Love and posted about this video :) Thanks for sharing, and also for helping me feel grounded in the decisions we in our household are also making. "For those on the fence about whether to have Santa in their household or not with little ones, I found this video to be great. Just to note; I LOVE Christmas! LOVEEEEEEE IT! Tis the season of giving (gift giving is my love language), the lights, the colours, the joy, the baking, dedicated family time, fantastic music, books and movies, and of course the celebration of Jesus' birthday ♥ What I have been debating in the last year as we planned for children and now have our own is what do we do about Santa, the reindeer, elves and the North Pole with our children as believers of Christ? My lovely SIL when I asked what they do mentioned that she felt if she were to lie about Santa, how would her daughter then view Jesus? This! We were thinking the same thing and I came to the conclusion that we can love Christmas, we can celebrate all that it has to offer, we can focus on the nativity and the birth of Jesus, and when it comes to Santa we will tell the true story of Saint Nicholas and his humble and thankless gift giving to strangers and those in need and how that caused a chain effect for how people celebrate Santa now. With that in mind, I found this video had a great message and helped me find comfort in not having Santa as a believed tradition in our home. We may get excited about the idea, may even have photos with Santa, but we will be honest about the idea of him. I do still plan on having stockings, but those are gifts from us as a little family to one another and maybe as the kids get older they may want to help choose one thing each to put in each others 🙂 Just some thoughts as Christmas day gets closer for those who are Christian or just not sure about Santa celebrations to begin with, and are on the fence about how to go about these topics. At the end of the day, you do what you want to do, but I just found this helpful and thought I'd share in case anyone else might find it helpful or comforting as well ♥ /edit - santa talk in the video starts roughly around the 7 minute mark for those interested🙂"
Yes yes yes, love your perspective and the way you kindly framed things about Santa. I grew up in a semi-Christian home, but Santa was probably talked about all year more than Jesus. At age 6, when I found out Santa wasn't real, I also concluded God wasn't real for a while. Thanks for your perspective and I'm going to borrow your wording when others ask us why we don't do Santa! Also, would love to hear your list of favorite Christmas books without Santa.
@@cassidykozusko6825 thank you so much for this comment and for sharing your story with me. I’m hoping to compile a nice big list of books without Santa :)
love your perspective + we are definitely kindred spirits on this holiday topic. 🤎 we do not do Santa either, but recently my daughter (nearly 4) has heard all of her cousins chatting about Santa’s big arrival, so she is in a magical imaginative state + it truly is sweet to watch, similar to what you mentioned with your friend. we do however do St. Nickolas Day in December (we do it on the European celebration day!) + I look forward to it each year! we do it in remembrance of the good deeds that he did all those years ago. she leaves her shoes by the door and we fill it with a few stocking type stuffers, as well as oranges, gold chocolates that look like money, etc that would have been what he actually left for people, and we have a St. Nickolas figurine that we leave there as well from the 1800’s that only comes out that one day! she knows this day is in remembrance of his generosity + in honor of that, we do something kind for someone! last year we made homemade playdoh together + added festive glitter and wrapped it up really nice and gave to the kiddos in her church nursery, but as she gets older we will adopt a child from our local angel tree or volunteer at a soup kitchen, etc to carry on the kindness that he did + make a small impact in our generation. this year we are going to donate non perishable food (I’m going to let her pick out the items) to a local food bank for our area (I will have her place the items on the shelves)! we also do a bit of age appropriate history reading about him that day so she grasps this tradition a bit better, and will add more each year. this has been so sweet to add in for our December traditions 🤎 we do not do elf on the shelf either, but we are starting “The Shepherd on The Search” this year + am looking forward to this new tradition! I have been loving your videos!! ✨
Abbie! Thank you for this comment. I will have to look more into St Nickolas day. That sounds like a very lovely tradition that perhaps we would adopt as well. Do you also do a stockings on Christmas? I feel like I read that the stocking tradition actually comes from the “leaving the shoes out” tradition. Curious if you do both or just the shoes! Thank you for being here and for the love and support 🥹❤️
We do both, yes! I don’t mind telling you what we have planned for this year - for St. Nickolas day we are giving her a pack of wikki stix, hair clips, the drinking straw that you can wear as glasses for fun, Christmas in The Big Woods book, and a kinder egg! We are very minimal gift givers so on Christmas morning her stocking is usually just one of her gifts stuffed inside! This year it’s going to be underwear, a yoto card, a pack of glittery rings, an Amish children’s cookbook, and something sweet!
Love and posted about this video :) Thanks for sharing, and also for helping me feel grounded in the decisions we in our household are also making.
"For those on the fence about whether to have Santa in their household or not with little ones, I found this video to be great. Just to note; I LOVE Christmas! LOVEEEEEEE IT! Tis the season of giving (gift giving is my love language), the lights, the colours, the joy, the baking, dedicated family time, fantastic music, books and movies, and of course the celebration of Jesus' birthday ♥
What I have been debating in the last year as we planned for children and now have our own is what do we do about Santa, the reindeer, elves and the North Pole with our children as believers of Christ? My lovely SIL when I asked what they do mentioned that she felt if she were to lie about Santa, how would her daughter then view Jesus? This! We were thinking the same thing and I came to the conclusion that we can love Christmas, we can celebrate all that it has to offer, we can focus on the nativity and the birth of Jesus, and when it comes to Santa we will tell the true story of Saint Nicholas and his humble and thankless gift giving to strangers and those in need and how that caused a chain effect for how people celebrate Santa now.
With that in mind, I found this video had a great message and helped me find comfort in not having Santa as a believed tradition in our home. We may get excited about the idea, may even have photos with Santa, but we will be honest about the idea of him. I do still plan on having stockings, but those are gifts from us as a little family to one another and maybe as the kids get older they may want to help choose one thing each to put in each others 🙂
Just some thoughts as Christmas day gets closer for those who are Christian or just not sure about Santa celebrations to begin with, and are on the fence about how to go about these topics. At the end of the day, you do what you want to do, but I just found this helpful and thought I'd share in case anyone else might find it helpful or comforting as well ♥
/edit - santa talk in the video starts roughly around the 7 minute mark for those interested🙂"
Yes yes yes, love your perspective and the way you kindly framed things about Santa. I grew up in a semi-Christian home, but Santa was probably talked about all year more than Jesus. At age 6, when I found out Santa wasn't real, I also concluded God wasn't real for a while. Thanks for your perspective and I'm going to borrow your wording when others ask us why we don't do Santa!
Also, would love to hear your list of favorite Christmas books without Santa.
@@cassidykozusko6825 thank you so much for this comment and for sharing your story with me. I’m hoping to compile a nice big list of books without Santa :)
love your perspective + we are definitely kindred spirits on this holiday topic. 🤎
we do not do Santa either, but recently my daughter (nearly 4) has heard all of her cousins chatting about Santa’s big arrival, so she is in a magical imaginative state + it truly is sweet to watch, similar to what you mentioned with your friend.
we do however do St. Nickolas Day in December (we do it on the European celebration day!) + I look forward to it each year! we do it in remembrance of the good deeds that he did all those years ago. she leaves her shoes by the door and we fill it with a few stocking type stuffers, as well as oranges, gold chocolates that look like money, etc that would have been what he actually left for people, and we have a St. Nickolas figurine that we leave there as well from the 1800’s that only comes out that one day! she knows this day is in remembrance of his generosity + in honor of that, we do something kind for someone! last year we made homemade playdoh together + added festive glitter and wrapped it up really nice and gave to the kiddos in her church nursery, but as she gets older we will adopt a child from our local angel tree or volunteer at a soup kitchen, etc to carry on the kindness that he did + make a small impact in our generation. this year we are going to donate non perishable food (I’m going to let her pick out the items) to a local food bank for our area (I will have her place the items on the shelves)! we also do a bit of age appropriate history reading about him that day so she grasps this tradition a bit better, and will add more each year. this has been so sweet to add in for our December traditions 🤎
we do not do elf on the shelf either, but we are starting “The Shepherd on The Search” this year + am looking forward to this new tradition!
I have been loving your videos!! ✨
Abbie! Thank you for this comment. I will have to look more into St Nickolas day. That sounds like a very lovely tradition that perhaps we would adopt as well. Do you also do a stockings on Christmas? I feel like I read that the stocking tradition actually comes from the “leaving the shoes out” tradition. Curious if you do both or just the shoes! Thank you for being here and for the love and support 🥹❤️
We do both, yes! I don’t mind telling you what we have planned for this year - for St. Nickolas day we are giving her a pack of wikki stix, hair clips, the drinking straw that you can wear as glasses for fun, Christmas in The Big Woods book, and a kinder egg!
We are very minimal gift givers so on Christmas morning her stocking is usually just one of her gifts stuffed inside! This year it’s going to be underwear, a yoto card, a pack of glittery rings, an Amish children’s cookbook, and something sweet!
@ this is amazing!!! Thank you for sharing this with me!
@ do you celebrate on Dec 6?