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It was tradition that had Highfill and her husband bringing Santa Claus into their Christmas celebrations with their sons to begin with, echoing as parents what their parents had done for them. She hadn't thought about how it would conflict with the parenting lessons they were trying to impart to the boys, that telling the truth was paramount.
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Keep Santa, but get rid of the concept of naughty and nice “In Santa's eyes, you’re either ‘naughty’ or ‘nice.’ This doesn’t capture the complexity of humans, what they’re really like.
In 2007, David Shankbone expanded the Santa Claus article with a well-sourced, international criticism section. He was one of the main editors who argued for telling the truth about Santa's mythical nature, and per the lead guideline, he also outlined the major controversies. These actions made him unpopular with a few editors.
When Bianca LeRoux's daughter, Lily, learned the truth about Santa after catching her mom sneaking money under her pillow "from the Tooth Fairy," the Long Island, N.Y. mom of two was devastated.
In the wake of criticism hurled at Larry Jefferson's stint as Santa Claus in the Mall of America's Santa Experience during December 2016, [3] Daniel Kibblesmith, staff writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, had announced on his Twitter account that he and his then-fiancée now wife, [4] Jennifer Wright, "[had] decided our future child will only know about Black Santa.
What to tell a curious child? It’s as much a dilemma today as it was more than a century ago.