The Santa white lie?

So I have been wondering about this for a bit, You know how we tell our children about santa and they light in their eyes glisten as they write their lists to him and wait in excitement and anticipation for him? I have to wonder if us doing this is the right thing or not, I mean if anyone does this by all means do so I am not putting anyone down I myself feel sad when my little niece will realize the magic of santa is a fraud but is it the right thing to tell our kids this?

I mean I know many call it a little white lie but a lie is still a lie and I wonder what Jesus would have said about it, like would he call it wrong to tell our kids this? Would he say it's fine? This is a thing I simply cannot fully decide on...

I think it is a VERY GOOD QUESTION, Blain. I told my kids that santa is an imagination gift given to us by God, that we shouldn't feel the need to cast Him out or down, unless we forget or negate that Jesus, the "REAL" reason for Christmas, is another, much better, gift from God.

What are you guys getting at?? It almost sounds like you're saying Santa's not real.

Oh um uh, uhhhhh, lol

a lie is still a lie

I learned at a very early age of six that santa was not real but now that I am older and I see the excitement in childrens hearts I wonder if I were to be a parent what I would do. I mean say I raised a little girl to know that santa is not real and she goes to school telling all the kids who do believe that he isn't real and when questioned she says her daddy told her. I can of course expect an angry mob of parents but even if it is a lie do I have the right to take that kind of excitement from my little girl or from other kids because she spilled the beans for that matter?

It is a lie and therefore I would be sinning but the confliction I struggle with I suppose makes me want to somehow justify it mainly I suppose because we live in a generation where most were grown up with this facade and in a lot of [peoples eyes the general idea is that it is wrong and cruel to take a child's joy of santa away from them like that.

Children live in a world of fairy tales and make believe.
Nothing wrong with a good dose of make believe, fairy’s,
talking penguins, pretending to be a horse (I loved black beauty).
Or pretending to be a dog (I loved lassie!). Oh and don’t forget the
tooth fairy and flying snowmen.

Santa is just another make believe fairy tale. I think most kids know
that really and are happy to play along.

Not a new idea. I had this posed as a teen myself.
I was raised being told about santa but knew he wasn't real at a very young age. I even told my parents I knew he wasn't real.
Personally I wouldn't say it in a manner that I was teaching them he was real. But perhaps more of as a fun story. Or you could even, instead, share the true story of St Nicholas and teach about sharing and giving rather than receiving.
Also, let's face it, santa implants the idea that "good deeds get rewarded, bad deeds get punished". Reality isn't always that way, so why start them off disadvantaged?

But, really, what others decide doesn't phase me. I'm not the one living with the choice.

All I know is when my parents got me Christmas presents back in my childhood they made certain I knew it came from them because they loved me, not from a fat guy in a red suit.

And if I ever did have children of my own, no way would I let some mythical fat guy get the credit for the presents I spent my hard-earned money on.

Are you suggesting that Santa's not white?

His beard is white! lol

There's a reason Santa and Satan are such closely spelled names.

You've been warned.

That dude, bag slung over his shoulder in your house on Christmas Eve? He's taking stuff, not leaving stuff.

I thought snowmen were white.

Depends where you live. Lol

I hated Santa I would never go sit on his knee.
I mean, why would a kid want to go sit on a strange
fat man’s knee who said hoo hoo hoo and charged you
for it! Lol.

Santa is actually from mythology. I just think u dont need santa or christmas treea and all tgat pagan stuff to enjoya day off. Why lie if u can change things