Glad someone bumped this thread - cheers, Bloom.

I am going to "kill Christmas" for all my sister's children, when she has them. She and my mother have worked hard on Liebs the last four years. I hadn't thought it had gone in. Not just talking about "Santa" and "Father Christmas", but DVDs and stories with him in too. (FWIW, I don't mind the story of St Nicholas, that's a nice story. I know Santa Claus is a variant on St Nick, but in my mind that name is more involved with consumerism. The real Father of Christmas is the Father of Jesus - our Heavenly Father. Not a man in a red coat and false beard!)

This last week, he has started to talk about "Farmer Christmas" visiting with presents. I could cry, I really could. That isn't what we believe in and that isn't what Christmas is about. But now it is what my son thinks is real. His thinking is that Farmer Christmas can visit our current house, but won't know when we move so won't visit. I'm a bit perplexed as Farmer Christmas has never visited our current house. Will have to have a big chat about it all should he bring it up when we're not out and about and in earshot of other small children. Because I actually respect other peoples' parenting plans and strategies, despite many of them not respecting mine (OK, so most don't bring it up again after I say we don't do that, but many question/interrogate me about it).