How old were you when you learned the truth about Santa?

Question

Children these days are learning too fast and it spolis the magic of Christmas. How old were you and do you wish you had not found out until much later?

Answer 1

Hello.

I was 7 when i found out. i actually forced myself to stay awake and catch santa, When i heard my door open i pretended to be asleep. I heard what i thought was santa creeping about and laying pressents at the bottom of my bed and then i sat up and said "merry christmas santa" and saw my mum n dad!!!!!!!! They was going to tell me that santa had hurt his foot lol and left my pressents at the frontdoor for them to put in my room.

But...........They decided they had been caught out so told me the truth. I guess at the time the excitment disappeared. Id always helped mum to put a mince pie and a glass of milk on the kitchen table for santa and always left some carrots by our front door with a note saying "for santas reindeer". Every morning, id jump up and before opening my pressents id run out to the kitchen to check he'd been. There would be a few crumbs left on the plate where the mince pie had been and the glass of milk would be empty. The carrots too had gone and on my note he had written thankyou.

I guess i realised that THAT part of christmas wouldnt happen again. If i had my way i would of proberly liked to of believed for a few more years till i was atleast 9. But guess we all grow up sometimes lol.

Which reminds me i must buy santa some mince pies this year and some carrots for his riendeers.......lol

Answer 2

Think I found out that Santa was actually my dad when I was about 6 or 7 in c1948. Do not think it changed anything really because I'm not sure exactly what I thought at that age, except I had a front tooth missing and the Tooth Fairy put a new one in.

Childhood is very important but it only really lasts as long as the pre-puberty years. Most children are already turning into adults by the time they reach ten and the usual onset of puberty.

Children today grow up much faster today than my generation.

Answer 3

We were never allowed to believe in it because my mother believed until she was 10 and got a shock when she discovered the truth (OK, that was in the 30's) and felt betrayed. So instead, she had her children "be Santa" for each other; she would take us individually on shopping trips to get presents for the others, and we would also help her wrap the presents for each other.
I think this is a good thing, it taught us the family basis of giving and loving...and that there *isn't* magic about getting presents, they cost money and they don't just appear. This was particularly helpful in a few years when times were hard for the family and there wasn't much money for any extras...if we had been taught to believe in "magic" presents we wouldn't have understood when she said, "Name one present you really, really want and we'll see if we can manage."
The true magic of Christmas lies in love expressed and recieved, not in material things. Love people, use things--not the other way around.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

I believe children should always be told the truth, whether it be about father christmas, fairies at the bottom of the garden or whatever. If they are told the truth when they are small children, then they trust you to tell them the truth later in life when it really matters. I was told at an early age that it was "really mummy and daddy" that brings the presents and leaves the stocking at the bottom of the bed. It didn't upset me at all. I still had the presents and the stocking and fully trusted, that later in life when I asked those all important questions, I would get an honest and trustworthy answer.

Answer 7

im 39 years old and i still go to sleep on christmas eve by 9pm so Santa can come and deliver my pressies.
All u people who say he is not real are all deluded. how else eats the mince pie i leave out for him?
Next you'll be telling me that the Easter Bunny is made up too. I mean, who do you think makes all those eggs that dont taste like normal chocolate????
Plus also if you send a letter to Santa he always sends a reply.

Answer 8

I was so excited when I was six I waited for Santa Claus to come. We couldn't afford a tree back then, so we had paper bags at the foot of our beds so Santa could put the gifts in. Of course, being awake, I saw my parents stuffing the bag.

I don't think think it spoiled the magic... everything finally made sense. I never understood how that he got his fat *** down the chimney.

Answer 9

i believe i was about 7. i kind of wish i was never told there was a santa, and no it's not because i'm not traumatized haha basically because it leads some children on. Not me in particular, but it's lying to your children who are from the time they are born until about 7 learning that lying isn't right (i'm sure people learn that their whole life) but regardless, it teaches them that it's okay to "fib" a little here and there to make people "believe" and feel good about something. Seems kind of wrong to me.

Answer 10

I was probably 6-7 and no it made sense to me that Santa was no longer around.

Learning much later on that Jesus was probably born in February or March messed me up far more.

Learning even later who WAS born on December 25th was the shocker. For that matter learning what December 25th stands for was enlightening in a sense.