On the flip side of this question....

I was reading the last post and it just dawned on me to share that my husband and I never started the Santa Clause story with our kids (nor did we tell them there was a tooth fairy or Easter bunny - but they did receive xmas gifts, baskets and money from their parents) - in my heart I just couldn't live with the fact that I had lied to my children to only see their little hearts be broken when they found out the truth.

I wanted my children to know that they could always trust me and their father... to know we would never lie to them.

And if I think back to it I guess the entire reason behind not introducing fairy tells into our children life was due to the fact that I the "big sister" will never be able to forget the heart-breaking look on my six year old brother's face the night he realized Santa was not coming nor was he real... I so hated having to hold his trembling little body in the darkness of his empty room that sad Christmas Eve night as he cried himself to sleep (and) and I will always remember how angry this little boy was at the parents he had trusted when he realized they had lied to him.

PeAcE