Do your kids believe in Santa? How do you explain various characters to your kids during the holiday seasons? Are they beginning to ask questions about Santa? If they haven’t yet, do you know what you are going to say when they ask you if Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, etc. are really real? This week, Hallie asks me about how I share the magic of the holidays with my family. We also talk about what we can learn from the truth about Santa, and how he can give us both presents and presence inside our internal experience.
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Timestamps
[2:54] Does it matter if our kids believe in Santa, or is the whole thing ruined if they think he isn’t real?
[5:50] Christmas, Easter, the Tooth Fairy, etc. can just be practice for playing with the experience of the outside world, embracing traditions, and then having open dialogue around them.
[7:37] Hallie and I talk about the Tooth Fairy, and how we explained it to our kids.
[9:49] You can start by letting your kids know that Christmas is really about giving.
[10:19] How these characters can be used to teach the lessons of giving, kindness, and gratitude.
[11:10] Is it imagination, or is it belief?
[14:30] Maybe you don’t want the idea of Santa to end? How do you acknowledge that and let go of that part so you can fully be present in the moment.
[15:21] Belief is not a knowing, it’s a belief. The only truth that is fully real is the experience that you’ve had.
[21:14] The only thing that is really real is you that’s in there, having an experience of itself.
