Just a random thing I was thinking about today. I don't have kids so I can't say.
For those who do have kids, in the age of the Internet is it harder to tell your kids about Santa Claus and keep them believing unto an appropriate age?
Ah, today's kids...so precious...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj_zv8IuP1Y
shareIdk. In some ways, it makes it easier because online shopping means kids are not with their parents when they're buying the presents and everything comes sealed and concealed. You can also make wishlists online and buy throughout the year, so if a kid asks for something in March and gets it in December, without their parents asking what they want again in between, total surprise for some kids - and that adds to the Santa myth.
Those are some interesting points. I wonder if sometimes the kids forgot that they even wanted some of those things if they are things they asked for six months prior.
I had forgotten about parents sometimes having to try to buy things for Christmas while their kids are with them. At least before the Internet, Christmas shopping must have been an ordeal for single parents.
I don't know how kids ever believed in Santa, coz I know a lot of parents who had to buy presents with their kids around. I even knew parents who would take their kids shopping just to try and gauge what they were into and then went to buy those things while the kids were at school, so the kids knew something was going on.
shareNo, it was not difficult at all.
We just had to hide an avalanche of Amazon boxes and shopping bags in a locked closet every Christmas Season or they’d start asking questions like two pint sized Peter Falks… ‘Oh, I see Dad, that makes sense.’ *pulls out mini notepad and tiny golf pencil… ‘Uh, just one more question…’
Before they were ten they knew the score and they are in their teens now and I still threaten them with ‘The Naughty List.’ It’s become a silly Dad joke for us.