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Totally agree!

I found my son sitting in bed in tears because he didn’t want the tooth fairy taking his two first teeth away. I hated myself for choosing to maintain the lie of her ‘existing’ by writing her a note to ask her to leave them!

At least his dad and I decided right at the start that ‘Santa’ would only ever bring something little and that the rest of the presents would always come from mum and dad.

I worked in a primary school for a number of years and witnessed children bewildered that they were not ‘good enough’ to have received the latest (expensive) present when their classmate somehow was.

Everything you said was right imo.

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Bless you and him xx

I can still remember my mum telling me in an argument that the tooth fairy wasn’t real. It broke my heart at the time.💔

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Aw that’s sad. I did explain to him a few years later and told him how awful I felt for him at the time.

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F me, I just spat my Egg nog. Julie, how do you make your Truth Bombs so damn funny?

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Been wanting to say all that for a while 😂😂

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"Gaslighting Bastards" deserves an Enid Blyton short story all of it's own.

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There’s a lot of truth in that sadly.

Santa was a rehearsal for Convid where anyone calling out the lie gets demonised whilst the masses conspire to keep up the lie.

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It’s wheels within wheels all the time. Then there are the obvious parallels with religion too.

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Ha! Tend to agree. Very uncomfortable with the whole deception thing when it came to my kids. That some dodgy bloke broke into the house one night and left them stuff. Couldn’t be doing with it.

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Yes. “He sees you when you’re sleeping”

Hmm…. That’s stalker shit.😳

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💯I just remember being anxious and confused by the whole idea as a kid, then having to pretend it existed for the sake of a younger sibling. As you say, how do you teach kids the value of truthfulness whilst perpetuating this? How do you convince children from poor families that they are not less worthy of Santa's beneficence than other kids, it's just that their parent(s) don't have the money? Yuk.

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Thats one of the bits I edited out actually, The sheer injustice that is promoted. That some get more than others.

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I always tell the parents that come through my till " your words will become their inner voice" if they're sniping at their kids.

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Absolutely. I completely agree. It’s so sad that what is supposed to be a thing of joy (gifts) can be employed as a tool of bribery and threat.

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At first I didn't agree but as I read on I did see you have a valid point.

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It’s an extreme tongue in cheek rant but the main thing I wanted to do was to make people think - consider what and why they do things. We put our tree up today. I’m not a complete Grinch😂x

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👯‍♀️

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Well this made me laugh out loud.

🎅🎅🎅😂😂😂

Ps

I love Santa

I BELIEVE

I’m also a twat, but hey ho ho ho

Great article Julie 👍💖

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…..too harsh?🤷‍♀️😂😂😂

Nice to see you Trudi. X

I’m glad Santa has his an ally in you 😂

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Bah humbug 🤣🤣🤣

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😂😂😂

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As much as I love Christmas, I have no words of defence for this caricature of St Nicholas. Marketing manipulation at its finest. X

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This is on Facebook too btw.

It - of course - was written tongue in cheek, but hoping to make people think a little rather than blindly complying.

In this country, there’s no escaping Santa banter whether we want to or not. Although I wanted my child to not partake, because everyone else does, it would have been too harsh a line to take so we came to a happy medium of treating him like a story book character rather than ‘real’. This worked for us.

Am interested to hear other peoples thoughts - if some of you agree with me or if I’m just a moany old cynic…🤷‍♀️😂

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I was just thinking this, how fake Santa is, a whole festival geared around a fairytale!

But worse, 1st Dec and instead of feeling enchanted with a month of crisp walking, ice on the trees, I thought ugh, a month of Cmas jingles and avoiding shops! There is nothing I need to buy so I will avoid towns. December is about more than Cmas, altho Kent has been celebrating the solstice for 2 weeks already so its old hat now! Those tired movies, the same old songs!

It's a gigantic emperor, EVERY SINGLE PERSON is fedup to the teeth with it but NO ONE speaks out bcos its not for the kids, its for the economy - shops take up to 40% of their annual takings in Dec!!! We are undr peer pressure, under pressure to keep the economy going -- w/o Cmas it would be 4 months of cold + mud with no celebrations at all, no bank holidays, just groundhog boredom

Even grousing about Cmas keeps ppl going

So I reckon it will stick around until the ill eagles get all white women preggers and the new wave of muslim takes root in exGB

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I don’t mind Santa being *a thing *, I just resent the extent they impose it on kids. The way it’s on telly, radio etc It’s a bit much.

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