Feeling judged by my co-workers for my parenting style.

Everyone at my job seems to have children all around the same age. At lunch we love to share stories from our kid's lives but I've noticed a disturbing trend where people are visibly disturbed by some of my parenting stories or outright question why I would make certain choices. I've even had one go as far as to say my daughter is going to grow up "different" because of how I parent.As an example, we don't teach our daughter to believe in a literal santa claus. We teach her the story of St. Nicholas, and the Christian meaning behind modern Christmas, but we don't allow family to give her gifts "From: Santa" and she knows the Santa at the mall is an actor.I'm the only person at my work who does this. When I told everyone, you would have though I admitted to putting out cigarettes on her arms every day by the looks on their faces. Questions like "What are you going to do when other kid's ask her about Santa?" and "Why would you want to deprive your girl of her childhood and it's magic?"Even after explaining that I want my daughter to be a critical thinker and to know she can always trust that I'm honest with her, it did nothing to change their doubts.My daughter is 4 and recently my wife and I found out she's pregnant with number 2! We told our daughter and of course she had lots of questions. I'm discussing this with my co-workers, about how I handled her questions.Daddy, how did the baby get in mommy's belly?Daddy put the baby in her belly.How?You know how a seed gets planted in the ground and grows into a flower? Daddy had a seed and he put it in mommy's belly. It's growing into a baby now.How does the baby come out of mommy?When it's done growing it will come out of mommy's privates.......She wasn't traumatized or even disturbed by any of the conversation. I wanted to answer her with honest, simple, age appropriate answers.The looks on my co-worker's faces. You would have thought I had told them I slaughter puppies for a living.So I asked them, well how did you discuss this with your children?They told their kids that God put the baby in mommy. Then they asked me, "What is your daughter going to tell other kids when they say God put the baby in mommy?"I said, "Hopefully the truth. It's not my problem that some parents aren't frank with their kids. Yes, God gives life....but we all know how the baby got there." I haven't shown my kid any nudity, said anything lewd or dishonest.I'm completely alone here. We're in the deep south and everyone I work with is conservative Christian and I'm a Christian as well and somewhat conservative (or so I thought) but I've always valued critical thought and honesty. It just feels so lonely when I feel like I'm being judged because everyone else's child believes in Santa and thinks God placed their brother in mommies belly and so I fear the day I get a parent complaining to me that my daughter told their daughter that daddy put the baby in mommies belly with his seed.Have I gone too far? Was I too honest for her age? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2hus1zg