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We've told our daughter the 'truth' from the start pretty much. When she was one I wanted to start the Santa thing. Then my mother, who believes Santa is a created of the devil used to distract us from the 'real meaning' of Christmas, told us that if we insisted on lying to our daughter she would not help us. If our daughter ever mentioned Santa to her she would tell her the truth.
Soooo rather than allowing her to make us out to be the bad guy we told her the truth. She is five now and has friends who do believe still and she decided that Mom and Dad are just duped into not believing. She wanted to go see Santa, she only had 3 things that she HAD to have from Santa, and she wanted badly to leave carrots and cookies and milk out even though we'd never told her to do those things. When we opened our presents on Christmas we didn't say that any were from Santa and she never asked.
In the end we tell her that Santa is a fun thing to pretend and that he does something that we all should do, giving others thoughtful gifts. She doesn't seem bothered by it in the least and enjoy ths Santa game.
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