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The Family Discipleship Podcast

Talking With Your Littles About Santa (Replay)

The Family Discipleship Podcast

The Family Discipleship Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family

5.0 • 597 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Adam, Cassie, and Chelsea talk about different approaches Christian parents take to talking with their kids about Santa Claus. Questions that we discussed in this episode:
  • What are the different approaches Christian parents are taking toward Santa?
  • Is telling kids about Santa lying to them?
  • Does Santa distract us from what we celebrate at Christmas?
  • How do American Christmas traditions help us point our family to Christ?
  • Is there anywhere in the bible where the celebration of the Christmas holiday is a command given to Christians?
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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Family Discipleship Podcast, a podcast of Training the Church.

0:12.6

This is Adam Griffin, and welcome to a bonus episode of the Family Discipleship podcast.

0:18.5

Merry Christmas, everyone.

0:19.8

We've got a great topic for this episode. But first, let me introduce you to my lovely co-host. First, the very merry Cassie Bryant. How you doing today, Cassie? Oh, ho, ho. I've got my cup of tea and a jar of Nutella and a red sweater on. I'm just, I'm here for it. You're living the Christmas spirit. Yeah.

0:37.9

That's great. Okay. And then the best gift I have ever received, Mrs. Chelsea Griffin, how you doing today, Chelsea? On top of the world, living large, celebrating, full of merriment, all of those things. Full of merriment. I love it. Well, guys, I've got really good news for you. You guys know this. It won't be a surprise to you,

0:55.2

but I'm so excited to reveal some of the conversations I had recently with one of our sons.

1:00.6

I interviewed for this episode, the special episode of the Family Discibership Podcast.

1:05.3

I got the chance to interview one of the Griffin children, Mr. Augustine Joshua, the boy that we call Gus.

1:11.8

And Chelsea has not heard this, Cassie has not heard this.

1:14.4

But I want to play for you some of Gus's thoughts on our topic for today.

1:17.8

So our topic of this episode is talking to your littles about Santa.

1:22.1

And some of this will probably reveal some of the conversations that Chelsea and I have had with our kids about Santa.

1:26.9

But it's an important topic for a lot of Christians, a lot of confusion around how to handle these things and a lot of differences. So I want to ask you a couple questions before we play my interview with Gus to see if you can predict what Gus thinks about Santa. First question. Hold on. I feel like the competitive side of me feels like Chelsea has

1:45.1

the upper hand here. Well, for sure, but I didn't want to exclude you. Okay. Oh, no, that's great. I'm just,

1:50.7

I'm just saying I feel intimidated by Chelsea's knowledge of Gus and his personality. I'd like to

1:56.5

remind you that you're a winner, regardless. And I'd also like to tell you that Gus is fairly unpredictable.

2:02.7

That's great.

2:03.7

So was my middle.

2:04.6

My middle child is the same.

2:05.8

Okay, great.

2:06.2

Yeah, there are one of the cards.

2:07.5

Let's hear the question.

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