Why Didn’t Santa Turn our Water Back On?
It seems like allowing my future kids to believe in Santa has bigger implications than I thought
I accidentally crushed a classmate’s dream when I was in first grade.
My memory is hazy, (we’re talking over twenty years ago, bare with me). I can only assume that the context was that we were coming up on the holidays and we must have been doing some sort of classroom activity oriented towards Christmas.
One of my classmates and I were talking and she was talking about how excited she was for Christmas. Understandable, as I was always a big Christmas person myself. But somewhere in the conversation, she mentioned something that threw me off completely:
“I’m pretty sure Santa’s gonna get me this! What are you asking Santa for?”
Here’s the thing. I was a kid that wasn’t raised with the belief that Santa Claus is a real, living human being. In my mind, he was as ‘real’ as Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman, Cupid, the Easter Bunny, etc. Santa was presented to me as “Oh, another Christmas thing! It’s just for fun!” What I didn’t realize is that not everyone felt this way. In fact, many kids my age truly believed that Santa Claus was not only 100% real but he was really the person giving them all their presents. Still…
