now that the first day of christmas is over i feel pretty good weighing in on the “what do you tell your kids about santa” situation. im going to tell owen jr “i dont know” and use it as a learning experience for figuring out something society wide and mythological for yourself.
a big part of our theory of children here comes from steiner, so, on one hand the magic of childhood thing and kids living in a somewhat imaginary world and experiencing things on those terms is relatively central, yet i also am not comfortable “straight up lying”, to be harsh.
therefore i am extremely confident in this approach. told my wife to do whatever she wants. for the record i used to work around kids and this was the approach i took if they asked about certain ancient stories or mythology, in certain situations, if it was prudent to do that.
after a while i did just start telling kids when i thought things were real though. yeah kid fairies are real. tell ur parents i said that idc im not getting fired
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