It's that time of year filled with Christmas cheer, presents, and the ever-present parental question: Do we tell the kids the truth about Santa Claus? (And if you don't know what that truth is ...

And I have my own suspicions that Lola, eight, already knows the truth despite her claims otherwise – some of her friends, at least, definitely know Santa and the elf aren’t real. I say ...

From time to time, I wonder how I’d respond to that famous little girl, Virginia, who wrote to New York’s Sun in 1897 asking, “Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?” The ...