The Gosselin kids dont believe in Santa Claus, do yours?
I wanted to cover this because the “Santa” myth is one my five year-old son buys into hook, line and sinker. At first I felt guilty about it and wondered whether I should tell him the truth. Then I looked up how other parents handle it and many think that there’s nothing wrong in fostering a belief in Santa. When my son asks about it, I talk about a benevolent Santa that is part omniscient god and part superhero. I sing “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” as if it’s true. I feel kind of bad about lying to my son, but on the other hand it’s sweet that he believes in Santa and I don’t want to ruin it for him. I’ll tell him the true story of St. Nicholas when he’s ready.
US Weekly reports that the five year-old Gosselin sextuplets, who are about the same age as my son, no longer believe in Santa. Their older twin sisters, Mady and Cara, 9, are said to have ruined it for them. Some parents might call that sad while others say it’s realistic and honest:
After a rough, rough year for the eight Gosselin kids — their parents Jon and Kate Gosselin will divorce imminently and their hit reality show is no more — at least they can look forward to a visit from ol’ Saint Nick come Dec. 25. Well, not exactly.
“They don’t believe in Santa Claus,” a Gosselin pal reveals of 9 year-old twins Mady and Cara and 5 year-old sextuplets Alexis, Hannah, Aeden, Collin, Leah and Joel. “Mady and Cara ruined it for the sextuplets,” the source explains, “and told them a few years ago that Santa wasn’t real, and that their presents come from Mommy and Daddy.”
Sadly, the holiday anti-cheer has also spread to little ones outside the family’s Wernersville, Penn. compound, the source reports: “The sextuplets are the ones at school who tell the other kids there’s no Santa Claus.”
Whether or not the eight kids leave out cookies for Santa, Christmas season has arrived at the Gosselin home: the transitioning brood has set up a twelve-foot tree, decorated with white lights and a big star on top, in the family room at the back of the house.
[From US Weekly]
Aww, that’s too bad that Mady and Cara are telling their classmates there’s no Santa! Those kids have gone through so much in the past year. While we were focusing on their messed up parents, particularly their lying, cheating father, there were eight little kids suffering at home.
On Wednesday the news came out the Kate Gosselin said her kids were crying over the fact that the cameras were no longer filming for their reality show. I thought that they were crying because they missed the crew that became like a second family to them. Some of you pointed out how clueless Kate sounded by claiming the kids missed the show without even a mention of the fact that she’s divorcing her husband. Divorce is really hard on kids and they may act out and get upset over other things as they try to process the changes in their lives. Cara and Mady might be acting out by trying to ruin Christmas for other kids. Their holiday is already being ruined by their parents’ acrimonious divorce.
Jon Gosselin might have less cash to buy presents this year. He was issued an injunction by the judge in TLC’s case against him not to make any paid appearances without TLC’s approval. It didn’t hurt TLC’s position that both Jon and his lawyer failed to show up to court to defend themselves.
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