[ SECRET POST #6071 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6071 ⌋

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[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]



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Comments

Re: What seemingly benign 'traditions' do you hate?

[(Anonymous)]

100% with you on petty recipe hoarding. So glad no one in my immediate family is like that, but we've missed out on some neat things because other people felt like they'd stop being special if anyone else could make "their" signature dish.

What's on my mind right now, though, is the pile of lying to kids about holidays. Someone was posting rather shyly to a very large atheist forum, recently, wanting to know if people thought it would be okay to not go through the motions of the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny and Santa being real, and as I appreciated that my family never put me through that and didn't feel too isolated having to keep it to myself to not disillusion other kids, I wrote them a comment to that effect. Reassuring them that I don't look back on that with regret at all, and enjoyed the holidays anyway. There were a few of us, saying as much: immigrants from families that weren't trying super-hard to be as Americanized as possible, and a handful of Jews pointing out that, no, they didn't feel like their parents were cruel for not going along with the pop culture version of Christmas, either. But the vehemence from the people who apparently believed having to leave Santa behind was a right and proper childhood right of passage was really repellent to me. One thing is disagreeing, and another is acting like they have to claim every way but theirs is terrible parenting and depriving children of wonder.

And ... atheists here are not generally known for being staunch traditionalists, so the intensity of it surprised me.

Re: What seemingly benign 'traditions' do you hate?

[greghousesgf]

I always knew Santa wasn't real and it didn't wreck Xmas for me at all.

Re: What seemingly benign 'traditions' do you hate?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know - honestly I do agree with just telling kids the truth since it doesn't mean cutting out the celebration side of it anyways.

That being said, I was one of those kids raised with the whole tooth fairy/santa/etc - but when I found out the truth as I got older, I just accepted 'Oh it was just pretend, ok' and carried on. I don't think I've ever met anyone who did get upset finding out the truth growing up (just one kid who got upset finding out that everyone but him got money for losing their baby teeth) - but I'm from the UK, so I don't know if its a cultural difference or just how .
On one hand I did enjoy the fun of it and maybe some parents want to share that sense of whimsy with their kids - but of course there's the lying aspect; and there's no guarantee that the child in question will get upset or not when they do learn the truth until it happens. So IDk.