I still like that she had this apotropaic title for him - The Red Guy. She *never* called him Santa. Like the Eumenides, or the Good People, his actual name was too powerful, and scary, to use.
I'd have gone for the guy's neck-job-life, but I was in extreme child-calming mode for a good long while. It was all rather astonishing.
But even lacking the drama, I don't think we'd have done the Santa thing either. Everyone has to invent their own how-to-parent, but it seemed important to me not to lie.
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Date: 2010-12-03 07:23 am (UTC)She *never* called him Santa.
Like the Eumenides, or the Good People, his actual name was too powerful, and scary, to use.
I'd have gone for the guy's neck-job-life, but I was in extreme child-calming mode for a good long while.
It was all rather astonishing.
But even lacking the drama, I don't think we'd have done the Santa thing either.
Everyone has to invent their own how-to-parent, but it seemed important to me not to lie.