Comments | raining_peace: Damn Easter Bunny

raining_peace

Damn Easter Bunny

Apr 04, 2007 19:44

Ugh, now that my kids are getting older and interacting with more kids their own age...going to school, etc. Easter, Christmas, and losing baby teeth has become a huge pain in the ass. I WILL NOT encourage my children to lie...I WILL NOT tell my children that the fact that the Easter bunny is just a story is "our little secret"... and I don't care ( Read more... )

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xnaivetex April 5 2007, 17:56:01 UTC

I'd be really pissed off if your not wanting it for your child ended up wrecking my wanting it for my own. If you think your daughter is old enough and you don't want her to think it's real, tell her that other people believe what they want and to not tell them.

And btw - my son knows Santa, and the Easter bunny, and zomg, he still knows that the truth is good. I hate judgements about petty things.

raining_peace April 5 2007, 22:58:11 UTC

I didn't mean to sound as if I were passing judgement on parents who want their children to believe in Santa and the Easter bunny. I'm really not, I understand that a lot of parents want these things for their children, and I understand why. I had been perseverating on this topic all day yesterday, and just wrote this as a way to vent my feelings as I could tell my husband was deeply annoyed at me talking about it constantly for hours. It's often difficult for me to express my feelings in an appropriate way when I'm upset or perseverating ( ... )

raining_peace April 5 2007, 22:58:30 UTC

I'm really concerned that eventually one of my kids is going to get in trouble for saying something that they felt was helpful, which turned out to hurt somebody. I grew up not believing in any of these things, and to tell you the truth...I did feel like I missed out on something. When my little brother was young, I told my mom that I felt kind of left out of the fun, so she decided to tell my brother (Ryan) that Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy were real. When he was in grade 1, he found out the truth from an older boy, who told him because he wanted to make him feel bad (the kid had been bullying him since the year before). Ryan got really angry at my parents for "lying" to him about Santa. He went to school and told all of the kids in his class that their parents were lying to them and that Santa wasn't real. He didn't do it because he wanted to hurt the kids' feelings, he did it because he genuinely believed that he'd been lied to and that the other kids deserved to know the truth. Ryan got into a lot of trouble with ( ... )