Daily Prompt: Fantasy

08

Mar

The Tooth Fairy (or Easter Bunny, or Santa Claus . . .) : a fun and harmless fiction, or a pointless justification for lying to children?

Hmm.

I don’t have children.  If I did, I wouldn’t like ANYONE lying to them about anything.  Life is easier when you have all the information necessary to make an informed decision.  I, of course, would not lie to them either.

Looking back I have always been skeptical about things.  I remember as a child, maybe 5 or 6, asking my mother about “Santi Clo” – say it like you don’t speak english – after watching those damn holiday specials.  Specifically, I asked, how “Santi Clo” was going to get inside our apartment since we didn’t have a chimney.  She told me, get this, he would use the wall heater.

Then and there my imagination pictured the fat, jolly, red suited wonder trying to fit.  I opened the bottom door.  I looked down and up and around inside.  ”How the heck?”

After about an 1hour of investigating I asked her, “Why doesn’t he just use the door or a window?”

She had no answer and her tolerance for my questioning mind had grown thin.  After all this wasn’t the first time I didn’t believe her.

Avoid lying to your children.  Avoid teaching them that there are circumstances where lying is acceptable.  It is not.  This goes for the other fairy tales used to negotiate with children.  Tooth Fairy is a concept to make us, when we are children, feel better about getting a tooth pulled.  You are going to “pay me off” to withstand a small amount of torture.  My mother, an immigrant, had no concept of the Tooth Fairy.   When I had a loose tooth I asked about the amount of money she thought the tooth would be worth to the Tooth Fairy and she looked at me as though I was insane. (I guess I got the skepticism from someone.)

It’s a flat out lie.  There is no white bearded man who can listen to every little child’s desire for something nice and then deliver on it.

Sound familiar?

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