Do your kids still believe in Santa?

[Pakey]

I wish mine still did, I loved the anticipation!

Alas, he'll be 18 in a couple of months so he emailed me his list with links and all....

Wait until it's just cash on the list.

 

[npmommie]

Yes, my DD still believes. She thinks that santa's at the mall are his helpers and that the real one is at the North Pole except for in the summer. We go see him at his summer house at Santa's Village in NH.

 

[disneychrista]

she nonchalantly said "nope.....and while we're at it there's no tooth fairy or easter bunny either."

Why do we "lie" to our kids (I did it too) only to have to break their hearts?

If I had to do it over, I would likely never start he whole santa is a man in a Big Red suit, etc, etc, etc. I like the spirt of Christmas much better...

 

[okeydokey]

Why do we "lie" to our kids (I did it too) only to have to break their hearts?

If I had to do it over, I would likely never start he whole santa is a man in a Big Red suit, etc, etc, etc. I like the spirt of Christmas much better...

Who said it breaks their hearts. My dd wasn't heartbroken and I think my ds will be just fine too when it's his turn to find out.

 

[wdwmom0f3]

This will be the first year that my son, the youngest, knows about Santa. My other two children hated that he found out because they loved making him worry about his behavior.

Of course I tell them that if you don't believe, you don't receive.

 

[DawnM]

No, but we have never really done Santa at our house.

 

[luvsJack]

Who said it breaks their hearts. My dd wasn't heartbroken and I think my ds will be just fine too when it's his turn to find out.

Never broke the hearts of my three either. I never actually told them either. If they asked when they were little, my answer was always "I believe in Santa, but you will have to make up your own mind". They never questioned beyond that (who knows, maybe I should tell ds so he will know that he really does have to buy dgd's gifts! ).

I didn't lie, I do believe in Santa and everything he stands for.

 

[tigger813]

I think DD1 has figured it out, but we do say if you don't believe you don't receive. She will keep it special for her little sister though.

When DD1 was 3 she came in the bathroom while I was showering and said, "There's no such thing as Santa!" Don't know where that came from. But then she forgot all about it.

We plan on watching Polar Express this weekend. We were listening to the soundtrack in the car yesterday and DD1 said she wanted to watch it.

I don't consider it lying to them I consider it letting them be kids and having something to make the holidays special. We love Christmas!

 

[ilovejack02]

Didn't take long for the lying to our kids discussion to come up ; ) .


Not sure what DS8 thinks, but I think he is on the fence about it . Last year he asked if Santa is real but then walked away before we could have a talk about it . I don't think he wanted to hear the answer . He asked a few days ago when Jingle the elf was going to start visiting .

Jingle is our little sneaky elf that reports back to Santa how he behaves during the month of Dec.

 

[disneychrista]

All I know youngest DD was very upset and wanted to know why I had lied to her. She also said that she didn't know if she would ever believe anything I told her again. So I would say she was "heartbroken." And at that point so was I.

 

[npmommie]

Never broke the hearts of my three either. I never actually told them either. If they asked when they were little, my answer was always "I believe in Santa, but you will have to make up your own mind". They never questioned beyond that (who knows, maybe I should tell ds so he will know that he really does have to buy dgd's gifts! ).

I didn't lie, I do believe in Santa and everything he stands for.

This is what I will say too. I do believe in Santa and the spirit of christmas and what he stands for.
as for the tooth fairy and easter bunny, it will come out eventually that I am the tooth fairy and the easter bunny!

 

[BellvilleDad]

DS13 has never asked. He doesn't want to risk blowing a good thing!

DD9 asked her mom last week if he was real, and wanted her mom to look her in the eye and swear he was real. Obviously, there's a spoilsport in her class. DW, in a panic, said she'd have to ask daddy...but she didn't. She's never before really asked for anything for Christmas. A couple days ago she brought me a toy catalog with a very expensive list attached. I think she's testing the money limits of Santa now.

 

[2girlsmom]

Last year Catie, then 9, told me she knew I was "santa" as far as the presents/stockings are concerned. So this year we have been preemptive and told the kids all about St Nicholas again, and how the idea of Santa Claus got going, etc, but that Mom and Dad gave the presents in Santa's name. Meag(12) told me yesterday that she knows the kids at school don't believe in Santa/Tooth Fairy/Easter Bunny, so she doesn't talk about it, but SHE KNOWS they are real, and refuses to accept that they are an idea or a spirit or anything of the sort.

 

[grumpeeduck]

Why do we "lie" to our kids (I did it too) only to have to break their hearts?

If I had to do it over, I would likely never start he whole santa is a man in a Big Red suit, etc, etc, etc. I like the spirt of Christmas much better...

dd12 was sure heartbroken when she found out. There is really no way around it, either.