assumes that every kid gets told the same thing about Santa.

@benhamill
aka The Problem With School, we assume. I mean it wasn't the worst school by any means. But every so often she would come up the the weirdest ideas from somewhere. (And they fucked up big time when she was being bullied, which is another story altogether.)

@shadowfirebird Good. That's a bummer. But I feel you in the more general sense.