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Santa Claus?
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What age did your child figure it out or did u finally tell them about the truth of santa claus?
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Re: Santa Claus?
My 11 year old still believes, or at least she says she does.
I will never tell her "the truth." She's aware that most kids her age say that Santa is your parents, and I suspect that she knows, deep down, that this is true. But she wants to believe, and she wants the "magic" to continue. I will continue playing along with this until she tells me otherwise.
I have been kind of worried about what will happen as she gets older, and whether her younger brother will stop believing before she does. She actually asked about this recently. I said, "you know -- Santa only comes for kids. Before you guys were born, Dad and I just did it all. So at some point Dad and I will have to take over buying gifts for you, too."
She said, "Oh, right -- that makes sense." I think she's mostly worried that Not Believing = You Won't Get Presents. This conversation assured her that the presents would continue even if she doesn't continue to play along with the whole "Santa" thing.
As for the younger brother, he's starting to have serious questions and doubts about the whole thing. But it's easy for him to brush that off when he sees that his older, much-admired big sister is still a believer.
Personally, I LOVE playing Santa, and I consider this time of year to be one of the highlights of parenting. So I'm totally jazzed that I'm still getting to do this every year!!
Second, I totally agree--it's so much fun! Even my 2-year-old is really into Santa and the Elf on the Shelf. I love telling her about Santa and moving the Elf every night has become a fun game for DH and I.
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Oh jeese my 7 year old just asked me last week if Santa was real. It went like this.
DSD- mom is santa real?
Me-Why, do you think he is real?
DSD- yeah, but this boy in school said I was stupid and that Santa is a lie
Me-Ugh..well...If you believe in your heart that Santa is real than he is. It is just like Jesus and God you believe in them and they live in heart because you ask them to you choose to believe.
If you believe then he exists. But when a little kid decides not to believe then the parents buy all the gifts, so you need to tell us if you don't believe so dad and me can go shopping......
DSD- Oh no I believe, we need to go tell Santa I believe and he had BETTER be at my house.....
So we made a trip to see Santa...And I made sure to buy an extra roll of wrapping paper so Santa's gifts are in a different wrapping...
My bff still believed in Santa at age 11. She ended up being horribly embarrassed at school because she got into an argument w/another girl who said Santa wasn't real, etc. and was ridiculed by some other kids. She does Santa w/her own kids & plans to tell her kids before they get to that age.
Personally we've chosen not to do Santa, but I know we're in the minority & I'm certainly not a hater. We've never really said anything about Santa one way or another- never said he wasn't real, we just didn't do that for gifts & such. Both of my kids have a very strong conviction that he's not real, but I coach them about how they are never to tell other kids and we even role play about what to say when they are asked by another child what they requested from Santa for xmas. (The answer? Whatever you asked mom & dad for!) I was 5-6 when I figured out the Santa thing as i had much older siblings & honestly, I thought the whole thing was just kind of silly. Again, I realize I'm in the minority here!
My daughter just turned 10. She still believes even though her friends and classmates have said, "It's your parents." There are still some believers in 4th grade. I'm not sure what the percentage is.
We've always gotten presents for each other. They all go under the tree as we purchase them. Santa comes with his own gifts (in different wrapping) and fills the stockings.
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