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Our kids (4 and 6) have gotten really close to our new neighbor’s kids, who are 5-year-old twins. The family is Jewish, and we are big Santa people at my house. Obviously they are not!
None of them have said anything about Santa not being real (I think their parents are careful about that), but would it be incredibly rude to ask their parents to tell their kids to play along a bit? I just don’t want our kids to say “What did Santa bring you?” and to hear “Nothing”; I think it would be confusing and upsetting for them. But I don’t want to be rude or insensitive.
—Jingle Bells
Dear Jingle Bells,
No. No. No. Absolutely not. Do. Not. Do. This. It would be extremely rude, also anti-Semitic, also if you don’t listen to me and do this anyway and their parents reasonably freak out at you, please tell them that you contacted a parenting advice columnist named Nicole Cliffe and she said not to do it but you did it anyway and she told you this is what would happen.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/12/becoming-own-mother-parenting-daughter-care-and-feeding.html
None of them have said anything about Santa not being real (I think their parents are careful about that), but would it be incredibly rude to ask their parents to tell their kids to play along a bit? I just don’t want our kids to say “What did Santa bring you?” and to hear “Nothing”; I think it would be confusing and upsetting for them. But I don’t want to be rude or insensitive.
—Jingle Bells
Dear Jingle Bells,
No. No. No. Absolutely not. Do. Not. Do. This. It would be extremely rude, also anti-Semitic, also if you don’t listen to me and do this anyway and their parents reasonably freak out at you, please tell them that you contacted a parenting advice columnist named Nicole Cliffe and she said not to do it but you did it anyway and she told you this is what would happen.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/12/becoming-own-mother-parenting-daughter-care-and-feeding.html