How am I going to deal with Santa Claus issue this year?

Question

I have a 12 year old girl , yes she still believes. I honestly, love the innocence. I have been reading about the gal with the 9 yr old/ and 10 month. I was just crying over your answers. I believe she knows but just doesn't want to verbalize it. She asks me questions like Are you Santa? I have skirted the answer. I mean she was devasted about tooth fairy. So this will be even harder. I figured I would pull up the legend of Santa Claus and let her read that. She realizes Christmas is more than presents and we sing Happy Birthday to Jesus. I have kept it alive as I see the magic in her eyes. We watched past Christmas morning videos and I try to remind her of that enchantment. With all that is bombarding kids today I guess I just want to hold on to this as long as I can.

Answer 1

Why not just let nature take it's course? If she wants to believe then she will, otherwise she won't, will she? My Daughters continued to "believe" because they liked the idea of getting "extra" things picked specifically from their " Santa List" when they were Teenagers. We all knew they knew but so what? Kids are Kids for such a short time anymore,being made to grow up way too soon,so why not leave the "legend" in her heart and allow her to deal with it as she wants?

Answer 2

I'm 28 years old and my mom still will not actually say that Santa isn't real. We laugh about how she and Santa seem to have the same handwriting and that we don't have a fireplace so he's obviously picking the locks. You can tell her most people don't believe in Santa but that's it's some sort of magical mystery. You could even say that these days, Santa doesn't visit houses anymore but you really don't know for certain if he ever did exist in the past. You can tell her that a few people think he's retired. Leave it as "no one actually knows for sure" and that it may just be an old story but it also may be true. Sometimes lies are based on a truth anyway. I'm not sure what you're supposed to say if she asks who brought her gifts in the past. I used to ask my mom and she would smile, laugh and just say she didn't know where all of them came from but most were from her. Best of luck with this one!

Answer 3

She probably knows who Santa is or she would not be asking questions. She may want to perpetuate the magic of the holiday. I still remember when I believed in Santa and how wonderful the holidays were just because of that. Christmas hasn't been the same for me since. I wish I could re coupe the lost innocence, sight!

Answer 4

I think that the moment that a child asks about the reality of Santa, it is only fair to tell the truth. She obviously is quite a bit older than most children who still believe in Santa Claus, and I don't really see the benefit of continuing on, especially since she's clearly doubting it anyway. The longer you keep lying to her about Santa, the more hurt and upset she'll be when she eventually knows the truth.

Answer 5

these days we are just more aware when it comes to the tooth fairy and santa clause, I knew that both were fake since I was 4 years old, some times it is just better to explain the true reason for having christmas and tell them about where santa really came from, there is a good history or discovery channel program that you could find online that explains the history of santa

Answer 6

Easy! With Reason:-

CHRISTMAS IS LIKE SANTA CLAUS

You know the Fatman is a fake and a lie, but you go along with it anyway, as you deceive the kids and make them future liars to their own kids.

The Dictionary of the Bible says that: By the 5th. Century, the Church (of Rome) had concerned itself enough to have set December 25 as the date of Jesus’ birth. This had been the date of the Festival of the Sun God Zeus and to the Christians a greater light was come, Jesus Christ, the true light of the World.

Fact is - the Sun God is Zeus, and Jesus is really Jezeus, and the Romans worshipped Zeus, and you can see Barnabas being called Zeus by the Priests of Zeus in the Acts of the Apostles 14:12-13, in the Bible. Mithra was another son of Zeus, but Je-Zeus was Zeus come down as his own son, which made him strictly a Roman God.

Sunday is also the day that was set aside for worship of the Sun God (Zeus) by the Romans.

The Winter Solstice gives us the shortest day in the year, December 22, as the birth of the new Sun, so Rome shifted it to the 25 December in order to celebrate the Feast of the Circumcision eight days later, on 1 January, in accepting Jezeus Christos as the Living God of the Sun risen from the dead.

Zeus and the Fathers of Christianity did not know there was a Southern Hemisphere that did not share the Sun God Zeus or his four seasons, or his twelve disciples or twelve months of the year with the Northern Hemisphere, and it is for this reason that Australia celebrates Christmas twice each year, with the White Christmas falling in June but is called Christmas in July since they know it is a lie.

So Christmas and Christianity were as ignorant of the nature of the Planet as was Santa Claus of the South Pole, and just as the Pope was afraid that Christopher Columbus might fall off the flat Planet in his attempt to reach India traveling westwards, so were Santa Claus and Zeus afraid to go below the Planet and into the Fires of Hell.

When Pope John Paul ii declared the Shroud of Turin a medieval fake after having it scientifically carbon-dated in 1988, he failed to point out that the Bible describes the use of two shrouds, with one for the head and another for the “body” of the 100 lbs of aloes and myrrh, the other perfect hoax.

TRY SOME HONESTY THIS YEAR.
EXPOSE THE FRAUD OF SANTA THE UNHOLY.

BRING THE TRUTH OF THE MESSIAH FROM THE QURAN TO LIGHT SO THAT MEN WHO ARE BORN BLIND MIGHT SEE THAT THE ONE TRUE GOD CAN HAVE NO SON OR NO PARTNER
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HE IS ONE, HE ALWAYS WAS, HE IS, AND HE ALWAYS WILL BE!

PEACE ON EARTH AND GOODWILL TO ALL OF HUMANITY!

Was it Jesus who said, “Think not that I am come to send Peace on Earth. I came not to send Peace but a Sword.” Matthew 10:34?

So! Christmas is like Santa Claus, and so is the naming of the baby Jesus since the Gospels exclude the mother from this false naming of the child and the prophecy of Isaiah 7:14, states that the mother shall name the child “Immanuel”.

Answer 7

She knows or has a strong idea that there is no man in a red and white suit with jolly red cheeks and reindeer pulled sleigh. If you do decide to tell her, just try to teach her the meaning of Santa and spirit of giving to others, not just the ones you love but the ones less fortunate. I do think that at one point, there was a "Santa Claus" and his joy of giving just stayed and spread to make him a legend after he had died.

Answer 8

I am very surprised that t age 12 she still believes in Santa - usually once kids start school they find out the truth! At 12 she should know the truth ~

Answer 9

WOW! How did you manage to do it for so long? I understand you don't want to disappoint her even when you have been lying to her for 12 years. Therefore you have to be really careful in the way you say things. Let her know how you really feel about everything, all the good emotions that you wanted her to experience, the illusion that every child should have, the happiness and accomplishment of being a good child and receiving her reward for it. I'm sure she is old enough to understand.

Answer 10

At 12 years old there's no way she shouldnt know the truth! Does she not go to school, or have any friends? At 12 I was experamenting with cigarettes and long past the believing in santa stage...