Ep. 562 - Telling Kids the Truth About Santa, the Tooth Fairy & WWE!

**Matt Lavelle** (0:00)
Well, hello, and welcome to the Working Perspectives Podcast, episode 562 Today, on Four Dads, Bye Dads, we're tackling the ultimate parenting minefield. That's right, we're talking the truth. We're talking about the truth. The truth about Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and everybody's favorite, WWE. How do you break this news without breaking your kid's heart? It's gonna be tough. We're gonna have a mix of nostalgia, some hilarious parenting fails, and genuine advice on navigating the kids and, you know, how to spray this on them while they're growing up. It's gonna be tough, but it's gonna be a lot of fun. Super excited. I'm Matt Lavelle, accompanied as always by Benditi Padalini, Bern Podcasy, and Le Schmigle, Liam Reese, the most handsome man in town. This is the Working Perspectives Podcast, episode 562
We're telling the truth today. Let's get started.
Alright, fellas, let's get down, let's get dirty, let's get into it. Alright, so, you know, I mean, let's start right off with the highest stakes myth that's usually the hardest truth to navigate, right? But, ah, man, it breaks your heart.
I have a daughter who's six, who's heavy into the game with the big red guy. You know, I'm talking old Santy Claus, right? Full believer, true believer, right? But I know eventually she is gonna ruin it for my son to be a dick, because that's what older siblings do. But I just, you know, I'm trying to protect her from it and everything like that. So, you know, we have some gifts that's from us and gifts that's from this or whatever. You know, a big thing we do is both my kid's birthdays are right before Christmas. So we'll take some, you know, some leftovers from the birthday gifts, so they're not getting 20 gifts for their birthday and then getting, you know, whatever. And we'll have a couple stragglers we'll throw in the Christmas pile. You know what I mean? They don't know the difference, big fun. But keeping up the mystery of like, dude, it's fun. Like we do, you know, Santa, like we'll have some like, you know, we got the LR elf is invisible, which was smart move from my wife. Oh, so we'll have some. Yeah. Brilliant stuff. We got an invisible elf. Sometimes he has some hijinks. You know, it is what it is. But Le Schmig, well, I'll go actually, Bern, I want to go to you first because your son's right on the cusp. And you got a daughter that's still in high belief stage. Right. So, yeah, where are we at?

**Bern Podcasy** (2:45)
So this is funny. So my son still believes, right? And we do the same thing. We know mom and dad get some presents for him and then Santa gets other presents for him. Now, the way my son is wired, I think he's going to find it funnier.
I don't think he'll spoil it for my daughter when he knows. Because I think he the way he's wired, he's going to get off more. I'm being like, oh, shit, I'm in on you like, you know what I mean? OK, I think he's going to be I think he's going to be more Jack is his personality about being like, oh, man, she has no idea what a dummy like, look at that idiot over there has no idea. And he's not going to want to really say it. Exactly, exactly.

**Matt Lavelle** (3:23)
He's not going to want to read the same thing three years ago.

**Bern Podcasy** (3:26)
Yeah, I think 10 minutes ago.
But I know he's going to fourth grade, like kids are going to start chatting, they're going to start chirping. There's nothing you can really do.

**Matt Lavelle** (3:36)
It's not you.
It's not going to be you that ruins it for him. It's fucking shit dick Johnny, you know?

**Bern Podcasy** (3:43)
If their personalities were reversed and my daughter was the older one with the personality she has now, the first thing she knew is just so you know, there's no such thing as blah, blah, blah. So I'm kind of happy to work that out.

**Matt Lavelle** (3:57)
That's women for you.

**Bern Podcasy** (3:59)
Yeah, she does not keep secrets, right?

**Matt Lavelle** (4:02)
Nice. All right, Lashmix. What about you? Your daughter's 11, right?

**Liam Reese** (4:08)
It's it's over.

**Matt Lavelle** (4:09)
You what? I mean, do you recall when and how?

**Liam Reese** (4:13)
Yeah, it's not like you guys were talking about. It's like it's always some shithead at school. You know, it's always some some older shitbag at school, like says, like, you know, on the bus or something, you know what? You want to know who you want to know what made it worse? You brought it up. Fuck that goddamn elf. Whoever came up with that is a complete moron monster. Like, OK, it's one thing to sit there and and sell that there's one guy that comes one night and does all this. And you only have to you only have to move in secret one night in December. No, let's set it up so that every fucking day of December you have to do this. So then some not some mornings you're scrambling to get it done. Dude, what a horrible idea.