How to teach your child to be a good consumer

Formation of a materialistic mind

Santa Claus:

A perfect business conception   

When your child is small, all he wants is to have his biological needs, and his need for love, fulfilled. 

Those are his "values" in life.

 

Many (most?) parents introduces to him, when he is still very little, the notion that having "things" is of great value, by lying to him about the true existence of an invented commercial creature, (invented by the Coca-Cola company)  called Santa Claus.

The parent does this often out of a sentimental feeling that it is "great that the child lives in a fantasy world, and you can make him believe in anything at all."

The media, even the "news" and the weather forecast crews on the telly, takes part in this, for the presumed benefit of the child, to increase his excitement in the coming of this Provider of all "good"  (material) things.

If the same parents also believes in God, and teaches their child to believe in God, we can see the problem.

Because when the child realizes that Santa Claus is not real, that they were only having fun with him because he was young and innocent, what conclusions will he draw about the teaching he received about God?