Poll: Do you encourage your kids to believe in Santa?

Parenting contributor and local psychoanalyst Kerry Kelly Novick has a column today about the sometimes-contentious issue of whether parents should encourage their children to believe in Santa.

She writes, in part:

"There is a crucial difference, to my mind, between sharing values and beliefs of your own with your children, as you do with religion or morality, and telling them something is true that you don’t actually believe. If you believe in Santa Claus too, then you aren’t lying to your child. If you don’t believe in Santa Claus, and say that he is real, you are lying to your child. I’ve stated this bluntly, for the sake of the logic of the situation, but I do have a solution to suggest that is based in the history of the Santa Claus idea."

What do you think? Take the poll!