Do you favor or oppose to allow children to believe in Santa and other fairy tales as real?

caltam84: Do you favor or oppose to allow children to believe in Santa and other fairy tales as real?
Imaginative figures like Santa, tooth fairy are believed to be true by many little children.

Despite that fact that Santa does not exist in real life, are you in favor or against allowing more children to believe in him? Tooth fairy also never existed in reality.

Answers and Views:

Answer by Your Momma
I opposed it, but because of their exposure to the commercial media, they believed it as long as they wanted to…no matter how blunt I was about it.
LOL – they’d say, “Oh mom, you’re just trying to make us think that we’re not getting any presents”

btw- although I ascribe to no religion, the christmas spirit is about giving and no religion has a sole claim on that.

Answer by Alexis
let them! they will find out eventually! and it always fun for little kids looking forward to writing notes and gettting presents! let them have fun as children!

Answer by Steph
I think that’s a decision that each parent needs to make for their child.

My children believe in Santa. We plan on teaching them about St. Nick when they are too old to keep believing. I was always freaked out by the tooth fairy, so I don’t plan on introducing that to my kids. The easter bunny is too weird IMO too.

Answer by Obvious Troll
W-what? Santa doesn’t exist!? No…that can’t be true!

Answer by Tasty Cakes =)
OF COURSE! when i was younger it was always so fun on xmas eve to look up in the sky and try to see if you can see santa flying by. writing letters and staying up as long as you could to see if you could catch santa laying out your presents. i favor it if i wasnt clear. i loved all of the charcters. the easter bunny, tooth fairy, all that good junk. on valentines day my mom always had a present for me and my sister yoo =D. ahhh… the good ol’ days.
im 14 =)

Answer by Stephanie
I don’t think that there is any harm in letting children believe in these myths. Once they get to a certain age they are able to make up there minds on weather they think they are real or not. And up until that point by allowing them to part take in this is all you have done is made fun memories for them to someday pass along.

Answer by LoneWolf
I am totally fine with kids believing in the tooth fairy and things like that. I am jewish, though, so I never believed in Santa or the Easter bunny. Personally, I think that kids shouldn’t believe in Santa because a) In a lot of commercials Santa advertises beer or other products, and b) that way children learn to appreciate their parents’ efforts and money. However, the tooth fairy is a harmless belief, and it’s fun to believe in the tooth fairy. Later in life (8 years old or so) they should learn the truth. They can be told, or if they won’t believe, be intentionally loud when putting the present under the pillow (or the present under the tree).

Answer by peachyone
Of course allow your children to believe in fantasy. It is an integral part of a child’s development to learn to discern what is acceptable deviation from “literal truth” and what is clearly false. If parents would take a look back at their own childhoods, they would probably remember that they figured out about these “fairy tales” on their own, without anyone having to “debunk the myth”! Belief in fantasy is the basis for a healthy and inventive imagination, which in turn is essential to reasoning. It’s interesting to note that many of the “let’s keep those blatant falsehoods away from our kids” people are the same ones who refuse to be as literal when it comes to educating their kids about sex.

Answer by Sweet thang
this may sound odd but im not for or against letting children believe in fairy tales. i mean i’m for it because it gives children a chance to be well kids and they believe that good will always Triumph but then again……… why fill their heads with lies? i mean, their just going to end up not believing in fairy tales when they get older any ways so…….. what’s the point?

Answer by Terry
The brain can seldom overcome the heart. All those you speak of are embeded in the hearts of millions.

Answer by cardimom
You are treading on dangerous ground, don’t disrespect the Yule Elf! he lives in Finland-look it up. If you continue to speak badly about Faeries they will steal your car keys, and knot your hair in your sleep, hide your jewelry and maybe even damage the house.
shhhh, don’t ever say those things again.
In all seriousness-it’s actually a way for some of us to keep connected to the ancient past of our ethnicity-so for me it has always been valuable-even if it has changed over time.
It was a way that I could connect with both my Grans and has left me with fond, cherished memories.