{"id":16592,"date":"2016-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/santa-story-could-be-harming-your-child\/"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:00:00","slug":"santa-story-could-be-harming-your-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/santa-story-could-be-harming-your-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa story could be harming your child"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Parents who encourage their kids to believe in Santa run the risk of \u201cdamaging\u201d them, says a social scientist.<\/h3>\n<p>Dr Kathy McKay from the University of New England says kids can be traumatised when they realise their parents were lying to them about the existence of Santa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorally, making children believe in myths such as this has to be questioned,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanpsy\/article\/PIIS2215-0366(16)30363-7\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she wrote in The Lancet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf all of a sudden you have that ripped out from under you, there is the potential to question \u2018if my parents lied about this what else are they lying about?\u2019\u2026 and having to all of a sudden reconceptualise everything can be very traumatic when everything you know becomes unsettled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said it would be easy to alter the \u201crelatively new\u201d Santa tradition\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere I\u2019m teaching now a lot of the families don\u2019t have Santa it\u2019s not part of their tradition and their children are deeply happy, they\u2019re not lacking for anything,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about necessarily getting rid of Santa but understanding why you\u2019re choosing to have Santa and why that\u2019s important to you and having those really important conversations about lying.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/is-ben-jarman-on-his-way-to-port-adelaide\"><strong>IS BEN JARMAN ON HIS WAY TO PORT ADELAIDE??<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/videos\/most-aussie-interview-ever-the-video-that-s-going-viral\"><strong>VIRAL &#8212; THE MOST AUSSIE INTERVIEW EVER &#8212; WATCH IT HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents who encourage their kids to believe in Santa run the risk of \u201cdamaging\u201d them, says a social scientist. Dr Kathy McKay from the University of New England says kids can be traumatised when they realise their parents were lying to them about the existence of Santa. \u201cMorally, making children believe in myths such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-16592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Santa story could be harming your child - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/santa-story-could-be-harming-your-child\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Santa story could be harming your child\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Parents who encourage their kids to believe in Santa run the risk of \u201cdamaging\u201d them, says a social scientist. 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