Why do people tell kids things that aren’t true? For example Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, fairy tales, all that. It seems like until the age of 10 we unnecessarily live in a world that is half a fiction. At least later in life most sensible people acquire respect for the truth in the world, and accept fiction as being limited to books, films, music, poetry and other media.
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GuitarDoctor
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Jan 29, 2019
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When my younger brother was small, he would sometimes refuse to get out of bed. The only way to get him out of bed was to tell him there's a bus on the street. For some reason, he was excited to see buses. Sometimes, I was sent to get him up by telling him there's a bus out there, when there wasn't. Yeah, don't ask.
graceylou
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Jan 28, 2019
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Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy were relatively harmless fictions. The worst lie my parents told me was that Moronism (oops, Mormonism) was true. That messed me up for decades.
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Jan 28, 2019
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