Should children be encouraged to believe in mythical characters such as Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy? I don't think children should be encouraged to believe in mythical characters such as Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy. Some of the reasons that I feel this way is that children sometimes become scared for life when they find out Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny are not real. Another reason …showed first 75 words of 560 total…

…showed last 75 words of 560 total…not be encoursged to believe in mythical characters such as Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy. The main reason that I feel this way is that you should never lie to your child. If you tell your child lying is wrong and you go and tell he or she a lie about a mythical character then you have just contradicted yourself. You have lied after telling your child that lying is wrong.