How long did your kids believe in Santa?

I think I might get one more year out of my 11 year old son... So long as some jackhat doesnt spoil it.

My girl I think I have a few years left, so long as if he figures it out he doesnt spoil it.

Just curious....

 

i went till about 9 or 10 i think.

 

I believed till I was 12. To keep your son's mouth shut tell him.... "you only recieve, if you believe" I still believe in santa (my Daddy) He's warned me if I ever stop believing, Ill stop recieving! If you don't think that will work, tell him he got to enjoy "santa" and he shouldn't ruin it for his sister.

 

Wow, what kind of sheltered life did you folks live, that's kinda old I'd think, I don't know for sure how old I was, but I know I wasn't near that old. I believe that you do you're kids, and anybody esle you have contact with, a complete diservice by trying to shelter them from what the world is really like. Don't need to try to scare them, just be honest.

 

uh, excuse me. Believing in Santa does not harm a child. a CHILD! a child deserves to believe in magic, soon he/she will realize there is no such thing, but they will look back to when they believed a fat man in a red suit came down a chimney, through a keyhole, the front door, or whatever else the parent did to get them to believe, and wish they could go back to when life was that simple and easy.

IN FACT. I did not live a sheltered life. My daddy was good to me, but everyone else in my family was freaking nuts. (if you'd like to know more about it feel free to message me)


and it sounds like you had a rough childhood, and I'm sorry you did, but for you to say that a child doesn't NEED or SHOULDN'T believe in something is low down, and I truely hope that if you have kids you change your mind, you would be causing your child to miss out on something so special that only lasts a little while.

and what in the heck does the "real world" have to do with believing in Santa? In cause you didnt know...there really was a santa claus

 

WHAT santa aint real what the heck

 

We have put black soot on my boots and walked from the fire place to the tree, I have picked up sheep poo and thrown it on the roof... Eaten cookies and diet coke, Cookies and egg nog, Cookies and milk... Cookies and soy milk...

 

Easy, didn't mean for that to come across harsh, or anything like that. What I meant was that by just watching primetime television, they pretty much give it away. And actually I think I had a very nice childhood, and I guess you can blame my belief in complete 100% honesty on my mother taking me to church weekly for alot of years. I guess I just have always put alot of extra thought into the details of pretty much everything around me, sorta like how Beagle is an epic over-analyzer, I'm not near as bad though. So if I offended anyone, sorry not my intent, I personaly have just never been into any of the fantasy/disney type stuff, more of a PBS fan growing up.

 

My Daddy used to take rabbit poop and put on the front porch to make me believe reindeer were there. I have a lot of plans for my little one once he/she gets here and is old enough! ( snow in the house, dip a boot in water then in baking soda, leaves behind a shimery effect "magic snow" if you live somewhere that doesnt snow, santa lost a button, or reindeer lost a bell, things like that and seeing a childs face...best thing)


You are just on a sensitive subject. I'm sure like most people, Christmas is my favorite holiday, for a multitude of reasons. and I ASSURE YOU watching primetime does NOTHING to a child. there is soo much christmas movies with santa being pretrayed a various of ways, a child picks the santa they believe is most real, and the rest is "just tv" to them.

I also was a PBS kid. (still watch it sometimes just to see whats up)

P.S. I also over analyze, and emotions do not go well over the internet. Plus I'm pregnant, so everything is a disaster or an emergency right now. You were just 1 of many victims

 

I was 11 when I was told about santa.

I hope my daughter is the same age but,I don't think it will happen in this day in age and she is 3 now.