News Anchor Apologizes For Telling Viewers There Is No Santa

You think the PARENTS are outraged?  Can you imagine what kind of anger all pedophiles are feeling right now?

I’ve always told my children the truth and they were okay with it, I gave them a gift once a week for the whole month of December and we spent Christmas day at a homeless shelter!

My children are 1 & 2y.o.

“Santa” is bringing them: fake plastic food ($12), a plastic lawnmower ($35) and 2 snow sleds ( $15 for the 2).

In their grandparents’ house they’re getting pvc bibs (the kind that’s plastic & you can rinse the food off the crumb catcher) pj’s & MAYBE one of those toy kitchens.  They don’t get a whole bunch of toys cause they’re little. 

“But have no issues teaching them that a 2000-year-old Jewish, zombie carpenter is in the clouds watching them masturbate”.  

Right on, man.

My daughter is three. When she was first born my husband and I agreed we would never lie to her and destroy her trust in us. Then the flurry that was spoken of in this article came and we caved in to Santa. 

Everything about him we find really creepy but what made us cave was that all her cousins believe and eventually we would be ruining Christmas for one or all the kids when questions start flying. Now we figure ‘what the hell they are only kids once’.

We now will be giving her ONE gift (possibly two) from Santa that she asks him for and the rest are from mom and dad. He isn’t getting credit for the money we spend or the cool gifts she receives. 

Besides her understanding one day that mom and dad are shelling out all the cash, I think the blow won’t be to hard for her when she does realize Santa isn’t what she believes when he only has brought her a Barbie and some candy….At least I hope.

Wtf? There really isn’t a Santa!! No FUCKING way. I believe. 

As a kid who believed in the 3 Kings ( the epiphany & what not… comes with Catholicism & it’s from Spain that we get that…) someone telling you that _____ *insert belief* doesn’t exist is NOT a blow. It’s actually a CHALLENGE TO FIND THE GIFTS & SEE IF YOU’RE GETTING WHAT YOU WANT!

It’s ON mom & dad!

I tell my chitlans there is a Santa.  Then I tell them I am Santa It’s all true I am the giver of present’s in my household.  Santa lives in all of us,  At this very important time of year it is critical to keep that little boy or girl that lives deep inside of us alive and keep the gift of Santa alive.  I don’t know who originally dreamed the whole Santa thing up but he was a Marketing genius to say the least.

Ummm never mind. I should have had more coffee. When I first looked I thought you were talking to me. lmao. Ummm hello Big man nice to see you.

As usual, I think parents are overreacting. She should be fired because she said Santa isnt real? Allrighty then. The thing that pissed me off was her arrogant attitude. 

Origins of Santa Claus – I believe it was a combination of the Dutch ‘Sinterklaas’ and Coca-Cola.
My kids are double lucky – in my semi Dutch / semi English household we celebrate both Sinterklaas (today) and Santa Claus / Christmas. I do have to get very creative trying to tie everything into a believable story though… I tell them there are too many kids for Santa to be able to visit them all on the same day, so some children in different countries celebrate on different days. And because they are half Dutch half English, they get some of their presents on each day. In Holland that’s on 5th December and Sinterklaas comes over from his house in Madrid, Spain on a steamboat, with his white horse and now-PC-dubious ‘Black Pete’ helpers. We used to get told that if we weren’t good Sinterklaas would stuff us in a jute bag and take us back to Spain. How that hasn’t scarred me for life i’ll never know. We had to sit in the living room singing Sinterklaas songs, loudly, when it was time for the presents. They used to show up in a big bag at the front door, and somebody (usually a neighbour who was roped into the conspiracy) would knock on the door loudly – so loud that it sounded like the horse was coming through the frigging door. That always freaked me out, every year, even well into my twenties when keeping the folklore alive for my nieces and nephews.
Then on Christmas Day we don’t let them open all the gifs all at once – they get to open like one an hour or so; they play with the new toy, then when they get bored they get to open another. Keeps them out of trouble and mommy sane when already trying to deal with grandparents and great aunts and oven antics and whatnot.

And then this year, after i got all my stories straight and my boys believing and everything in order… my 4yo’s school fucked things up by having a Christmas fair and a Santa’s Grotto / Meet and Great the day before Sinterklaas. FFS.

My kids were never told about Santa, I dont want to give credit for my hard work to some old fat man. I work hard to save to get each of them something nice, no room for “santa gifts”!

 I agree with you – I didn’t raise my boys to believe in Santa either … I have to work hard to earn an honest living so I didn’t agree with giving “Santa” credit for shit.

On a secondary note –
I once made a similar Boo-Boo to what this news lady committed : Years ago while at the barbershop getting 3 haircuts (that I wished “Santa” had been paying for) – one for me,and my 2 boys ,I made the loud statement that I didn’t believe in teaching kids that Santa existed.I failed to notice that this one lady had her kid there for a haircut – I will never forget the look that lady gave me;If she could have done it legally,she would have killed me on the spot.

You have a “personal life” ?
I am so jealous …

That’s pretty sick Bryan … even for a Pagan.

You sound like a really good person.

My 9 year old is awake at that time, and watches the news.

I can’t believe all your guy’s kids don’t watch the news!

It’s like religion around here. Hell, the town my grandma lived in for awhile blew the whistle on the local grain elevator every time the local news casts came on.

“are what gifts we were given or gave”
I remember a lot of the gifts that I received as a child,and my parents always spared no expense for Christmas – I had a very unhappy childhood, but Christmas,and Thanksgiving were always really,really good Holidays for me.

My nine, almost ten (on Thursday) year old still believes in Santa. I’ll let her believe as long as she wants. My uncle’s friend looks exactly like Santa and he goes from house to house on Christmas Eve handing out presents the parents bought.

I have a feeling this will be the last year she believes. But then she’ll be in on the secret for her brother and cousins, and she’ll like that.

There are so many bad things in the world. Can’t we hold on to the little one’s naivete for just a little while? The world is so magical through their eyes!

That sounds really cool.
I LIKE THAT.

Yes, exactly.

Does your kid still believe in Santa though? 

I like the Santa Possession thing. Once a year Santa inhabits my body and we put presents under the tree like in The Exorcist, but with less swearing. This is why I don’t have children. They would turn out to be serial killers.

 I just watched the video – I wasn’t going to look at it,but I wanted to see what you were talking about so I viewed it.I didn’t see any “arrogant attitude”. I liked the way the lady was conducting herself … she was having a good time doing her job,and apparently failed to think about what she was saying – as far as how a lot of people were going to choose to be offended by her words.I bet she didn’t see the boulders coming down on her head till she was already buried.

I hit reply, and instead of writing, drooled for about 2 minutes. Mission accomplished im sure

My son is 4 I told him about Santa but neglected to tell him about Jesus. He has mentioned Jesus in the past because his grandmother and my wife have told him he lives in the clouds that loves and watches over us. I just said son remember when we were on the plane and in the clouds did you see a man up there looking down at everyone? No of course not he would have gotten sucked into the engine.

Yeah, I don’t understand the people who buy their toddlers a shit load of toys.  Because of two slightly older toddlers in the family, we’ve inherited a steady stream of toys – singing toys, talking toys, moving toys, blinking toys… and Mina’s favorite toys are the basket to a fruit basket that we received last year, magnets and socks.  Man, does she get excited by some socks.  

I found myself thinking just yesterday about how Santa is going to play out with Mina.  I’d just assume let her come to her own conclusions, but my husband is a bit of a romantic who might like to enhance the wonder of the season with the Santa story.  I guess we’ll see.  

My mother tried to convince me for years that on a very special night, a fat white stranger was given the okay to come into our house while we were sleeping, eat cookies, and leave presents he obviously either stole or were counter-fit because Nintendos aren’t made of wood.

All of her magical reasoning fell on death ears though; even if santa a man with millions of dollars worth of presents was not mugged in our neighborhood, he certainly would not use the same wrapping paper that my mother had in her closet.   I know I was born a skeptic, but that was when I realized my mother like every other adult, would lie to me about lying to me. 

Merry Christmas!

I think it’s odd parents don’t watch the news with their kids. It’s how I was raised.

It’s a teeny tiny town in ND. The news coincides with their “lunch” whistles or whatever.

I’ve been teaching my kids about Santa. I know its creepy but to them (2 & 4), it’s exciting. I know they will figure it out eventually but I figure it will go on for at least a few years. No harm, no foul.

I might get some flack for this but I don’t understand how people say, ‘I work too hard for some one else to get the credit’. WOW. That makes no sense to me. Children that are young enough to still believe probably don’t understand the value of a dollar or how hard you had to work for it. It’s the same reason your mom might not have pointed out to you what a deadbeat your father was because she knew that one day you’d figure it out for yourself and love her even more for doing it all by herself and keeping it classy.

Yea I’ll be sure to do that. *rolls eyes back and fourth

9 is kinda old for believing in Santa though. I was in a training bra and sprouting pubes then. 

Babies are boring. I’m spending the money on neat shit for my 8 year old nephew that I can play with too. The little brother, a 10-month-old, will be getting some clothes and toddler snacks. 

My xmas phrase to my boys when they were little was “when you stop believing in him, he stops coming”, what a crock of shit I spewed to them in the name of parenting! I have 2 step-kids now and the whole idea of santa just irritates me. One is 11 and the other is 9. The 11 year old has told us that she does NOT believe in santa but she does when it’s convenient which really irritates me. She lost a gift from last year and when I said you need to find it because it was an expensive gift, she said well you didn’t pay for it, it was from santa. Ohhhhhh really, the guy you don’t believe in???? This year her list is filled with the most expensive things that she can think of and she expects it because “santa” is bringing it. I said well it’s all very expensive and you aren’t responsible to care for that stuff since you weren’t able to care for last years gifts, she said santa will bring it. He always does. Uh, not this year. One big gift and I’m done. She also mentioned that she knows her little bother doesn’t believe in santa but she wasn’t going to tell him anything. Yea right! They both know but use it to get whatever they can this time of the year.
By the way, I’m not a grinch. I don’t mind christmas but the commercialism of the holiday pisses me off. It’s not about family, it’s about who gets the most.

and good for you! he’ll be 30 reminiscing how awesome it was to wake up to gifts under the tree or gifts in his special spot – and think damn, that was awesome! because i still do lol

It’s not really Christmas until Morbid puts up the black tree.

*ahem* She. He is the baby.

You are such a bummer, dude!

I have a black tree too. You don’t notice so much that it’s black as you notice how much all the sparkly stuff on it pops out.

Yeah, I never really believed, though I wanted to. Found the gifts a few times as well.

My kids’ belief in Santa simply fizzled out I think.  I don’t remember exactly when it happened.  It was like one year they believed (kinda) and the next he wasn’t really mentioned again. 

I knew there was no Santa once it occurred to me that he kept bringing me peppermint candy canes.  I fucking HATE candy canes and if the dude is supposed to know what we want then he would have been shoving tiny bottles of Jack in my stocking.  

*poke* *poke* *poke* *poke* *pokeypokepoke*

Josephine paddle?

*googles*

Oh.

I’ll be in my bunk…

There’s NO SANTA??!! Darn it, I wasted a lot of years being angry at him for not stopping at OUR house!

Seriously though, Santa was sort of like a family joke. We all pretended he was real. When the kids got old enough to explain, I told them some mushy stuff about the ” spirit of giving”  and a history lesson about the origins of Santa Claus. They decided that all of the mall Santa’s were helper angels and maybe Santa could be real…except why is his handwriting like Mommy’s? And why doesn’t he give better presents to us? ( we were poor but creative in those days)

Although, I must say, knowing how I confirmed his non-exsistence, I have always gone out of my way to write weird and sloppy on the tags as not to ruin the experience.

I know but every year it gets a bit better. I told my daughter that Santa’s bringing presents (as I prentended to talk on a plastic phone) & her eyes lit up & she was like: “Oh wow! Pwesents! Ho ho ho Mewwy Chwismas!”

So in your house it’s your kid not the dryer that someone steals one sock?

I was thinking of those celebrities with kids that buy their kids a whole bunch of brand new expensive clothing/toys. I wonder if they give it to the Salvation Army. Cause if they do, I’d LOVE to shop in that particular Sal. Ar. they donate their toys & clothes to.

Part of our living in our society is keeping the Santa Claus lie alive. It’s a lie we’ve more or less gone along with.

 I missed the word ‘gifts’ at first. Yikes! Really need to slow down and read,

you can poke me anytime.. but not on facebook

isnt this site proof enough of good and evil? i mean how can you debunk the lord when ur sites success is based off demons in hell? thats what i find funny. reason christian parents dont want their kids believin in that fat bastard is cause hes just yet another symbol n figure of satan, god of this shitty world, which explains why you always got a story to cover. think bout it. by the way zombies eat human flesh n r mindless, Christ isnt undead, hes eternal dawg.  

The door. Do not let it hit you on the ass.

Whats wrong with thinking there is magic? The real world can be cold and, I see nothing wrong with one a childhood innocent story like Santa being told.  People always complain about how kids are trying to grow up fast but, if want to wake them up to the dryness of reality as soon as possible.