Parenting advice: What to do when your child doesn’t believe in Santa.

My Kid Clearly Doesn’t Believe in Santa Anymore, and I’m Bummed

My Kid Clearly Doesn’t Believe in Santa Anymore, and I’m Bummed

Slate's parenting podcast.
Dec. 19 2014 9:36 AM

Mom and Dad Are Fighting: The Truth About Santa Edition

Listen to Slate’s parenting podcast discuss Santa Claus and holiday gifts that will get your kids to make something, not stare at a screen.

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In this week’s edition of Slate’s parenting podcast Mom and Dad Are Fighting, Slate editors Dan Kois and Allison Benedikt talk with special guest John Dickerson about managing the transition from kids who believe in Santa to kids who know that (SPOILER ALERT) there is no Santa. Then John sticks around to discuss his article about holiday gifts that aren’t video games. Plus triumphs and fails, recommendations, and a listener call about what to do when mom and dad really are fighting.

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Dan recommends the Lizzie Skurnick Books editions of The All-of-a-Kind Family books. Buy three, get one free!

Allison recommends two great tactile gifts: Magna-Tiles and LEGO Creationary.

This week’s episode was sponsored by Automatic.com. Use our special URL automatic.com/momdad to get $20 off your order.

Email us at momanddad@slate.com to tell us what you thought of today’s show and give us ideas for what we should cover in the next edition. Got questions that you’d like us to answer on a future episode? Call and leave us a message at 424-255-7833.

Allison Benedikt is Slate’s executive editor. Follow her on Twitter.

John Dickerson is a co-anchor of CBS This Morning, co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest, host of the Whistlestop podcast, and author of Whistlestop and On Her Trail.

Dan Kois edits and writes for Slate’s human interest and culture departments. He’s the co-author, with Isaac Butler, of The World Only Spins Forward, a history of Angels in America, and is writing a book called How to Be a Family.