Santa

[Jenvenza]

My parents never told us. I was around 15 and had known for a LOOOOONG time and my mom came to me and said we needed to talk! She knew I knew, but it was so funny her coming to me at that age to tell me!

I cannot imagine me ever telling my DD either. Why ruin the fun?

 

[mickeyboat]

My parents told me at Easter time when I was in 4th grade. I had absolutely no idea, but they were afraid other kids would pick on me if I believed.

Dds are in 4th grade this year. They had suspicions last Christmas, but came right out and asked a few weeks ago, so I told them the truth.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

I have a sad tale for this one. I was 4. My dad left when I was 3 and left us with nothing. (I guess I should also mention that I was an only child, as well as first born grandchild on both sides, so I knew, even by 3 that it was all about me. ) Things were really, really tight. My mom did her best. She bought 2 Barbies and a few outfits, wrapping everything separately, as well as a few other little gifts. Like most kids, I had assumed my dad leaving was my fault, no matter what anyone said. Christmas morning I woke up, looked under the tree and burst into tears. My mom woke up a little while later and found me sitting on the couch crying. When she asked why I was crying, I told her that Santa was mad at me for making daddy leave and that's why he only brought me a few toys. My mom was devastated. She had tried to make it the best Christmas possible and did not want me to live with the idea that I was to blame for everything and Santa was punishing me, so she told me the truth. I was a smart kid, so I immediately made mention that if Santa wasn't real, then neither was the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, etc. It all fell to crap that year. Well, we survived that Christmas and I continued to act as if I hadn't been told, it was just easier for both of us to look for the spirit of Christmas and other holidays. I'm grateful that my mom told me, because I really had believed everything was my fault and that I was bad. I never told another child because I realized that wasn't fair.

 

[Becky2005]

I've always known. Luckily for me, Santa didn't skip our house just because of that.

 

[kldmom2000]

"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

"VIRGINIA O'HANLON.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

 

[DreaminDisney]

my parents never told me and I will never tell my kids...

 

[brockash]

I actually found out about Santa, when I found out about the tooth fairy. I apparently had decided that I wanted to try to get one by the tooth fairy, and put a kernal of corn under my pillow one night (I think I was 9 or 10) and the tooth fairy didn't come. A few days later I asked my mom if the tooth fairy was real, and she told me the truth and then I asked about Santa, Easter Bunny ect. I thought I was so cool at the time, because my younger sisters of course still believed. I'm wondering when I'm going to get asked by my ds (7 almost 8) He's made a few comments here and there, but nothing big yet.

 

[AustinTink]

You might as well not believe in fairies!

I believe in fairies and a mouse that wears red pants. So, of course, I believe in Santa!

 

[CptJackSparrowsGirl]

I was never able to believe in him I knew there was a real Saint Nicholas, but not a fat guy that flew around in a sleigh delivering toys. My dad is a pastor so he didn't want us believeing in something that wasn't real. But I still watched the movies and think if there was a Santa Tim Allen is the best one

 

[cheermom1]

we believe, yeppers we do. my kids are 16 and 15 and they know he is not real but they have never said so they can keep getting presents. but my stepsons well that is a different story i can't keep it alive if their mom takes them shopping with her and has them pick out their presents and then just gives them to them with out wrapping or anything. dh asked her last year what was the point and she said b/c everyone else is doing it ...oh well nothing i can do..

But my kids and if/when i have grandkids you bet i'll keep it alive for them

 

[NikitaZee]

My parents never told me - I figured it out one Christmas when I was about 9. I got a chalkboard from Santa, and he had written a note on it in handwriting that looked exactly like my mother's. I told them I knew, the gig was up, etc., but they denied it and denied it. Now I know not to write any Santa notes to my kids unless I disguise my handwriting

 

[C&OsMommy]

I think I was about in 4-5th grade or so, around 9-10 and *I* asked my mom and got the "spirit of Santa" talk. If I didn't continue to believe, there would be no presents. I also got the don't tell your little brother speech and I am SHOCKED that my two older siblings weren't the ones to spoil it for me.