7 Simple Techniques for Keeping Your Child Believing in Santa

"7 Simple Techniques for Keeping Your Child Believing in Santa Claus”

Many parents love to see the joy and excitement Santa Claus can bring to their child. For many people, their childhood memories of Santa Claus are the best Christmas memories they have. Keeping your child believing in Santa, however, can be a daunting task. Children are smart these days, and some of the old Santa tricks just don’t get by them anymore. Many children are perpetually plagued with the question, “Is there a Santa Claus?”



Every family may have slightly different Christmas traditions with regards to Santa Claus, but there are some very easy things any person can do to keep the belief in Santa at an all time high. The following 7 techniques will keep your child believing in the magic and wonderment of Santa Claus and you don’t have to be familiar with the history of Santa Claus to apply them.



1) Have your child write a Santa Letter. This can be a simple letter that your child can write to Santa Claus. Children absolutely love to write a letter to Santa, but they occasionally need a little parental guidance to pull it off.



Help your child include a special list of gifts they desire for Christmas into the Santa letter. Many children enjoy getting more creative by drawing or cutting out pictures that represent the gifts they want.



Once the child’s Santa letter is finished, simply mail it to the North Pole. Mail it to the following Santa Claus address: Santa Claus, 1 Candy Cane Lane, North Pole 00001. Don’t bother using a return address, you wouldn’t want it to return as ‘undeliverable’ for any reason.



2) Write a Letter from Santa and have your child receive it in the mail. Create a personalized letter from Santa by directly mentioning your child’s name and certain information about your child in the text. This will make for a much more believable Santa letter. Be sure to make these letters from Santa different for each child in the same household. The child will have no doubt that Santa Claus is coming to town after they receive their personalized letter from Santa!



“I can honestly state as a parent that the personalized letter from Santa has single handedly restored my son’s belief! The look of shock and amazement on his face when he got an ‘authentic letter from Santa’ quickly abolished any doubt he previously had about Santa Claus.”


Print the Santa letter on authentic looking letterhead, as this will help to reinforce the believability. Many different styles of paper can be found at your local office supply store.



You can add to the fun by getting your letter from Santa postmarked at the North Pole. Simply send your Santa letter inside another sealed, stamped envelope to: North Pole Christmas Cancellation, Postmaster, 5400 Mail Trail, Fairbanks, AK 99709-9999. (It needs to arrive by December 15th)



Many parents add a certificate for being on Santa’s “Nice List” along with the Santa Letter for added effect. Another great item to add with the Santa letter is a Santa Claus coloring sheet. Combining the personalized Santa letter, the nice certificate, and the Santa Claus coloring sheet is a sure fire method for keeping your child believing.



3) Have your child leave milk and cookies out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. This is simple enough to do with your child. It lets your child know YOU still believe, too. Make it a bonding experience for you and your child by baking the cookies together on Christmas Eve. Don’t underestimate how powerful this can be for creating joyful memories of Santa Claus, for both you and your child. Did you know that Santa’s favorite cookie recipe is Chocolate Chip?



Put the fresh cookies on a plate next to a glass of cold milk. You can even put a short letter to Santa Claus next to the cookies and milk. These tasty treats will give Santa the energy he needs to continue traveling to the millions of other households awaiting his arrival.


Don’t forget to leave some crumbs on the table Christmas morning. Your child will feel honored that Santa Claus ate the whole plate of cookies and drank all of the milk before rushing on his way.



4) On Christmas Eve, have your child sprinkle reindeer food on the lawn. Santa Claus gets milk and cookies on Christmas Eve, but what about Rudolph and the rest of the joyful gang? What do they eat? Well, reindeer food, of course!



You can make a batch of environmentally friendly reindeer food with common grocery items such as oats or granola. (Do not use potentially hazardous items, such as glitter in your reindeer food. Although this may make the reindeer food appear to be magical in some way, it can be extremely dangerous if ingested by small children, should they decide to ‘sample’ the reindeer food. It can also be potentially hazardous to the small animals outside such as rabbits, dogs, or cats that may eat the food.)



Once you have the reindeer food mixed up, walk outside with your child on Christmas Eve night and explain the importance of making sure Santa’s sleigh team stays fed. Sprinkle a small amount onto your yard near bushes or trees.



This healthy reindeer snack will give Rudolph and the rest of the reindeer the nourishment they need to continue flying Santa’s heavy sleigh into the night. Your child will be proud for helping Santa Claus on his journey, and is sure to raise the belief in Rudolph and the other reindeer as well.



5) Leave Santa Claus tracks in your house on Christmas Eve. Being sure to not stain your carpet, leave some dirty boot prints by the fireplace (or doorway). Be sure to draw attention to the Santa Claus footprints on Christmas morning. To a child, this is solid evidence that Santa had been to their house.



6) A month or so after Christmas, send your child a postcard from Santa Claus on vacation. This not only keeps your child believing, but reminds your child that Santa is in their hearts all year long. It also answers the common question posed by children after Christmas, “Where is Santa Claus now?”



Be sure to make the postcard from somewhere very warm and sunny. After all, Santa does need a break from all that North Pole snow.



7) Mail your child a birthday greeting from Santa Claus. This technique works in tandem with the personalized Santa Letter you mailed your child previously. Mailing your child a simple birthday card from Santa is an excellent way to keep your child’s belief high throughout the year. Your child will think, “Wow! Santa actually knows my birthday!” The shock on your child’s face will be priceless.


Parents that have extremely intelligent kids or kids that are getting slightly older will genuinely need to utilize all 7 techniques mentioned above to keep their child believing in Santa Claus.



These techniques will assure your child is one of the millions of children that write Santa Letters each and every holiday season… one of the millions of children that believe wholeheartedly in Santa Claus.

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H1N1

On Thursday, Cami came home and handed me a letter sealed in an envelope.  I tried scanning it because it was so cute, but it won't show up. 

The envelope has a picture of a girls face with a thermometer in her mouth.  The letter says ~

Dear Mom

I don't feel that good and I think I a fever and the reason why I didn't go to the ofice or tell the teacher is because I don't want to leave school.  I also do have a headace.  Love, Cami

P.S please check my tempurture

Isn't that too cute?  I checked her temp and it was 99 degrees.  She felt really hot though.  She decided to stay home from her Pistons dance practice, and I decided to keep her home from school the next day.  I called the doctor though on Friday and they said 99 wasn't a fever.  Normally I actually would have sent her to school if she wanted & she did, but with all this flu scare ~ I kept her home. 

I still made an appointment just in case, but had to cancel at the last minute.  My mom had some issues & I couldn't get Cami to the appointment.  Her fever was actually gone the entire day though and she said she felt better.  She even went to gymnastics that evening. 

Then on Saturday, I braved the public clinic for H1N1.  I figured i better just get it.  We had a 2.5 hour wait from start to finish.  The girls did really well.

I don't know what you can tell from the pictures, but there were hundreds/thousands of people.  Thankfully it was a beautiful sunny day, so the wait outside wasn't that bad.  Cami chose to go first and then had a bit of a moment.  She ended up doing ok though.  It was a bit overwhelming just because there were so many stations of shots & so many people. 

Election Day, Shots & Thrift Store

We had no school because of Election day, so I was able to get Allie into the doctor for an asthma check up.  They could only give us the 8:50 am apt. which sucked but worked out.

Since we were the 2nd people there, we were able to get out before all the flu kids came in (according to the nurse)  In the process though, she asked my daughter if she had a flu shot which she hasn't.  Of course that led to her getting one.  Then because I opted out of Gardisil at her 11th checkup, she got it today as well.  She said the Gardisil hurt really bad when she was injecting it.  However the flu one was a breeze, lol.

While Allie was at dance, I decided to check out the Salvation Army near her studio.  It is one I've never been to.  Wow, the prices at Salavation Army has went up so much.  I used to never buy jeans for more then $2 at any thrift store & now they are around $8.99 each.  Shirts are anywhere from $3.99 - 9.99

That is crazy in my opinion.  I can buy these things brand new on clearance.  I'm not a huge Walmart fan, but they have LEI jeans for girls at regular price for $12 & 13.  Why would I pay $9 for used?  The shirts, you can tell most of them are used.  If they actually look close to new, then they are over $5 that is crazy.  Not to mention the other items they sell.  I see people posting online all the good deals they get, I wish ours were like that. 

Happy Halloween

Trip to the Cider Mill

We finally got to the cider mill on Sunday.  Just me, hubby & my youngest went.  My oldest went with her friend to a different cider mill.  I took tons of pictures, we had a really nice time.

This cider mill is powered by water, so the pic on top is Cami checking it out.  There is a bridge trail you can walk or you can climb down and walk along the water.  This is the first year we walked by the water.  We walked for quite a long time and had a great time.  I wouldn't let Cami climb the logs out over the water.  We ended up seeing one girl fall in at the end of our walk and another boy that was drenched. 

Want to get more pictures posted, but at dance at the connection is super slow!

Jazz Competition ~ Hokey Pokey

When Cami first came out of her jazz competition dance and told me she was dancing to the hokey pokey, I was like "What???"  Then I heard it and fell in love.  The dance is so stinkin' cute, I cannot wait for our first competition!

Check it out here, you can hit preview and listen to the Hokey Pokey.  What do you think, cute or what?

Her costume is going to be purple and yellow plaid.  Has a cute skirt, gloves and everything.  I'm getting excited!

Allie is doing competition in Jazz, Hip-Hip, an open number and tap.  She actually wants to quit tap, so we will see what happens tonight at dance.  I normally encourage her to keep at something, but I really could use the cheaper cost.  I'm so torn on this one.

Her open number is to Circus by Brittany Spears, Hip Hop is a combo with Imma Be by Black Eyed Peas and I forgot the other one.  Jazz is Maneater and tap is I Gotta Feeling by Black eyed peas.  Not sure on the costumes, she has an idea of jazz but that is it.

New Cell Phone

We finally got Allie a new cell phone. I convinced my dad to add her to his family plan, so she got a new LG touch screen phone for free.

Right now it will cost me $12 a month with no texting. I know, gasp right. She is ok with it, since the alternative was no phone at all. Plus she is only allowed to call at & t customers or make calls during free nights & weekends.

I want to add texting to our plan, but it will end up costing me $30 for unlimited for both our phones. I don't trust paying the $5 a month so she can have 200. I know she will go over since her last phone the majority of the texts said things like


ooooooo

boooooorrrrrreeeeeeddddd

what's up

ummmmmmmmm nothing

or of course at dannnccceee

Gotta love texting teens