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Listen up, folks. If you deliberately tell your child things you know to be untrue, the word for this practice is lying. And if somebody else says "I don't believe in lying to kids", they're not implying that you lie to your children, they're saying it flat-out. Because you do.
Now, you may have perfectly good reasons for this, and it might all be fun, and your kid will probably not go through 29,000 years of counseling over this (and if they do, I would suggest that their problems go a lot deeper than whether or not Mom and Dad went overboard with the whole Santa thing) - but if you don't like people telling you that you're lying to your kids, I really suggest you don't ask their opinions on, well, whether or not one should lie to children.
And on that note, if I take a stand on "I don't like lying to children (except when it's so over-the-top that the child can easily recognize it's a game)"... guess what? I try to have even *more* respect for you and your intelligence than for the child's! Because you're an adult! So I'm not going to have this opinion (lying to kids is wrong) and simultaneously lie to you when you ask for opinions on the subject of lying to kids.
Should my mind not, in fact, be boggling? Is there a polite way to tell people that no, telling kids lies is the very definition of lying?
I guess I just don't get it.
Edit: On a related subject - we're all adults. FUCK FUCK FUCK SHIT FUCK HELL FUCK. I'm not starring out the vowels. If you don't want to see the word, try not typing it in the first place.
Now, you may have perfectly good reasons for this, and it might all be fun, and your kid will probably not go through 29,000 years of counseling over this (and if they do, I would suggest that their problems go a lot deeper than whether or not Mom and Dad went overboard with the whole Santa thing) - but if you don't like people telling you that you're lying to your kids, I really suggest you don't ask their opinions on, well, whether or not one should lie to children.
And on that note, if I take a stand on "I don't like lying to children (except when it's so over-the-top that the child can easily recognize it's a game)"... guess what? I try to have even *more* respect for you and your intelligence than for the child's! Because you're an adult! So I'm not going to have this opinion (lying to kids is wrong) and simultaneously lie to you when you ask for opinions on the subject of lying to kids.
Should my mind not, in fact, be boggling? Is there a polite way to tell people that no, telling kids lies is the very definition of lying?
I guess I just don't get it.
Edit: On a related subject - we're all adults. FUCK FUCK FUCK SHIT FUCK HELL FUCK. I'm not starring out the vowels. If you don't want to see the word, try not typing it in the first place.
