{"id":29474,"date":"2012-12-19T20:57:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T02:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=29474"},"modified":"2021-05-30T07:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T12:31:10","slug":"how-to-be-santa-claus-for-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/people\/fatherhood\/how-to-be-santa-claus-for-your-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Be Santa Claus (For Your Kids)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29478 size-full\" title=\"Santa Header 2\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2012\/12\/Santa-Header-21.jpg\" alt=\"Man wearing santa hat and beard illustration. \" width=\"600\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Santa-Header-21.jpg 600w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Santa-Header-21-320x120.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If your family celebrates Christmas, and you&#8217;re of the opinion that belief in Santa Claus constitutes one of the most magical parts of childhood rather than the Big Lie, you&#8217;ll annually have the privilege of taking on the role of old Kris Kringle. This is a big responsibility. For eight or so years of your&nbsp;kid&#8217;s life, you&#8217;ll be playing the jolly old fat man who makes dreams come&nbsp;true. If you do it well, your kids\u2019 imaginations will have plenty of magical moments to&nbsp;feast on. If you blow it, your kids may become prematurely jaded about Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Being Santa is no easy task; kids today are a savvy bunch, and the truth about Mr.&nbsp;Claus is only a Google search away. The following are ways to preserve the Christmas&nbsp;magic and keep your kids believing in St. Nick for as long as possible.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>How to Be Santa Claus for Your Kids<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29482 size-full\" title=\"Santa 1-1\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Santa-1-11.jpg\" alt=\"Man in santa hat hiding presents under bed illustration .\" width=\"500\" height=\"503\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hide the gifts. <\/strong>The most common Santa slayer for kids is finding their gifts, the same&nbsp;gifts supposedly being made in Santa\u2019s workshop, sitting in their parents\u2019 closet.&nbsp;Around age 6 or 7 kids start getting suspicious about the Santa story and will&nbsp;commence a thorough search of the house to find their Christmas booty. And these are&nbsp;professional hide-n-seekers, so don\u2019t fool yourself; they know every nook and cranny&nbsp;in the house. If you don&#8217;t have a super-secret spot available in-residence, your safest bet is to stash the presents at an offsite location. If you have&nbsp;space at your office, keep the presents there. If that&#8217;s not an option, see if you can stash&nbsp;the gifts at a good friend&#8217;s house who 1) has no kids, 2) has infants, or 3) has older kids who&nbsp;are in on the Santa jig.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Track Santa on radar. <\/strong>Even little tykes are pretty technologically savvy these days,&nbsp;and look to modern gadgets for affirmation of what is real. Every year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noradsanta.org\/\">NORAD radar<\/a>&nbsp;realistically \u201ctracks\u201d Santa\u2019s journey around the globe on Christmas Eve. You can show this to your kids&nbsp;as proof that Santa is indeed on the move.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29483 size-full\" title=\"Santa 2-1\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Santa-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dad in santa hat reading story to kids in pajamas illustration.\" width=\"500\" height=\"496\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the kids to bed. <\/strong>Read the kiddos <em>A Night Before Christmas <\/em>and\/or <em>The Polar&nbsp;<\/em><em>Express <\/em>and then tuck them into bed. But they\u2019re going to have a tough time getting to&nbsp;sleep; kids are wired on Christmas Eve night, excitedly thinking about all the cool stuff&nbsp;that they&#8217;re going to get in the morning. To make sure they actually doze off so you and&nbsp;your wife can get to work, tell them that Santa Claus has a sleep detector and will only&nbsp;come to homes that have sleeping children. If that doesn&#8217;t work, give them a sippy cup&nbsp;filled with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/living\/food-drink\/general-eisenhowers-5-star-holiday-eggnog\/\">eggnog<\/a> and a bit of rum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29484 size-full\" title=\"Santa 3-1\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Santa-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Man in santa hat assembling bicycle beside Christmas tree.\" width=\"500\" height=\"447\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finish assembling toys.<\/strong> Some presents, like bikes, will need some assembly. If possible, do any&nbsp;assembly offsite in order to reduce the ruckus of you going through your toolbox. If&nbsp;that&#8217;s not an option, get the tools you need ready during the day. Read the instructions&nbsp;over so you have an idea of what you&#8217;re doing. You have limited time, so the less time&nbsp;you spend scratching your head figuring out how to put the darn thing together the&nbsp;better.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29485 size-full\" title=\"Santa 4-1\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Santa-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mom and dad wearing santa hat putting gifts under christmas tree.\" width=\"500\" height=\"521\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Place the presents under the tree and fill the stockings<\/strong>. If possible, wrap all the presents&nbsp;before Christmas Eve so all you have to do that night is put them under the tree. While&nbsp;you&#8217;re bringing out the gifts, have your wife stuff the stockings with goodies. Pro tip: In the run up to Christmas, remember to hide the stocking goodies as well as you hide&nbsp;the big presents. My family of five always got oranges in the bottom of our stockings growing up. One&nbsp;year I counted the number of oranges in the fridge the night before Christmas. There were seven. The next morning I did a recount. Only two oranges were left. With a heavy, heavy heart, I put two and two together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As you put out the presents, be on watch for rogue children.<\/strong> Kids&nbsp;will invariably climb out of bed to either try to sneak a peek at Santa Claus himself or to see if he&#8217;s left their&nbsp;booty under the tree yet. If at all possible, try to catch your kids before they make it&nbsp;near the living area where the tree and gifts are waiting. Threaten them with a lump of&nbsp;coal if they don&#8217;t get back to bed. If you can&#8217;t stop your kid in time and he catches you&nbsp;in the act, you can lie and maintain their faith in Santa or tell them the sad truth that&nbsp;Santa isn&#8217;t real. If you go with the more fun option, i.e., lying, tell your kid that you and&nbsp;your wife were just putting out Mommy\u2019s and Daddy&#8217;s gifts for each other and that&nbsp;Santa had already come. Swiftly get them back to bed so you can finish the job.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29486 size-full\" title=\"Santa 5-1\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Santa-5-1.jpg\" alt=\"Man wearing santa hat eating biscuits for santa.\" width=\"500\" height=\"543\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leave evidence.<\/strong> Unlike most men who sneak into houses late at night, you want to&nbsp;make sure Santa leaves plenty of evidence behind. Leave some soot boot prints on the carpet near the fireplace. Eat the milk and cookies, leaving some half-eaten cookies on&nbsp;the plate. If the kids set out carrots for the reindeer, put some gnawed-on carrot stubs in the fireplace. Maybe place a cool gold button near the Christmas tree too, and tell your kids that&nbsp;it must have fallen off Santa&#8217;s suit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get to bed. <\/strong>You won&#8217;t get much sleep tonight, but try to get as much shuteye as you&nbsp;can. You&#8217;re going to need all the energy you can get on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What do you do to play Santa in your house? Share with us in the comments!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storytellersworkshop.com\/\"><em>Illustrations by Ted Slampyak<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your family celebrates Christmas, and you&#8217;re of the opinion that belief in Santa Claus constitutes one of the most magical parts of childhood rather than the Big Lie, you&#8217;ll annually have the privilege of taking on the role of old Kris Kringle. This is a big responsibility. 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