Santa, Easter Bunny and the like....

[PurpleChicken]

We get them all. They usually wake me up in the middle of the night
looking for cookies or something. Santa has to knock because we have
no chimney. The Easter Bunny can walk through walls using magic.
Now as for the Tooth Fairy, I met him at a bar one night and he just won't leave me
alone. I think it's his sister who shows up with cash for teeth.

Hi Drumstick

 

[speckledhen]

You are not alone, KyMama. We don't participate in any of those holidays.

 

[mdbucks]

We get visited by all of these folks, and the Fat man in red sends me a special envolope in January just to let me know HOW MUCH he enjoyed the visit.

 

[SeaChick]

We do get visited by those guys, but they generally try to bring us handmade, locally-made, or at the very least American-made things that we pretty much need anyway. Or books and art supplies. Of course there are a few excelptions!!! I am feeling guilty becuase I bought my godson a "National Geographic" toy at Target that was made in China. But it was just too cool to pass up: a radio-contolled tarantula!! (His mom is gonna kill me, but it was SHE who got my daughter her first Barbie doll after I'd said, NO Barbies!)

Merry Christmas!

 

[cockadoodlemom]

They stop by our house and leave gifts to celebrate the Gift that Jesus gave us. I am truly blessed because my children know the true meaning of Easter and Christmas. Yall have a Very Merry Christmas!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I am kid-free so it's not an issue in my house. but I have 5 nieces.

My sister's family has Santa come and he brings three gifts per child because that's how many gifts the Wise Men brought Baby Jesus.

My brother is married to a girl from Columbia and they have a lot of her family's customs added in. I don't think they do Santa. They have something like a Baby Jesus night when the gifts come and are put at the foot of their bed. I can't remember exactly. I know they try to keep things small too.

Don't know what I'd do. I always loved the Santa thing as a kid. I think I would want to pass that fun along! It was never an issue in our world differentiating between Santa and the true meaning of Christmas.

Go with whatever works for you and your family though. I should think whatever you are most comfortable with is the right answer.

CG

 

[jeaucamom]

I will be very careful not to jump on one of my most passionate soapboxes......

Neither Santa nor the Easter Bunny visit our home and the true meaning of the most Holy days of they year have the focus on the only reason those days exist.... Jesus himself.

Now the tooth fairy, since it is not replacing something my Lord and Savior did to give eternal life, like humbling himself and becoming man in order to die on a cross and remove my sins, she (the tooth fairy) does come around.

 

[poppycat]

Santa didn't visit our house either, but now he does with just a little something like some colored pencils, or a nice pair of socks.

I was raised in a very religious home and Santa was frowned upon. Then I had my first kid, and we stayed true to my families holiday traditions. When my son was old enough to socialize, he learned about Santa in preschool and freaked out that a grown man might be coming down our chimney on Christmas eve. I told him to relax. He was visibly relieved but at that age it was very hard for him to reconcile how his friends could so earnestly believe in something that he considered a myth. Plus I got a little "feedback" from the other mom's in his class, that he was upsetting their kids by telling them Santa wasn't real and could I please make him stop.

Soooo we did a little age appropriate research into the history of holiday traditions and learned about St. Nicholas day and how, over time it has morphed into our American Santa. We decided that it might be fun if Santa had came and brought him a little something, but he wouldn't have to worry about exactly how it got there.

When my husband and I started looking into holiday traditions to better explain them to our son, we found that a lot of them have a more colored history than Santa Clause. Ultimately we have relaxed a little from what I was taught by my parents.

Didn't mean to write a book, it's just a subject that has given me my fair share of heartburn

 

[Wildsky]

Quote:
DITTO!

 

[Wildsky]

For those that santa doesn't visit - do you exchange gifts? Or does that also conflict with religious teachings?