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Location: Flat Rock,IL | I never thought about it,think when they go back to school.....sorry trying to copy, but it did not.When kids go back to school and say santa got me all these nice things and some kids who's parents cannot go out buy nice gifts.
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| FlyingJT - 2014-12-19 9:56 AM
My sons teacher, he's in preK, told him that Santa was fake and the north pole was make believe!
What??? I would have been one ticked off momma at the school making sure they knew i was highly upset about that!!! That is crazy!! |
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Location: Texas | I saw that on facebook yesterday and I honestly hadn't thought about it either. But I can see how it would be hard for little kids to understand. I will make sure that the nice gifts are from me and my husband and let Santa get the smaller gifts. Besides....smaller gifts fit in the sleigh a lot easier! |
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Location: Back in MT BABY!!! | Murphy - 2014-12-18 12:04 PM I'm just tired of having to be overly sensitive to everyone and everything. My feet are killing me from walking on eggshells all the time.
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| runnin.on.dreams - 2014-12-18 1:02 PM
FlyingJT - 2014-12-19 9:56 AM
My sons teacher, he's in preK, told him that Santa was fake and the north pole was make believe!
What??? I would have been one ticked off momma at the school making sure they knew i was highly upset about that!!! That is crazy!!
oh, I was HOT!! Thank goodness his sister was their to save the day. she's in 1st and told him that since the teacher didn't believe in Santa she was going to get coal, haha! We have been dealing with her all year and we aren't the only parents. My son makes me make his lunch because she told him that if he didn't try everything on his plate he would be put on yellow(the do a board and the colors represent good and bad and the get prizes for getting good days, blue, green, yellow, orange, and then red(principles office)) which is ok but if he didn't like it the first time he tried it don't make him eat it again! She told his sister that she wasn't allowed to walk him to his classroom anymore that he was big enough to do it on his own, the way I see it, that's his sister and if they want to walk together who is she to tell them they can't! had a parent teacher conference and she was talking about the wrong kid for 10 minutes when I finally asked her "are we talking about my kid?", theres only 12 in his class!!! Several of us parents, the one's from this year and last year, have gone and talked to the school. Basically, she's the bankers daughter and they aren't getting rid of her. She was put in Pre-k so that the kindergarten teacher could fix them before they go into 1st. Last year over half the kids couldn't even write their names when they went into kindergarten! ugh... sorry rant over! |
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| FlyingJT - 2014-12-19 10:17 AM
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FlyingJT - 2014-12-19 9:56 AM
My sons teacher, he's in preK, told him that Santa was fake and the north pole was make believe!
What??? I would have been one ticked off momma at the school making sure they knew i was highly upset about that!!! That is crazy!!
oh, I was HOT!! Thank goodness his sister was their to save the day. she's in 1st and told him that since the teacher didn't believe in Santa she was going to get coal, haha! We have been dealing with her all year and we aren't the only parents. My son makes me make his lunch because she told him that if he didn't try everything on his plate he would be put on yellow (the do a board and the colors represent good and bad and the get prizes for getting good days, blue, green, yellow, orange, and then red (principles office ) ) which is ok but if he didn't like it the first time he tried it don't make him eat it again! She told his sister that she wasn't allowed to walk him to his classroom anymore that he was big enough to do it on his own, the way I see it, that's his sister and if they want to walk together who is she to tell them they can't! had a parent teacher conference and she was talking about the wrong kid for 10 minutes when I finally asked her "are we talking about my kid?", theres only 12 in his class!!! Several of us parents, the one's from this year and last year, have gone and talked to the school. Basically, she's the bankers daughter and they aren't getting rid of her. She was put in Pre-k so that the kindergarten teacher could fix them before they go into 1st. Last year over half the kids couldn't even write their names when they went into kindergarten! ugh... sorry rant over!
Oh i completely understand. My twins aren't school age yet (just made 1) but my nephew is in 3rd grade and my poor sister is having just as many problems with his teacher. Many parents (including her) have had conferences and everything else and nothing gets done. It's sad that schools allow teachers like that to teach especially when the children are so young and easily influinced. I could understand middle or high school but these kids are still so young! At least the school year is half way over now!! |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | My parents never really pushed the whole Santa thing on my brother and I. We had gifts from "Santa" but we were so little that we didn't care one way or the other who they came from. I don't remember ever being told Santa was fake or being devastated by it because I never fully believed to begin with.
I know the thing the OP is talking about and I read it too, and I thought the people had a point. It talks about how if one little kid gets like a PlayStation 4 from Santa when another little kid only gets a hat & mittens (because their parents don't have as much money) it would be hard for the "poor" little kid to understand why Santa didn't get them a fancy gift but their friend got one.
I guess I just have a hard time understanding it though because we weren't raised believing in Santa and neither were any of my friends so it was never an issue growing up. And all I wanted was stuff for my horses, so I didn't care about the fancy things my friends got.
I just don't think Santa is as big of an issue as people make it out to be.
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Location: SE Louisiana | FlyingJT - 2014-12-18 12:56 PM My sons teacher, he's in preK, told him that Santa was fake and the north pole was make believe!
YOU need to get that teacher fired for incompetence!!! Obviously he never heard of Sir William Edward Parry!! He has no business teaching children ANYTHING!!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Murphy - 2014-12-19 12:04 PM I'm just tired of having to be overly sensitive to everyone and everything. My feet are killing me from walking on eggshells all the time.
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | mruggles - 2014-12-18 2:25 PM Murphy - 2014-12-19 12:04 PM I'm just tired of having to be overly sensitive to everyone and everything. My feet are killing me from walking on eggshells all the time. im with ya murphy.................
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | It is really hard staying ahead of the kids these days anyway….they are soooo smart. Most just believe in Santa to “appease” their parents. I remember one Christmas when my boys were VERY young, I had wrapped Santa’s gifts in the same paper as ours….My youngest (Pre-K) caught it RIGHT away…..I had to make a quick story about how in the world could Santa deliver all those presents in ONE night…He had dropped theirs off last week for ME to wrap…..I don’t think he believed me……LOL
I also used to tell them (when their lists were long with lots of expensive things) that Santa sends me a bill after Christmas. He would send us a bill because we could "pay" for presents and that way he could give more to the poor kids....
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | LRQHS - 2014-12-19 1:26 PM
mruggles - 2014-12-18 2:25 PM Murphy - 2014-12-19 12:04 PM I'm just tired of having to be overly sensitive to everyone and everything. My feet are killing me from walking on eggshells all the time. im with ya murphy.................
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no...i was in vegas last week...............
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | mruggles - 2014-12-18 3:02 PM LRQHS - 2014-12-19 1:26 PM mruggles - 2014-12-18 2:25 PM Murphy - 2014-12-19 12:04 PM I'm just tired of having to be overly sensitive to everyone and everything. My feet are killing me from walking on eggshells all the time. im with ya murphy.................
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| NJJ - 2014-12-18 2:49 PM It is really hard staying ahead of the kids these days anyway….they are soooo smart. Most just believe in Santa to “appease” their parents. I remember one Christmas when my boys were VERY young, I had wrapped Santa’s gifts in the same paper as ours….My youngest (Pre-K) caught it RIGHT away…..I had to make a quick story about how in the world could Santa deliver all those presents in ONE night…He had dropped theirs off last week for ME to wrap…..I don’t think he believed me……LOL
I also used to tell them (when their lists were long with lots of expensive things) that Santa sends me a bill after Christmas. He would send us a bill because we could "pay" for presents and that way he could give more to the poor kids....
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Location: Oz, Kansas | My daughter busted me because she said santa & I had the same handwriting. After she no longer believed & before my son was too old to figure it out I quit wrapping gifts from santa & would just leave them under the tree. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | komet. - 2014-12-18 4:37 PM I'm surprised nobody has been busted for forgetting what they just wrapped and labeling it to the wrong kid..
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Location: Texas | we believed in santa 100% when we were little. Santa didnt wrap presents, they were left under the tree all set up and ready to play with. One year i noticed ALL the boxes were left behind (dad forgot to take out the trash). I caught it, asked some questions and figured it out. I wasnt devastated even though until that point i really believed. I was excited because i got to help with santa gifts the next year for my little sister.My son is right at that point where im not sure if he still believes or not but ill keep going with it. We did tell him santa couldnt make electronics one year when all he asked for was computers etc. He said "well that way yall wont have to spend a bunch of money for my presents." I almost cried lol. Anyway santa doesnt give electronics and we always get the big gifts. Santa aint takin my glory! |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | FlyingJT - 2014-12-18 1:17 PM
runnin.on.dreams - 2014-12-18 1:02 PM
FlyingJT - 2014-12-19 9:56 AM
My sons teacher, he's in preK, told him that Santa was fake and the north pole was make believe!
What??? I would have been one ticked off momma at the school making sure they knew i was highly upset about that!!! That is crazy!!
oh, I was HOT!! Thank goodness his sister was their to save the day. she's in 1st and told him that since the teacher didn't believe in Santa she was going to get coal, haha! We have been dealing with her all year and we aren't the only parents. My son makes me make his lunch because she told him that if he didn't try everything on his plate he would be put on yellow (the do a board and the colors represent good and bad and the get prizes for getting good days, blue, green, yellow, orange, and then red (principles office ) ) which is ok but if he didn't like it the first time he tried it don't make him eat it again! She told his sister that she wasn't allowed to walk him to his classroom anymore that he was big enough to do it on his own, the way I see it, that's his sister and if they want to walk together who is she to tell them they can't! had a parent teacher conference and she was talking about the wrong kid for 10 minutes when I finally asked her "are we talking about my kid?", theres only 12 in his class!!! Several of us parents, the one's from this year and last year, have gone and talked to the school. Basically, she's the bankers daughter and they aren't getting rid of her. She was put in Pre-k so that the kindergarten teacher could fix them before they go into 1st. Last year over half the kids couldn't even write their names when they went into kindergarten! ugh... sorry rant over!
The state of Arkansas requires parents to sign kids in and out of pre-school. They're not allowed to go in by themselves even if they wanted to. Then I walked mine into kindergarten until they were confident enough that they didn't want me to anymore. Some people are crazy. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | We've always had a budget limit for Santa gifts, they are limited to one thing, and the kids never questioned it. Even Santa's resources are not infinite.
This year, my 9 year old, who has figured out the Santa thing, asked for an iPad mini from Santa. (He's playing along for his sister) Since this is well over Santa's budget, he has to "donate" the difference from the money he earned working last summer and fall. His sister (shes 6) wanted a kindle fire, but she was afraid it would be too much (and it was), so she asked Santa for a zero-gravity lawn chair. LMAO |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | lookout hill - 2014-12-18 4:35 PM
My daughter busted me because she said santa & I had the same handwriting. After she no longer believed & before my son was too old to figure it out I quit wrapping gifts from santa & would just leave them under the tree.
We don't wrap Santa gifts. And the note he writes back to them when he visits is written with my left hand. Good grief, y'all, get with the program. haha |
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Location: LaBelle, Florida | My daughter is 10 and last year she busted me on the Tooth Fairy. My response was, "You don't beleive, you don't receive". The next tooth that came out, she made sure I knew she had put it on the night stand for the 'tooth fairy'.
She also mailed out her letter to Santa last week.
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Location: SE Louisiana | kasaj2000 - 2014-12-18 6:29 PM
My daughter is 10 and last year she busted me on the Tooth Fairy. My response was, "You don't beleive, you don't receive". The next tooth that came out, she made sure I knew she had put it on the night stand for the 'tooth fairy'.
She also mailed out her letter to Santa last week.
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I guess I'm one of those bad parents that never really did the whole "Santa" thing. I just always felt like it took away from the true meaning of Christmas. I always pushed it as Jesus' birthday. The kids got presents but they knew who they were from. We worked hard for what we had and I wasn't giving anyone else credit for it, lol. We didn't do much as far as gifts go either. We couldn't really afford to do too much back then. I sure wasn't about to go into debt trying to keep up with the Jones'. I guess it worked out, because all my kids know what Christmas is about and don't go crazy doing things for their own kids.
My kids were probably the one's spilling the beans about Santa in their kindergarten class, lol.
To each his own... Merry CHRISTmas everyone!
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Location: North Dakota | My parents did Santa. My mom went over and above. She mastered writing an entirely different way for labels and notes from Santa. Only once did I find a Christmas gift early. I was maybe 3 and it was a Christmas breyer. I was so little I didn't really grasp what happened. I was in maybe 4th or 5th grade when I overheard my parents talking about it and was not devistated but sorta sad. What helped was the fact that my sister is 5 years younger and she still believed. I LOVE messing with her so that was the greatest "prank"-so to speak, of all.
ETA- My sister found out the hard way. She would NOT shut up about getting a Wii so one day my mom blurted out that Santa wasn't real. Boy was that a painful car ride home! We then focused on the fact that St. Nicholas WAS a real person and that softened the blow a little.
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | FlyingJT - 2014-12-18 1:17 PM
runnin.on.dreams - 2014-12-18 1:02 PM
FlyingJT - 2014-12-19 9:56 AM
My sons teacher, he's in preK, told him that Santa was fake and the north pole was make believe!
What??? I would have been one ticked off momma at the school making sure they knew i was highly upset about that!!! That is crazy!!
oh, I was HOT!! Thank goodness his sister was their to save the day. she's in 1st and told him that since the teacher didn't believe in Santa she was going to get coal, haha! We have been dealing with her all year and we aren't the only parents. My son makes me make his lunch because she told him that if he didn't try everything on his plate he would be put on yellow (the do a board and the colors represent good and bad and the get prizes for getting good days, blue, green, yellow, orange, and then red (principles office ) ) which is ok but if he didn't like it the first time he tried it don't make him eat it again! She told his sister that she wasn't allowed to walk him to his classroom anymore that he was big enough to do it on his own, the way I see it, that's his sister and if they want to walk together who is she to tell them they can't! had a parent teacher conference and she was talking about the wrong kid for 10 minutes when I finally asked her "are we talking about my kid?", theres only 12 in his class!!! Several of us parents, the one's from this year and last year, have gone and talked to the school. Basically, she's the bankers daughter and they aren't getting rid of her. She was put in Pre-k so that the kindergarten teacher could fix them before they go into 1st. Last year over half the kids couldn't even write their names when they went into kindergarten! ugh... sorry rant over!
The first grader should have told her, "well, you aren't a *real* teacher. And if your daddy can believe that fantasy, us kids can believe anything we want." |
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Location: Never in one place long | I agree with this and would have never thought of it but looking back to when I was a kid, I wouldn't have been able to remember which gift came from who Santa or parents... I just remembered WHAT I got. lol. |
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| kwanatha - 2014-12-18 7:02 PM when we got old enough to question santa, my dad told us he is not a person he is a feeling in your heart
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | mruggles - 2014-12-19 11:30 AM
i cried harder when my dad told me he ran over the easter bunny.....than when i found out santa wasn't real..lol
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Location: Flat Rock,IL | Sorry to not mean to post something and leave, I started a new job the other day. Buti do see the meaning in that "quote', but on the other had, kids should know the true meaning of Christmas too. |
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| I saw this post on Facebook also. My first thought is that maybe some people will change their gifts from Santa, but most won't. In life there will always be people who have more than others and accepting that is a part of growing up. I was a kid who didn't get extravagant presents for Christmas or Birthdays. My kids don't either, because that is all I know. They don't expect it. I still hear adults talk about how disappointed they are in their Birthday/ Christmas gifts and I think how sad for them that they probably grew up receiving and always expecting the best of everything. Now that they are adults they aren't happy with simple. Nothing wrong with simple to get to what really matters .  |
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Location: In my own world | Three 4 Luck - 2014-12-19 11:32 AM mruggles - 2014-12-19 11:30 AM i cried harder when my dad told me he ran over the easter bunny.....than when i found out santa wasn't real..lol
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Location: on my horse | Three 4 Luck - 2014-12-18 5:12 PM
We've always had a budget limit for Santa gifts, they are limited to one thing, and the kids never questioned it. Even Santa's resources are not infinite.
This year, my 9 year old, who has figured out the Santa thing, asked for an iPad mini from Santa. (He's playing along for his sister) Since this is well over Santa's budget, he has to "donate" the difference from the money he earned working last summer and fall. His sister (shes 6) wanted a kindle fire, but she was afraid it would be too much (and it was), so she asked Santa for a zero-gravity lawn chair. LMAO
that is priceless! Zero gravity lawn chair lol although i must say those things are awesome! |
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Location: home for the winter...what a dumb idea | Never believed in Santa or the Easter bunny....oh I know the store of them but we were always told the real reason for those holidays. We never had money growing up and our Christmas gifts were bast on the 3 Wiseman gifts .....Something you need(gold given to Jesus parents for his offering at the time of cecircumcision )Something usefull(frankensenc for his burial) and something special(mur for a king). |
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Location: In my own little world | Santa was always the big "gift giver" when I was growing up. And that tradition continues with each of my siblings and our families and my oldest sister is 68 so it has gone on for years. My mother always told us as long as we believed there would always be a Santa. I'm in my 50's and by golly Santa still brings gifts to me every year! Growing up we never got new clothes or anything at the beginning of the school year. Anything we ever got new was always at Christmas. My mom shopped sales all year long because we didn't have a lot of money and she was able to buy all 4 of us some really nice things. My kids are now adults and they still "believe" as well and Santa arrives every year for them as well and always will as will be the tradition with their children. As long as I'm alive our largest gifts will follow tradition and will continue to be from Santa. This, along with many other things are all Christmas traditions in my family from reading the story of the birth of Jesus, to having a family Christmas program, to prepairing and eating a dinner on Christmas Eve that have been handed down and served in the family for 4 generations. I donate plenty at Christmastime and throughout the year for those less fortunate so I have no guilt in how we celebrate Christmas.
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Something to think about, when you are wrapping gifts that say from santa.