Hi All-
This is sort of OT at the moment, though I think it will come up with inlaws at some point in the future. And might have come up for some of you, I would love to know.
The situation in a nutshell- my daughter, who recently turned four, does not believe in Santa Claus. Which is cool with my wife and me; we think she's right.
A lot of her friends, however, DO believe in Santa Claus.
My wife and I had a convo a couple of days ago- she's worried about what might happen if DD tells her friends about Santa?
I didn't see the issue- I assume that if she tells friends that Santa is just a story, their parents can tell the kids (in an age appropriate way) that different families have different things for Christmas, and that my DD may not know about Santa. (Basically, what I do when friends tell DD that Santa DOES exist.)
So I wonder what you all think? Is there a problem here that I'm not seeing? I sort of figure that with kids young enough to believe in Santa, parents have the most credibility, so it doesn't matter to me very much what other kids tell mine.
But my wife is concerned that other parents won't like it if our daughter tells their kids that Santa is "only pretend real" as she says. (And that presents come from mom and dad, as she knows.)
This hasn't come up with the inlaws yet, because they are 9 time zones away. But there are parents of young kids on that side of the fam, and it likely will come up next year when we go visit at xmas, as is a possibility.
MWB
