The Legend Of Santa Claus

In kindergarten the entire class learning to write my name we’d received a laminated name tag I wrote my name to numerous times to perfection.

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We all know what Christmas is. At least I hope so. You may not celebrate it, but you know what it is. Some have Hanukkah and others have Kwanzaa. Hanukkah is for the Jews who celebrate the victory of the Maccabees over the larger Syrian army. While with Kwanzaa, people light a kinara and give gifts to each other. This takes place over seven days. Isn't that nice? Seven days of celebration! Christmas however… Is a single day. With Christmas, the children believe in a big, old, jolly man in a red suit called “Santa Clause”. On Christmas night he comes down your chimney, leaves presents and take the milk and cookies. For one thing, that's breaking and entering and for a second thing, he leaves unknown gifts?! You don't know whats in there! It

It is thought that in about 280 CE, the man now known as Santa Claus was born. This man’s full name was St. Nicholas of Myra. There is close to no information on this man, but there is legends. No one knows whether they are true or not. A famous legend tells of a story, where St. Nicholas helped a poor father and his three daughters. The father did not afford to pay his children’s dowries, and was consequently forced to sell them into slavery. But before the father could sell his children into servitude, St. Nicholas came in the night, and provided the unfortunate father with money for his daughters.

Jamie Allegro had been just a normal unemployed fifteen year old boy in Texas just trying to work his way up to getting his college degree, in which he hadn’t thought about his future much, he just did what society told him to do. His mother, Diana Allegro had been a veterinarian for around twenty years, a caring mother, but often brought pets that Jamie or Diana’s husband was allergic to. His father, Charles Allegro, was this cranky person, according to Jamie, who never really was around. He was a certified public accountant, that was 3 years younger than Jamie’s mother. In the past, Jamie was very gullible, doing so made him believe that Santa was real until age twelve. He tries to be socially acceptable to others and would trust most ideas

This leads into the most important difference between the book and the movie. In the movie it depicts that going to the North Pole to see Santa was all a dream, while in the book it made it all seem real. When children go see this movie, they might think that since the boy is having a dream that Santa must not be real. A lot of research has been done about kids believing in Santa. Gail Vines wrote about “the Santa delusion” from psychologist’s perspectives. According to Gail Vines (2007), children are able to

Everyone 5 and up knows that although Saint Nicholas existed; thankfully, there isn't a cheery fat guy with flying reindeer somehow slipping down your chimney to deliver presents while also knowing whether or not you've been naughty or nice. Speaking of which, how can he deliver presents to 2.2 billion kids?! And another thing; how can he survive in the Arctic? Being upon, if not the most, inhospitable place on Earth, it's practically impossible for any human being to live that far up north; not including global warming nor any of the other residents. For the scientific logic behind Santa, click here.

So you don’t believe in Santa Claus. It’s understandable. We find ourselves in an age of pure skepticism. We question everything. Science has taken hold of our lives, providing answers for all questions and dismissing anything that cannot be explained as either myth or fiction. So it’s quite understandable why you don’t believe, with no physical proof of his existence. It’s indeed understandable to lose sight of Father Christmas with the transformation of this holiday into one that, as of late, is used commercially as a lucrative crutch solely to make profit. It’s understandable to abandon Santa Claus after hearing countless people deny his very physical or even spiritual existence. After all, one tends to

What's the most wonderful time of the year? Christmas of course, but this also happens to be the best holiday for deceiving your vulnerable and trusting children. By lying to your kids about Santa, you are setting them up to be skeptical of your future judgement and authority. It can also negatively affect the bond of trust all parents want to experience with their kids.

Growing up in a multicultural family, there were always many stories being shared. From my mother’s side, I heard traditional American stories and on my father’s side, there were diverse stories from Barbados. There were many stories from both cultures that were similar, but the only one that was consistent across the board (except for the color of his skin) was Santa Claus. In both cultures, he is the big cheery man that comes down the chimney every Christmas Eve and delivers presents to all the nice girls and boys all over the world. He is the man who was always watching you. If you don’t behave, you’ll find coal in your stocking. My parents played with this story for as long as they possibly could. They falsified letters from the North Pole, their friends pretend they were Mrs. Claus, and pretended our drunk neighbor on his snowmobile was Santa riding his sleigh in our front yard. For a while, I believed everything they said, but nothing lasts forever.

And, since when must omniscient beings lower themselves to mere terrestrial standards of empirical proof? Why should the lowly and common measures of evidence be applied to Santa alone? Indeed, using the arguments applied to other contemporary deities, belief in Santa is more than reasonable.

Though Kaplan agrees that it would teach people to have the spirit of gift giving by explaining the story of “The Gift of the Magi” where a married couple gives up both of there possessions for each other in order to have a nice Christmas. Though he does this rather sarcastically by adding, “In the story, you will recall (and if not, spoiler alert),” to the famous story. Though he after explaining the story he adds, “If we believe in Santa, we believe in an aspect of gift-giving that resists rational analysis.” Though Kaplan states that in order to believe in a big jolly man breaking into your house as people we would need a certain level of psychological and social redirection to have the illusion appear real to everyone so therefore it couldn’t be demystified. And even after this the illusion would fall apart for someone in our society; parents perhaps, would have to learn the truth in order to keep the gifts under the tree Christmas morning. He ends the article with saying, “You might as well ask if we’re naughty or nice.” Which is saying are people good or bad therefore there is no saying what could happen is everyone suddenly believed in the existence of Santa

This story is about a little girl named becky and when she was in the second grade she santa missed her house and she thought that he was dead. Every year since than she thought he was dead and every time her friends would bring up memories she would tell them the story about what has happened to her in the past with santa. She is 23 years old and she heard someone knock on her door and it was a man with a white beard and a red cap gave her a stocking with things in it and said “I've been looking for you for 23 years”. Now she stills believes in santa. I think that every child should deserve a christmas even if they believe in santa or not. Believing in santa but once you get older and finding out that he doesn't exist anymore is sometimes

When I was younger, I was told about Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, and many others comparable to an innumerable amount of children today. Many parents, including mine, have told or will tell similar lies to their children all over the

But I think that parents concerned with harming their relationship with their kid may discover the revelation of the ruse opens their children’s eyes and helps them see their parents in not a bad but different light. The discovery of the Santa Myth leads to important steps towards maturity like realizing your parents are people, just like you, and aren’t infallible. Having your parents share the truth about Santa and also share their personal discoveries of the myth can actually bring parents and children closer through the realization that they’ve both gone through the same experience. It also brings a new appreciation for parents’ efforts.