Parents should tell their kids about Santa Claus and have them believe in Santa because it’s what makes Christmas such a fun and exciting holiday. Santa motivates kids to be good all year in order to get their name on the Nice List and get presents under the Christmas tree while staying off the Naughty List and getting only a lump of coal in their stocking Christmas morning. When you’re a kid you wait for months for that one morning a year that you get up super early, run to your parents room to wake them up and then bolt to the Christmas tree to see all the presents that Santa left you overnight while you were sleeping. Kids believing in people like Santa is what makes a childhood so great. If kids didn’t believe in Santa, Christmas wouldn’t stand out from all the other holidays in the year. Christmas time and Santa is what makes winter so many people’s favorite time of the year. If kids were told the truth about Santa Claus then they wouldn’t want to do all the other things that makes Christmas the most wonderful time of the year like putting up the Christmas tree, making cookies and putting up lights outside the house. Santa is what makes Christmas different from all the other holidays like Easter, Valentine’s Day and Thanksgiving. Not believing in Santa Claus would make Christmas just like any other holiday in the year, and it would be one less magical person to believe in. Parents should tell their kids about Santa and have them believe in him because it what make being a kid so enjoyable, without him Christmas just wouldn’t be the same for anyone else.

On only one night a year is it acceptable for an old man wearing all red to clamber down chimneys everywhere, leaving presents for children for the minor charge of milk and cookies. Besides the questionable logic behind him, there are several moral objections to the jolly ol’ man. First, Santa Claus encourages parents to lie to their children. Santa is a made-up figure, and he only exists through the stories told to children. While there is nothing wrong with storytelling, the story of Santa Claus is morally degrading because children come to accept it as fact. Between the lies told by their parents and the marketing of mass media, most children have no reason to believe that Santa doesn’t exist. While the idea that Santa can grant any wish may seem fantastical and harmless, it only prolongs the feeling of crushing reality when it comes out years later that Santa is fictional. This can have a crushing emotional impact on some children and forces many to question if anything their parents tell them is true. Second, Santa promotes the idea that good deeds are rewarded with tangible outcomes. According to legend, good children are put on the Nice List and have all their wishes granted, while bad children are put on the Naughty List, only to receive coal on Christmas morning. Santa encourages the idea that children should be good because if they’re bad, they won’t get the new toys they’ve been dreaming about all year. The story of Santa Claus isn’t going to stop spreading anytime soon. However, parents should at least consider the impacts of telling this myth to their children.