Do you tell your children that their Christmas gift came from Santa Claus?

My children are grown but yes, they were told about Santa and they did believe that they did get some gifts from him. They also knew about the real meaning of Christmas.

We do tell our children that some of their presents come from Santa. My husband and I were both told that as well. Although, I do feel like I'm telling a lie to my children, it's all in fun and to make the holiday more enjoyable for them.

I know I shouldn't respond because I am neither a Christian nor a parent but I must. The way most families celebrate Christmas it has nothing to do with Jesus the man. But it does have something to do with His vision of a world of peace.Santa Claus is commerical true but the feeling behind him is love. So of course the religious part of Christmas is buried but love behind Christmas isn't.

My children are able to differentiate between the religious aspect of Christmas and the Christmas traditions involving Christmas trees, Yule logs, Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus, etc. The majority of gifts in our family are from family and friends. We have requested that Santa leaves one or two smaller gifts as a reminder that he's not the loot bringer, and that the focus should be on family - both the Holy Family and our family. So far, Santa has complied with our wishes.

Last Christmas, the thing I told my nephew was the gift came from his grandparents and Santa Claus delivered it without him noticing it. My nephew is two years old. We just introduced him to Santa Claus.

While I am a Christian, I believe that one should always try to serve the interests of Truth above all other concerns. I have absolutely no reason to believe that Jesus was born on December 25th. Neither does anyone else. The date is not given in the bible. Some people might believe they can infer the date of Jesus' birth from the date of John the Baptist. John's father was Zacharias who was of the "course" of Abia. A "course" was a schedule set by King David (by God's guidance) by which the sons of Aaron were divided into 24 groups, each of which would have a turn staffing the Temple of the Lord. Each "family" would serve for a week. Abijah's family's turn would be the second week of the third month. He sires his son (or his wife conceives) after he returns from his service. Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit during the sixth month of Elisabeth's pregnancy. This puts Jesus' conception in the month of Kislev (Nov-Dec). Therefor, unless Mary's pregnancy was unreasonably long, Jesus was not born on Dec 25th. Apparently, he would have been born after the Feast of Tabernacles or in September - October time frame. However all of this requires some math and introspection of scripture. That makes it hard to discover the date of Jesus' birth. Therefore, assuming God would want to clearly communicate what was important to him, we should be able to make a reasonable conclusion with less effort. God did not consider recording the date of Jesus' birth particularly important. None of the Apostles who's gospels we have in our current bible specify a date of Jesus' birth. If Celebrating this day were important to God, you would have thought that he would have spelled it out somewhere. Therefore, the simplest conclusion seems to be that the birth of Jesus isn't something of great importance to God. What is important is paying attention to how Jesus lived his life, not obsessing over a date on the calendar. So, if the rest of the world wants to Celebrate Christmas and postulate a mystical Santa Clause delivering presents to good children on Dec 25th, God most likely isn't troubled by this. -- Now, I said that bit about Truthfulness. Santa Clause isn't true in a strict physical sense. In an abstract sense, Santa Clause is a fanciful childhood fiction which has a certain power to captivate Adults into a pretense of elves, reindeer, and mystical present delivery services. To some extent, then, the phenomenon of Christmas and Santa Clause is real on one level or another. Yes, there is a Santa Clause and there is magic in Christmas. However, presenting Santa Clause as a real physical person is sort of a moral dilemma. So, to minimize the friction between strict truth and childhood joy, I have postulated that each child only gets one present labeled as "from Santa." My job as a parent is listen to this "Santa" motif in my head and label one present as a manifestation of the miracle of Christmas magic. The rest come from my wife and I. We even deliver presents to our friends to spare needless workload on "Santa." The magic of Santa and Christmas, then, would be that force which compromises my tendency to be strictly truthful with my child. And, the eventual point in time when my child understands the impossibility of a real physical Santa represents a turning point in their maturation towards adulthood.

I've always been honest to my kids. I never brought them out to believe that Santa Claus is real. Santa Claus is just a myth so I told them what is truth and I also never misled them into thinking that it is Santa who is giving them the gifts. I think credit should go to whoever deserves it. It is God who is the source of all the blessings so I always emphasize to my kids that it is I and my hubby who gave them the gifts but the provisions came from no other one but God. Moreover, instead of exposing my kids to Santa Claus, I am exposing them to Jesus Christ and His saving grace.

Since I grew up with this belief that Santa Claus visits us during Christmas which we are celebrating Jesus Christ's birthday,I also shared that happy feeling with my kids and now my grown up children shares it with their children too.They will eventually discover who Santa Claus is.The way I discovered who played our Santa Claus when we were young.I believe it is a myth that were passed through generation.

I tell them about a little bit of both. I tell them about Santa Claus, but at the same time, sometimes I tell them that mom, dad, and whoever else go buy the presents because Santa tells them to.

My kids know the presents are bought by their relatives and friends. Santa Claus is just the guy who will tell those people if the kids deserve (or not) to receive the gifts... They know Santa is not a real person, for them is just like an angel, who keeps watching their good or bad deeds. If they do good deeds, God is happy, Jesus is happy, their Guardian Angel is happy, Santa is happy, everything goes well, lol

I don't remember ever telling my daughter that her Christmas gift was from Santa. I think it's because Santa Claus and everything he symbolizes is being commercialized too much and people lose sight of the real "reason for the season". When I was a kid though, my siblings and I wrote to Santa Claus during Christmas time. We would tell him what we wanted and even hung our letters on the Christmas tree. I don't know when it happened but, eventually, we outgrew this "tradition". Our parents also began putting "With Love, Papa & Mama" on the gift cards of our presents so it sort of became obvious that they were not really from Santa but from people who cared about making children happy especially during Christmas time. If you look at how the concept of Santa Claus evolved, you're sure to stumble on one Saint Nicholas who was a bishop of the catholic church in Turkey. He was known for his charity, especially his reputation of secretly giving gifts which was what probably made him famous all over the world. I like to think that gift-giving during Christmas is a wonderful tradition that Saint Nicholas or Saint Nick or Santa Claus started; one that we should keep alive by remembering that this generosity springs out of love.

Christmas is a happy occassion that celebrated by people all over the world regardless the religions one believes in. I believe that for most of the non-Christian, they will tell their children about Santa Clause. To me, I think the myth is a beautiful one. So, I will be the Santa Claus make my children's childhood to be a joyful one.

I feel Santa is someone with whom we all espcially children can connect more easily than god. That could be due to his dressings, chatacter, nature & interactions with kids. Even tjhey love to get a gift from them. He is more likely an earthy person.

My kids are 3 and 1.5 and i tell them about santa claus and we go to church so they know the real reason behind christmas, well the 3 year old does. she loves watching christmas movies and she loves church. Kids need something to beloieve in, because these days kids are doing stuff earlier and earlier and I would rather them belioeve in a fictional character than out there showing off their body parts to some guy.

it depends on the culture of the parents. its been a tale that santa claus is the one giving toys so you better be good and nice. some parents still use this up to now. when my children are small they know that santa claus is the one who give gifts but they know that it is only on books and stories or film. they know that christmas is the birth of our lord Jesus Christ and they are aware that the gifts are from us (parents). every christmas we have decors of santa claus but this is only for the spirit of christmas. we still have our miniture belen, because for me christmas is Jesus birth not Sanata claus. though i have nothing against santa claus. it is still fun to have a santa and to watch about him.

Let them believe in santa as long as they choose to. Don't take wonderful childhood imagination away from them. They'll never have it again in their lives. Santa claus lives in the beliefs of the children..don't take it from them. My thing was I alwasy made most everything from santa, till one year I thought "good grief, I do all the work, pay for it and he gets all the credit!" I want my kids to know taht I love them and give them good gifts at christmas too! So I made the stockings and one large gift from Santa and the rest from parents.

As a parent I do not tell my children about Santa Claus for what they see is not real. Santa Claus may be real in the country where it originates. But most of all I tell them that their gifts came from God, who is the Giver and Provider of what we need. Parents are only instruments of God's love and kindness. Santa Claus is a name of the person who gives gifts during Christmas where the incident happened long years ago.

Well, my husband and I use Santa Claus, but we also take our children to church for Christmas and the weeks preceding Christmas so they know that Jesus is the gift that God gave to all of us. So we do use Santa, but that is more because the fictious character is based off of Saint Nicolas (dont ask me the spelling terrible at it). Who used to give candy and toys to kids around Christmas time. In fact his day is still celebrated by quite a few European countries if what I have read online is true. So hopefully the understand that Jesus is the true gift to all of us and that we are so overjoyed that we give each other presents!

No will not to say like that i say i only have given them gifts some parents say that because it may the santa claus who their children most admire. We know that in real life it is impossible to happen it is ofcourse good to create a love type of feeling in children about santa claus because there may be a admire about santa i also admire santa in my childhood

of cause i tell them that their christmas gift came from santa claus.i want them to thank god,enjoy life.if they thought their gift came from santa claus.they will enjoy life.thank love.someday they will do something to return the society.