Anti-Santa News Anchor

LDYGTR13 · December 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_anti-santa-news-anchor?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:cdb0a3f3-274f-4663-8515-95b61fb424b9Post:85ff4601-59ae-495a-b567-ad16743d2bb3">Re: Anti-Santa News Anchor</a>:
[QUOTE]I remember getting in trouble in first grade because I found out from my older brother that Santa wasn't real and I told everyone at school.
Posted by MeganLindsay5685[/QUOTE]
I remember the bitchy girl who told me santa wasn't real. I didn't believe her. I went home crying to my mom saying that everyone was saying Santa wasn't real. She said she was surprised I still believed it.

MAGIC IS IMPORTANT TO KIDS - MEL IS RIGHT!

LDYGTR13 · December 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_anti-santa-news-anchor?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:cdb0a3f3-274f-4663-8515-95b61fb424b9Post:0adff465-ea70-4d3a-a4d3-527a19f5b4bf">Re: Anti-Santa News Anchor</a>:
[QUOTE]LDY your presents from Santa weren't wrapped?
Posted by adamar15[/QUOTE]
Nope!! They were set out at the tree the Christmas morning. My brother and I would sneak down to see what Santa left at about 3am and get all excited, but we couldn't touch anything b/c if they were moved Santa would take them back. We'd go back to bed and be really excited and then have to fake surprise the next morning.

AllAboutTheBenjamin · December 2011

Our Santa gifts weren't wrapped either.

...We still get Santa gifts, in my family. My youngest sister is 17, but my mom doesn't care. She still gets each of us gifts and Santa gifts. Ben and my BIL get Santa gifts too.

lyndausvi · December 2011

Santa never wrapped presents in our home either. Everything was out of the boxes, put together and/or already had batteries. Santa was a busy man at our house with 4 kids around. Santa even knew exactly which zone we all had. Boy he was so smart.

ski2play · December 2011

"There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus." - Bob Phillips

Seemed fitting, that is all

kcscejal · December 2011

Our presents from Santa weren''t wrapped either. They would all just be put out with our stocking, and they were the only presents we were allowed to mess with before breakfast. My parents still do Santa presents, and I still get up in the middle of the night to sneak a peak at what they are. My parents would go all out too. Leave sleigh tracks in the snow, write us notes, ring little bells after we were in bed. I can't wait to have fun with Santa with my own kids.

graysquirrel · December 2011

I never believed in Santa. My parents did not feel that it was right to lie to me about it. My mother had a traumatic experience when we learned the truth and didn't want that to happen to me.

I will not tell my children that there is one. I don't understand why people think it is cute to lie to their children. Why is it ok to do that for funzies and not other lies? If I told my kids all kinds of other things that were not true it would probably be considered sick. Lying to someone, getting their hopes up, and having a good ole time with it is wrong in my book and sets children up for other mistrusts. I give props to the anchor for having the guts to tell the truth on the news. That doesn't happen all the time.

The Mel and Todd Show · December 2011

Here is a list of things I lie to my kids about because I hope to foster a relationship built upon lies and deception. I am a fuccking monster:

1) Costco sells only potatoes. That's why you can't go there.
2) An elf shows up and creates mischief in our home every single day between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
3) There are fairies in the holly.
4) Tooth Fairy
5) Easter Bunny
6) Every single living creature is entitled to no less than four un-birthdays per year.
7) Your computer is named Karen, and she can talk to you. She's very good at math and loves helping you with your homework.
8) The car doesn't start if you don't buckle your seat belt.
9) You are a really talented songwriter. Please sing "Vampire Lake" again.
10) There is a Santa Claus.

adamar15 · December 2011

Mel, can I be one of your kids please?

The Mel and Todd Show · December 2011

Yes. But I will, apparently, RUIN your life.

adamar15 · December 2011

I can accept a ruined life if I can have un-birthdays and a computer named Karen.

The Mel and Todd Show · December 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_anti-santa-news-anchor?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:cdb0a3f3-274f-4663-8515-95b61fb424b9Post:54207e89-f6ed-4d92-9f45-148ff13d1aa3">Re: Anti-Santa News Anchor</a>:
[QUOTE]Mel, what's an un-birthday?
Posted by djhar[/QUOTE]

It's just any day that's not your birthday. You get woken up with a cake and balloons and a present. We have them for the kids, the adults, and the pets.

[Deleted User] · December 2011

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[QUOTE]I believed in Santa, desperately, until I was 11. I had a friend who felt the same way I did, so this helped. We had all sorts of theories and stuff about how he pulled this off, and absolutely refused to accept the truth. I have every intention of having Santa for my children, because to me, Santa is the "spirit" of Christmas, those magical things that happen "just because". Two years ago, I did a Christmas collection for a student I was tutoring who suddenly became homeless. A few facebook messages later, I had $600 in presents, 2 weeks rent at a hotel, and a full Christmas dinner to bring them on Christmas Eve. To me, that's "santa"
Posted by krizzo17[/QUOTE]

This exactly! When I was in fourth grade, I still believed in Santa and other kids were telling me he didn't exist and I was getting upset, and my favorite teacher pulled me aside and told me that even if Santa-the-person didn't exist, Santa-the-spirit-of-Christmas did. That made me feel better.

The Mel and Todd Show · December 2011

A kid at school told Johnny that Santa is actually his parents. He said "yea, like my mom has time to fly all over the world." Magic. He has it.

lyndausvi · December 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_anti-santa-news-anchor?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:cdb0a3f3-274f-4663-8515-95b61fb424b9Post:448affc0-e8dd-43d3-a596-325acb532610">Re: Anti-Santa News Anchor</a>:
[QUOTE]A kid at school told Johnny that Santa is actually his parents. He said "yea, like my mom has time to fly all over the world." Magic. He has it.
Posted by The Mel and Todd Show[/QUOTE]

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eorea · December 2011

I wish I had thought of telling my daughter our computer was really named Karen. Now she wouldn't believe me though.

I do move her toys sometimes when she is at school so she can believe they move when she isn't looking like in Toy Story.

[Deleted User] · December 2011

Also, Mel, un-birthdays sound like the most fun, unique thing ever, and I LOVE it.

dumdumfroggie · December 2011

"A very merry un-birthday..."

Now that song is stuck in my head.

RamonaFlowers · December 2011

How long did you believe in Santa?
I think I was in like 2nd or 3rd grade.

How did you find out he wasn't real?
It was never a real discussion with my parents or some traumatic discovery ... I think I just overheard older kids in school talking about it, and said something to my mom like "Hey, I heard a 5th grader say Santa isn't real", and she kind of gave me some explanation about Santa not really bringing the presents, but the spirit of Santa/St. Nicholas being real and that's what reminded people to be loving and generous at Christmas time.

And of course, I got told to keep my mouth shut to my younger siblings. My youngest brother is just starting to outgrow Santa now, but my nieces are just starting to be old enough to "understand" it, so I still get to keep up the Santa act for a few more years

Are there any people out there who won't be raising their kids to believe in Santa? If so, why not?

I can't imagine not teaching my kids about Santa. I was raised Catholic, and I never confused Santa with Jesus (Maybe it's because being Catholic, I got exposed to the concept of the Saints?). Santa was just a fun part of Christmas. Every year like a week or 2 before Christmas, Santa (Who sounded an awful lot like Grandpa), would call me and my siblings on the phone and ask us if we were excited about baking cookies/decorating the tree/whatever Christmas activity we were planning on doing that day. It was fun.

I think as long as you're keeping your kids "grounded" and teaching them remember the true meaning of Christmas (Not necessarily the "Jesus" message, but the whole "Peace on Earth and good will toward's man" thing), I don't think there's real harm in letting them believe in Santa. I kind of view it on the same level as letting your kids think that the guy in the mouse suit at Disney World is really Mickey Mouse.

mica178 · December 2011

I want to be Mel's kid too. I'm already ruined, but I'd like a little more Mel fun.

[Deleted User] · December 2011

Santa never wrapped our presents. They were set in front of the TV with the stockings. If us kids got up before the parents, then we could go out Christmas morning and play with our Santa gifts and look through our stockings, but we had to wait for them for the other gifts.

I never knew people were so adamant about Santa being this horrific lie. It makes me sad that people don't like to make up such stories and put faith in magic.

mica178 · December 2011

Oh, and I was 5 but almost 6 when I found out about Santa. I had a friend who was older than me by 4 years, and in the span of a year she both broke my innocence about Santa and the birds and the bees. I was one worldly little kid.

My parents refused to believe that we didn't believe in Santa and continued to pretend about it until I was 11 or so.

mkrupar · December 2011

I want Mel to be my mom!!!

I remember figuring out santa wasn't real when we went out of town to NJ one year for Christmas. I was worried about Santa being able to find us and dad told me that maybe Santa would come early so he wouldn't lose us. Christmas was on a Saturday. Santa came on a Tuesday. It was cool, but it kind of sucked at the same time because I didn't have much to open on Christmas day. I kinda figured at that point that Dad was Santa.

I was not, however, heartbroken, or ruined because my parents "lied" to me about Santa. He was magical and offered an awesome way to celebrate the holidays. Now we just celebrate differently, but it's still just as fun. Lucas's mom still sends us gifts from Santa.

Oh and the next year was the first year we were allowed to open our presents on Christmas Eve. I was the youngest, and still holding on, so once that can was blown, dad said screw it. Like Lynda's family we'd go to midnight mass, then come home and open presents.

Santa gifts were always wrapped.

sessionswedding · December 2011

I was a precocious kid. I usually got up in the middle of the night when I was like 4 and 5 to sneak into the living room and eat the cookies we left out for Santa. Because I knew he wasn't real THEN. Lol.

Honestly though, kids who still believe in Santa should be in bed by 9:40. And even if you don't buy that, the ENTIRE STORY was on the premise that mall Santas went to a Santa School where they were trained to be Santas and taught how to keep kids' expectations low because their parents are having economic troubles. So if you hadn't gotten enough clues by that point to send the kids on to bed, you weren't gonna get it.

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