My sister was 5 and found her list for Santa in my mum's jewellery box. So she immediately told my 3 year old brother and 1 year old me that he wasn't real. I don't remember this, I just know I've never believed he was real. I've always found it really odd that other people genuinely believed he was real and had to be told that he wasn't |
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My kids fully believe (I think...) but one goes to secondary school next year and I don't want her to find out from someone up there and be bullied for believing so this is her last year believing and it's honestly killing me that we have to tell her... Just don't know how to do it x |
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Don't think anyone told me. It was just a steady realisation..held to the belief for as long as possible, until I couldn't.
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"My kids fully believe (I think...) but one goes to secondary school next year and I don't want her to find out from someone up there and be bullied for believing so this is her last year believing and it's honestly killing me that we have to tell her... Just don't know how to do it x "
Perhaps it is better to tell them that the idea of Santa Claus is the spirit of human kindness and love, where we gift items not because we have too but because we want too, we personified this altruism as a jolly fat man with abundant kindness to acknowledge that we yearn to give but shy from gratitude.
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I never bought into the concept of it when I was a child, and it never sat well with me to play up to the whole Santa thing, I did not encourage or discourage it. My youngest hated Santa so it wasn't really a thing.
I find it disturbing that we encourage children to not speak to strangers or have strangers in the house yet we expect kids to buy into the concept of someone in your house while you sleep and because the stranger is dressed in Santa clothes we encourage them to speak.
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"My kids fully believe (I think...) but one goes to secondary school next year and I don't want her to find out from someone up there and be bullied for believing so this is her last year believing and it's honestly killing me that we have to tell her... Just don't know how to do it x
Perhaps it is better to tell them that the idea of Santa Claus is the spirit of human kindness and love, where we gift items not because we have too but because we want too, we personified this altruism as a jolly fat man with abundant kindness to acknowledge that we yearn to give but shy from gratitude.
But don’t ask me, I don’t have kids "
Fully agree with this tbh |
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"My kids fully believe (I think...) but one goes to secondary school next year and I don't want her to find out from someone up there and be bullied for believing so this is her last year believing and it's honestly killing me that we have to tell her... Just don't know how to do it x
Perhaps it is better to tell them that the idea of Santa Claus is the spirit of human kindness and love, where we gift items not because we have too but because we want too, we personified this altruism as a jolly fat man with abundant kindness to acknowledge that we yearn to give but shy from gratitude.
But don’t ask me, I don’t have kids "
Aww that's beautiful x x |
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"Don't think anyone told me. It was just a steady realisation..held to the belief for as long as possible, until I couldn't.
And the world took on a new shade of grey "
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"I never bought into the concept of it when I was a child, and it never sat well with me to play up to the whole Santa thing, I did not encourage or discourage it. My youngest hated Santa so it wasn't really a thing.
I find it disturbing that we encourage children to not speak to strangers or have strangers in the house yet we expect kids to buy into the concept of someone in your house while you sleep and because the stranger is dressed in Santa clothes we encourage them to speak.
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