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Believing is actually a learned behavior. Your child's trust in you leads them to hold anything you say, do or believe as true. That is until they meet others who will try to instill doubt. If you set the basis of trust and love most children will take your word over anybody else's for a long time. So this is where you need to start when trying to help your child write a letter to Santa.

Find your own inner child again and believe, believe in the magic of Christmas and Santa Claus. Not only will you lead as an example for your child it is also great fun to forget all the fact based adult stuff for a while. In our house we have a rule, if you don't believe in Santa he can't bring you any presents. While this may sound crazy it works. Even our teenagers will proudly tell their friends they believe. This helps immensely with keeping the fantasy alive for our younger kids and to keep our family traditions alive. Of course knowing they can withstand peer pressure is a nice added bonus for a mother.

So your children believe in Santa. Now you can set the stage for the all important letter. Of course you could just hand them a piece of paper and tell them to write, but that would just be a waste of a great opportunity for educational and emotional growth. You would lose out on quality time spent with your kids, and as fast as they grow up you shouldn't waste a minute watching them grow.

Spend time reading Christmas stories further deepening the understanding of what Christmas is really about. Of course the stories should be age appropriate. Keep it entertaining and add lots of conversations. Explain the importance of being good and thinking of others.

Collect some toy catalogs and let the little ones go through them and pick out things they may want. They may even cut out pictures to use in their letter. This is a great opportunity to find out about your child's wishes. Even the child that wants a pony more than anything is sure to find something in a toy catalog that strikes his or her fancy.

Purchase some extra special paper for the letter. You can even take your kids and have them pick out the paper they like. If you can fit it in your budget add some star or other Christmas theme stickers to the shopping list for decoration. Glitter pens are also great to make it look festive and inspire creative little minds.

Now it is time to write the letter. While older kids can write them on their own younger ones will of course need help. Depending on the age you can either write

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