Santa Clause is real!!!!!

[JCShutout]

Bah. Kids just keep faking that the believe in Santa because they are afraid if they own up it will their parents won't be compelled to give them Santa presents each Christmas.

Except Wart. He believed.

That's pretty much what youth was for me. Faking belief in santa for fear of losing extra presents.

Too funny, I thought I was the only one who did this. I knew it was my parents when I was about 8, I ased Santa for one thing, and told my parents something else, I got waht I told my parents I had told Santa, but I faked it for another few years.

The thing is, if I want to tell my child the truth, I should be able to do that, not have her find out by watching TV.

I'd say I had it figured out some time between 5 and 7. I can understand your frustration, but if you don't want your kid seeing that, then you just have to stop her watching tv. That would be like me complaining if I wanted my kid (I don't have one for the record) to not be exposed to violence, but continued to watch tv, which has a lot of violence. Its a crappy choice, but I'd have to stop watching tv.

[wart57]

Bah. Kids just keep faking that the believe in Santa because they are afraid if they own up it will their parents won't be compelled to give them Santa presents each Christmas.

Except Wart. He believed.

That's pretty much what youth was for me. Faking belief in santa for fear of losing extra presents.

Too funny, I thought I was the only one who did this. I knew it was my parents when I was about 8, I ased Santa for one thing, and told my parents something else, I got waht I told my parents I had told Santa, but I faked it for another few years.

The thing is, if I want to tell my child the truth, I should be able to do that, not have her find out by watching TV.

I'd say I had it figured out some time between 5 and 7. I can understand your frustration, but if you don't want your kid seeing that, then you just have to stop her watching tv. That would be like me complaining if I wanted my kid (I don't have one for the record) to not be exposed to violence, but continued to watch tv, which has a lot of violence. Its a crappy choice, but I'd have to stop watching tv.

But I want to be like all the other parents out there, I want to change the world so I don't have to have any tough talks with my daughter....

[docellis]

I believed for way too long. I was like 10 or 11? My cousins ruined it for me or I'd have kept believing.