Post #424194 by bananabobs on Tue, Dec 16, 2008 12:10 AM

My parents used to pound into us kids that "your good word is priceless" and "a man is only as good as his word" and "Lying is a sin"
So at 11 years old when a kid down the street said there is no Santa Clause and my Mom just told me there is, I bloodied his nose. When I got home and confronted my Mom, she just laughed at me and said there is no Santa clause, that I was "Old enough to know"
I decided that I never want to LIE to my kids. My Wife and I never did Santa Clause with the kids, they knew that he was a fictional person just like they knew that it was not a 6 foot rat running around Disneyland, they were able to have fun with it but we never lied to them. We used to get their pictures taken with the mall Santas too, just like they had their picture taken with Mickey and Minnie and they knew it was pretend and they had a lot of fun with it too. Now as Adults, they are doing the same.