Our family celebrates St. Nicholas day and operates under the charmed myth that St. Nick also fills the stockings on Christmas Day. Our kids are not yet old enough to ask this question, but the biggest hangup for us was how we would explain the need to give charitably, especially for donations to toy drives or the Angel Tree at church. I.e. “Why doesn’t Santa just bring toys to the poor kids?” We didn’t have a good answer, so in our house we decided that Santa would do the small candies and knick-knacks in the stockings and the gifts would be from family. We let as much wonder live in the kids as they want, but we don’t play up Santa on our end. I’m a big fan of using an answer that I heard Emily say before…”It’s a great mystery,” when faced with Santa logistical questions from the five-year-old.
Our family celebrates St. Nicholas day and operates under the charmed myth that St. Nick also fills the stockings on Christmas Day. Our kids are not yet old enough to ask this question, but the biggest hangup for us was how we would explain the need to give charitably, especially for donations to toy drives or the Angel Tree at church. I.e. “Why doesn’t Santa just bring toys to the poor kids?” We didn’t have a good answer, so in our house we decided that Santa would do the small candies and knick-knacks in the stockings and the gifts would be from family. We let as much wonder live in the kids as they want, but we don’t play up Santa on our end. I’m a big fan of using an answer that I heard Emily say before…”It’s a great mystery,” when faced with Santa logistical questions from the five-year-old.