(September 7, 2015 at 9:19 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: My siblings and I were all taught about Santa, and the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy lol. I don't think it's "wrong" or anything, but I definitely don't plan on teaching my kids. I don't want them to get disappointed or upset with me for "lying" to them when they find out the truth lol.
You do not need the quotation marks around the word "lying." Unless you believed in Santa yourself, telling your children that Santa is real fits the standard definition of the word perfectly.
See:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini.../lie#lie-2
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ll#lying-2
It might be that you are so used to people lying about this that you feel like it must be something other than lying. It isn't.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
