{"id":5586,"date":"2012-12-02T08:06:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T06:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/zaparents-blog\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2022-06-21T09:44:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T07:44:27","slug":"is-father-christmas-real-and-should-we-lie-about-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/lifestyle\/culture\/is-father-christmas-real-and-should-we-lie-about-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Father Christmas real? To lie or not to lie, that is the question!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Father Christmas, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy\u2026 what these three all have in common is that we know perfectly well that it is us filling the stockings, hiding the eggs and replacing lost dentition with cash. But do your kids know this? And is lying ok when it\u2019s in the spirit of fun? Or not?<\/span><\/p>\n

Is lying ok when it comes to Father Christmas?<\/span><\/h2>\n

There is a pretty good argument for allowing your kids to live in a fantasy world of big red men that climb down chimneys and fairies that collect lost teeth. I\u2019m all for imagination and fantasy play \u2013 where would we be without the dreamers coming up with new inventions and challenging old<\/p>\n

ideas?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also all for modeling for my kids what I would like them to be doing themselves. Like telling the truth. And creating trust.<\/p>\n

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I leave things a bit more open ended when I actually don\u2019t know the answer myself. Aliens, for example. Do they exist? Well, I simply don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve never seen one myself, but with an incredibly expansive universe such as the one we\u2019re a tiny dot in, it seems unlikely to me that we\u2019re totally alone. Who knows?!<\/p>\n

But Father Christmas? If I know very well that it\u2019s me doing the gifting, it seems only right to me to tell my kids this. It\u2019s called telling the truth. And I\u2019m hoping that they will do the same. I\u2019m also hoping that one day they won\u2019t turn around and go, \u201cif she lied to me about that, well what else did she say that is false? Should I question it all?\u201d<\/p>\n

Take it from someone who\u2019s done this \u2013 my kids still love their stockings on Christmas morning, they enjoy every minute of their Easter Egg hunt and they always leave their teeth out for Mom The Tooth Fairy! They also both have vast imaginations and spend hours each day in fantasy games, some of which include Father Christmas and our friend the rabbit. And, they trust me to be honest with them, always.<\/p>\n

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