Like anything, it's up to you to choose and to parent how you feel. Do what is right for you.

I like the magic feeling behind the special times like Christmas etc, it's doesn't all revolve around one man in a red suit. We see family we don't often get to see, we eat too much of all the naughty things, we go Church to celebrate the birth of baby Jesus (this is something my DS1 who is 4 talks about all the time). We have a family holiday, we laugh, sing....it is so many things.

Everything is what you make it, you don't have to make it about one thing. I don't get the either Santa or nothing approach, that is it's either all about a man in a red suit or there is nothing at all - IYKWIM like I said it's about so many more things and we enjoy all these together and I balance it out. My family knows what Christmas means to us, we have books, go to church etc. I really don't see the big deal about it all.

My problem with it all is these days we all question so much & know much more, often the magic and innocence is lost. As hard as it is for a parent to teach there is no Santa is just as hard for anther to assure a child who has had their joy killed by another.