Some Santas just don't wear the suit with dignity so it's best to expose them as posers. (Photo by PapiBlogger, 2010).

Keeping Santa’s identify a secret is much harder today for parents than when I was a boy.  Back then we didn’t have the Internet or the onslaught of cynicism that makes it hard for kids today to be as gullible as we were.

When I was a boy I honestly believed in Kris Kringle, the elves and reindeers.  Like many other Generation X’ers, I eagerly awaited the annual airing of the now classic TV movie I looked “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer”, in large part because I really believed the story.  I never bothered to question why Santa, even when he looked a little different at the Sears my grandparents took me to.    (more…)