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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 429366" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="color: darkslateblue">We also are not affiliated with any specific religion. Both H and I were raised Catholic and I suppose it's natural that we celebrated Christian holidays, however, we did research other holidays so we and my daughters were aware of other religious cultures out there. And I did raise them believing in the Easter bunny, tooth fairy and Santa. I believe that those are not lies, but fantasy, bringing light and fun into our lives - it's storytelling and harmless. As the kids grow, they figure it out themselves and that is when we had a discussion about what it means to believe in such things that bring us joy and is fun. I don't believe it has to be a traumatic thing for kids nor do I believe these things are on the same level as lying to get out of trouble or to deceive another. I still have all the letters and notes my girls wrote to the Easter bunny, the tooth fairy and santa. It's all in fun and in my opinion harmless. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #483d8b">As an aside, my easy child has a very well adjusted sense of her own individual spirituality assigning herself to particular religious sect, however, difficult child still struggles with this. Actually, she's not strugging with it - she doesn't even think about it. She used to think she leaned toward pagan beliefs but now she says she doesn't believe in anything because they all talk about death too much - lol!!</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #483d8b">Sorry for the highjack P-nut!</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 429366, member: 2211"] [COLOR=darkslateblue]We also are not affiliated with any specific religion. Both H and I were raised Catholic and I suppose it's natural that we celebrated Christian holidays, however, we did research other holidays so we and my daughters were aware of other religious cultures out there. And I did raise them believing in the Easter bunny, tooth fairy and Santa. I believe that those are not lies, but fantasy, bringing light and fun into our lives - it's storytelling and harmless. As the kids grow, they figure it out themselves and that is when we had a discussion about what it means to believe in such things that bring us joy and is fun. I don't believe it has to be a traumatic thing for kids nor do I believe these things are on the same level as lying to get out of trouble or to deceive another. I still have all the letters and notes my girls wrote to the Easter bunny, the tooth fairy and santa. It's all in fun and in my opinion harmless. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#483d8b][/COLOR] [COLOR=#483d8b]As an aside, my easy child has a very well adjusted sense of her own individual spirituality assigning herself to particular religious sect, however, difficult child still struggles with this. Actually, she's not strugging with it - she doesn't even think about it. She used to think she leaned toward pagan beliefs but now she says she doesn't believe in anything because they all talk about death too much - lol!![/COLOR] [COLOR=#483d8b][/COLOR] [COLOR=#483d8b]Sorry for the highjack P-nut![/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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