When my kids were young and I was in a mother’s support group, the question of telling your children about Santa came up. There were the realists, the delayers and those that didn’t celebrate Christmas anyway.

The realists argued that if you are caught lying to your children about something, perhaps they would never trust you again. The delayers wanted to make that delicious innocent time last as long as possible. And the Hanukkah crowd saw no reason to keep up a story that had nothing to do with them.