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When do you tell kids the "truth" about Santa🧑‍🎄

What you do is STFU, let kids be kids, let them discover truth as they grow.

They will tell you when they need to know more.

I will guarantee you no one is in prison today or living on skid row because they believed in magic for "too long" as a child.

I have also noticed the people advocating for not telling kids that Santa is real, generally are pathetic people who are miserable and can't stand others being happy.

Lastly most also are childless. If you are childless you really can STFU about how parents do the work or raising kids. No one needs your opinion Karens.

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What do you mean "Truth about Santa "... are you saying that Santa is not real? 😟🥹 Say it ain't so Jack.

Jacob (Organix Farms) · 69w

My Older girls told me they knew Santa wasn’t real this year. I said “sounds like you won’t be getting a gift from him then” gotta believe to get the gift.

Brunswick · 69w

I did the "we aren't lying to our kids about Santa" thing. If I were to do it over again, I'd just neither confirm nor deny, but let the grandparents go whole hog.

I think mine is already gaming it. Knows how things roll. If she was to state not believing it would result in less presents. Was pretty exited meeting Santa though so maybe there's some belief left also.

MickBurke · 69w

I think that very astute. And when they DO figure it out, we and hopefully they, can bear in mind this quote from Teller (of Penn & Teller): "I think that the idea that your parents will sneak around and slip presents under the tree is much more beautiful and important than the idea of Santa Clause....

When she was about two she used to talk about how it wasn't real, now she is a bit of religious zealot about it all, even telling me to go to bed early because I might interrupt him 😆 https://image.nostr.build/3fb8bf8e07effd358356311933051f36285fa094e8d198d8bfc8e36e0413c7fe.jpg

Commander0G · 69w

The kids of my work colleague played along believing in Santa until they were in their teens because they thought their dad believed it and they didn’t want to destroy his beliefs.

What's wrong with it just being a fun story?

Never lie to your children.