Old old were you when you stopped believing in Santa?

Question

My daughters are 4 and 7. I want them to have that excitement of believing that santa comes down the chimney with loads of presents for a few more years. However, my bf has two kids that are 11 and 12, and i know they know the truth but would never spill the beans. How old are kids when they figure this out?

Answer 1

I was four.

It didn't spoil Christmas for me, since I was still looking forward to the presents. I thanked my parents rather than an imaginary guy that year.

Answer 2

6 or 7

Answer 3

7

Answer 4

Its really up to the parents and how they raise there kids to believe in fantasy and dreams. My parents were not that kind they kept a tight reality check on things make believe was not allowed. My kids i allow to dream and make believe but my baby girl is 7 years old and has known for maybe 1year or 2 that theres not a Santa, Easter Bunny . But just a week ago she found out there was no tooth fairy she lost her first teeth and I did not have the money to place under her pillow and I told her that so she would not think she was not liked or was being a bad girl.

Answer 5

I said to my mum at 6 years old - 'santa isn't real, is he?'

My friend has 3 kids, at 10, 5 and 1 and the oldest one figured it out for himself, but still plays along for the middle one, and now the baby.

I think he was about 7 when he got it.

Most kids I'd say between 6 and 10 as an average??

Answer 6

I don't remember how old I was, but I found out when my mother told me my Super Nintendo was from Santa and she forgot to throw away the receipt. All the other toys that were from her were on the receipt as well so I put two and two together. I felt betrayed and wondered why she had lied to me all those years. I don't think it's good to lie to your kids, no matter if it's about Santa or not. A lie is a lie and that's pretty much all it boils down to. I would never lie to my kids about anything. It's misleading and confusing. But if that's what you wanna do, then that is your business.

Answer 7

Most kids figure it out around 6-8. But here's an approach my wife used for her kids - when they reached the age of question, she explained that Santa is real in all of us, and that once you figured it out, you were charged with helping to be santa - then she started taking them out on Christmas Eve and leaving an anonymous gift at the doorstep of a friend or acquaintence, or someone in need.

edit - how can that get a thumbs down??

Answer 8

One thing you want to do to extend the time, is have a friend write the labels from santa. And use a different style labels.

For a lot of kids the strongest evidence that santa is not real is that mom and santa have the same handwriting.

Answer 9

Just say to the older kids if you want pressies for Christmas then don't spill the beans to the younger children. It will work nothing like a little bit of blackmail these days.

I still like to get presents from Father Christmas at 60 years of age.

Answer 10

i finished believing in Santa in the past i replaced into 5, yet that replaced into because of the fact i replaced into advised the fact by employing my older siblings. i think in God as a Christian now, yet my siblings do no longer, so there can not be any undemanding causation. by the type, Santa did exist. the parable we've is various thoughts from distinctive traditions run mutually, so there are various historic figures the parable must be based upon. between the terrific applicants must be Saint Nicholas whose call replaced into corrupted to Santa Claus. for sure he's no longer alive & handing over provides in a reindeer-powered sleigh presently.

Answer 11

The question is, did I ever believe in Santa......my parents made sure we knew that the gifts under the tree came from THEM!! So I didn't grow up hoping Santa would bring me gifts each Christmas. I grew up hoping my mother and father would buy me what I really wanted.