at what age should i break the new to my sis that santa doesnt exist?

Question

she's 4yrs old

Answer 1

I personally don't think you should break the news to her. She'll go to school and find out on her own. Let her have her hopes and imagination while she can. Thats the best part about being a kid.

Answer 2

I am 37 years old , and I still believe!! There are many ways that Santa exist, the joy, the love ,family, and the kindness of the holiday. It could be as simple as someone holding a door open for you , or helping you carry something to a complete stranger doing something unexpectedly out of the ordinary. So NO you should not tell her !! When the day comes that she says to you that she no longer believes, I hope you point out all the wounderfull things about the hoilday

Answer 3

Never. Kids are smart; they'll figure it out on their own. I informed MY parents when I knew Santa wasn't real, not the other way around. Telling a child that Santa isn't real is a horrible thing to do if they still believe, and the other brats at school will be all too happy to do it for you. Don't be the bad guy; let nature run its course.

Answer 4

Don't 'break the news' to her. School and peers will take care of that soon enough. Too soon, in my opinion. Let her enjoy the magic of Christmas as long as she can. And BTW-4 yrs old is way too young. Pray thatshe gets at least to 8.

Answer 5

Certainly not this year. If you go by the editorial- Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus- then there is. Read on.

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

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

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical 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 external 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 you 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 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, 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 lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!

From The People's Almanac, pp. 1358-9.

Francis P. Church's editorial, "Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" was an immediate sensation, and became one of the most famous editorials ever written. It first appeared in the The New York Sun in 1897, almost a hundred years ago, and was reprinted annually until 1949 when the paper went out of business.

Thirty-six years after her letter was printed, Virginia O'Hanlon recalled the events that prompted her letter:

"Quite naturally I believed in Santa Claus, for he had never disappointed me. But when less fortunate little boys and girls said there wasn't any Santa Claus, I was filled with doubts. I asked my father, and he was a little evasive on the subject.

"It was a habit in our family that whenever any doubts came up as to how to pronounce a word or some question of historical fact was in doubt, we wrote to the Question and Answer column in The Sun. Father would always say, 'If you see it in the The Sun, it's so,' and that settled the matter.

" 'Well, I'm just going to write The Sun and find out the real truth,' I said to father.

"He said, 'Go ahead, Virginia. I'm sure The Sun will give you the right answer, as it always does.' "

And so Virginia sat down and wrote her parents' favorite newspaper.

Her letter found its way into the hands of a veteran editor, Francis P. Church. Son of a Baptist minister, Church had covered the Civil War for The New York Times and had worked on the The New York Sun for 20 years, more recently as an anonymous editorial writer. Church, a sardonic man, had for his personal motto, "Endeavour to clear your mind of cant." When controversial subjects had to be tackled on the editorial page, especially those dealing with theology, the assignments were usually given to Church.

Now, he had in his hands a little girl's letter on a most controversial matter, and he was burdened with the responsibility of answering it.

"Is there a Santa Claus?" the childish scrawl in the letter asked. At once, Church knew that there was no avoiding the question. He must answer, and he must answer truthfully. And so he turned to his desk, and he began his reply which was to become one of the most memorable editorials in newspaper history.

Church married shortly after the editorial appeared. He died in April, 1906, leaving no children.

Virginia O'Hanlon went on to graduate from Hunter College with a Bachelor of Arts degree at age 21. The following year she received her Master's from Columbia, and in 1912 she began teaching in the New York City school system, later becoming a principal. After 47 years, she retired as an educator. Throughout her life she received a steady stream of mail about her Santa Claus letter, and to each reply she attached an attractive printed copy of the Church editorial. Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas died on May 13, 1971, at the age of 81, in a nursing home in Valatie, N.Y.

Answer 6

Why should you be the one breaking it to her?
and why should anyone tell her anyway,i'm pretty sure she'll find out on her own, and breaking her heart early wouldn't be a good thing to do as i'm pretty sure she'd be upset, telling kids that the things they believe in aren't true is cruel

Answer 7

i became into 9. My mom went to take my tooth out from below my pillow and that i wakened and he or she instructed me the Toothfairy did not exist and that i became into like, "...If the Tothfairy does not exist, neither does Santa!"

Answer 8

just tell her all the crazy story's...about the flying reindeer and Santa going down chimneys and elves making toys.(that cost hundreds of dollars) she'll get the point when its time...

when she gets it make sure you tell her that there was a St. Nick that did great things for people and that's why we remember him!

Answer 9

I would enjoy it as long as possible. She will figure it out around 7-9 easy.

Answer 10

Its not your place to do that. Just let her be young and enjoy life while she can. You don't need to be the one to let her in on the secret that the world isn't what its cracked up to be