My kids, when small, heard the Nativity story and waited for Santa. As they got older, they figured out the truth.
The Nativity was and always will be the centerpiece of the Holiday.
My oldest son is studing for the Priesthood for the Anglican Church of America, my daughter and her husband the Coastie are youth leaders at their church, and the two little guys at home sing church songs on the way to their Christian Private School. I’m pretty sure the story of Santa has not had a negative spiritual impact any more then the tooth fairy.
Oh yeah, we let them Trick or Treat too....
Agreed and somehow someway we turned out ok.
My kids too were able to discern the difference between a pleasant mythology and the TRVTH writ large.
You put Christ first! and that is what the post was all about! St. Nick was a dear man...