How do you explain a toy drive to a child that believes in Santa?

August 5th, 2007 | by Michael |
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  1. 12 Responses to “How do you explain a toy drive to a child that believes in Santa?”

  2. By =^..^=IrieGirl=^..^= on Aug 6, 2007 | Reply

    I think maybe it’s time for truth telling, because this child would benefit more from learning charity and learing to appreciate his parents’ hard work to give him what he gets than from learning that a mystical fat man in a red suit just hands things out.

  3. By Mark T on Aug 9, 2007 | Reply

    “Yes, Santa does but you have presents from mummy, daddy and aunts and uncles too - but some of these children don’t have any family left to also buy them a present, so we make sure they get one or two extra ones - as well as the ones from Santa”

    Something like that perhaps?

  4. By big mac on Aug 10, 2007 | Reply

    Toy Drives are wonderful ways for the human race to help Santa contribute. He is, after all, very busy all year, making Christmas a Happy time for children. We ,as parents, should do our part to help him. Some children who are needy and cannot communicate with Santa would be left out without the toy drives.

  5. By rives on Aug 11, 2007 | Reply

    say sometimes we have to help santa clause by giving toys to the toy drive we can be like santa helpers

  6. By arihaz on Aug 11, 2007 | Reply

    Tell him/her Santa does not exist and tell you children that you are the one that byes them the gifts. That way they will appreciate you more and know that you are the one that gives them the gifts not some old guy with a beard and beer belly. Santa is dead.

  7. By mrsreadalot on Aug 12, 2007 | Reply

    I would tell my child that Santa is so busy that he needs help sometimes. We gather the toys for him and he picks them up on Christmas Eve night. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

  8. By Mary Smith on Aug 14, 2007 | Reply

    tell them that Santa wants you to give them something extra as he has so many toys to deliver and sometimes asks people to be extra nice and buy extra toys for other children too.

  9. By bubbles_in_the_tub_4_u on Aug 17, 2007 | Reply

    you tell them that santa isn’t real and it’s a done deal

  10. By Colette B on Aug 19, 2007 | Reply

    I have always told my son that parents have to pay for the gifts that Santa brings. This way, he knows that we have to pay for his gifts and he cannot have an unlimited amount of toys and the poor do not have the money for toys so we have to help them to be able to enjoy their Christmas too. It has worked so far.

    Good luck.

  11. By happy2luvk9s on Aug 20, 2007 | Reply

    Have her tell him that maybe the little one could not write to Santa and since the child was unable to send Santa a wish list then humans step in and help Santa give those children that are unable to mail a letter to santa.

  12. By applecrisp on Aug 23, 2007 | Reply

    I always have told my children that they go to the children who have very little. If Santa gave everything that they wanted/needed there would not be enough to go around.

  13. By Badge on Aug 25, 2007 | Reply

    I have never lied to my kids about Santa or anything else. However, I acknowledge that not all people subscribe to this thinking. You could simply say that Santa is such a nice person and is so very busy as are his elves that he lets people help make sure there are extra toys for boys and girls who didn’t get their letters and requests to Santa’s shop on time. Or some variation of that.

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