My Child Does Not Believe in Santa Clause

I want my daughter to believe in Jesus, who is the reason for the season.  As sappy as that sounds, it's very true.

Santa is not as good of a fairy tale as true story of Jesus.  I  am mainly thinking of the song Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town. Nice children get what ever they want for Christmas, and naughty children get lumps of coal. Santa see.ms very conditional

Jesus, on the other hand, forgives everyone who forgives others (Matthew 6:14).  All of us are naughty (Romans 3:10 & Romans 3:23).  The punishment for all of us being naughty is not coal, but death in Hell (Romans 6:23).  Jesus did not wait for all of us to nice either.  While we were still naughty, Christ came into this world and died for us (Romans 5:8).  Jesus gave his gift of the forgiveness of sins to all "naughty and nice children".

During Christmas, I talk to my daughter about why Jesus came into this world and Saint Nicholas, who Santa is based off of.  The stories of Jesus and Saint Nicholas will always be true for my daughter, and she won't ever be devastated that my wife and I lied to her with Santa not being real.

Saint Nicholas

Below is an excerpt from the Saint Nicholas article at the Catholic.org site, which I find is more interesting than the Santa Claus of the North Pole.  If you don't feel like reading the below wall of text, the Saint Nicholas link above has a video too.

"The great veneration with which St. Nicholas has been honored for many ages and the number of altars and churches all over the world that are dedicated in his memory are testimonials to his wonderful holiness and the glory he enjoys with God. [He was alive during the fourth century.]

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Both of his parents tragically died during an epidemic when he was a young man, leaving him well off, but to be raised by his uncle - the Bishop of Patara. Nicholas was determined to devote his inheritance to works of charity, and his uncle mentored him as a reader and later ordained him as a presbyter (priest).

An opportunity soon arose for St. Nicholas and his inheritance. A citizen of Patara had lost all his money, and needed to support his three daughters who could not find husbands because of their poverty; so the wretched man was going to give them over to prostitution. Nicholas became informed of this, and thus took a bag of gold and threw it into an open window of the man's house in the night. Here was a dowry for the eldest girl and she was soon duly married. At intervals Nicholas did the same for the second and the third; at the last time the father was on the watch, recognized his benefactor and overwhelmed Nicholas with his gratitude. It would appear that the three purses represented in pictures, came to be mistaken for the heads of three children and so they gave rise to the absurdstory of the children, resuscitated by the saint, who had been killed by an innkeeper and pickled in a brine-tub.

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St. Nicholas is celebrated as the patron saint of several classes of people, especially, in the East, of sailors and in the West of children.

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This custom in England is not a survival from Catholic times. It was popularized in America by the Dutch Protestants of New Amsterdam who converted the popish saint into a Nordic magician (Santa Claus = Sint Klaes = Saint Nicholas) and was introduced into this country by Bret Harte. It is not the only "good old English custom" which, however good, is not "old English," at any rate in its present form."