At what age did your kids stop believing?

[Serena]

Kelsea stopped believing when I told her the truth as my husband saw it.

She broke her arm and needed x-rays. I was explaining it to her and she asked if it would hurt and some more questions. I asked her if I had ever lied to her about anything and she said no.
My husband was standing right there and said yes I had, about santa.
He was in one of his moods. I tried to smooth things over, but it didn't work. I ended up having to tell her.

Me and Kelsea agreed that we were going to believe anyway, no matter what he said. But I knew she was just trying to make me feel better.

 

[WDWfanatic288]

i was 6 or 7

for like a year I was begging my mom to tell me the truth about it and then one day she did and I started crying...lol


my bro still believes...well he hasn't come out and asked yet and he's 10! lol

 

[minnieandmickey]

DD 9 still believes, DS was 8 when he stopped(he's 13 now). Funny thing about DS is that he still expected money from the toothfairy, until I told him that the toothfairy was Santa's daughter and she's mad that you don't believe in him.

 

[JLSE50]

DS#1 came home from kindergarten one fall day and asked if Santa is "really real"? I got a brainstorm and asked him what he thought. He replied that he thought Santa was a pretend. I agreed and said that he is a pretend that even grown-ups like. Then I asked if he was going to tell anyone else at school and he very seriously said NO !

From then on I would ask if he wanted to help Santa by putting some candies in everyone's stocking or another treat.

With DS#2 it was never discussed. He always was a realist, but never will mess with another's enjoyment of "pretends" like Santa and the WDW characters.

We all have stockings--still hang all four--DS#1 is 26 and DS#2 is 22. We expect both here for Christmas. The stockings are hanging already and a few treats are hidden away to be loaded in Christmas eve.

Jan

 

[Feralpeg]

When my DD was eight, she began questioning Santa. She would tell me that the kids at school said that he did not exist. I would always ask her if she thought that he did. I told her that as long as she believed he would be there. That seemed to appease her. When she was ten, she told me that she really wanted to know the truth. I asked her if she was sure and she said yes. She wanted to know if I was Santa. When I told her yes, she got big tears in her eyes. It almost killed me! So, in an attempt to regain some of the lost magic, I told her that Santa was the spirit of Christmas. I told her that I believed because I love Christmas and what it stands for. I explained that having someone bring presents was just a small part of it. She seemed to accept that, but I could tell she was still disappointed. Last year, she was thirteen. We were watching a show on television about Christmas miracles. The show told about a poor family that couldn't afford Christmas presents and had very little to eat until a stranger came to their door. The stranger brought them presents. Although he never went in the kitchen, the mom later found several bags of groceries. When the family looked outside, there were no footprints in the snow. My daughter was really taken by this show. Afterword, she told me that she still believes in Santa. She believes that he does not go to the homes of kids whose parents can afford to give them gifts. He only goes to those homes where the parents are unable to be Santa. She's fourteen now and still belives this. I think it is great that she is so open to possibilities. By the way, she also believes that dragons were real!