I had my suspicions early on when Santa's beard was held on by sellotape and his breath smelled of whisky at a Christmas treat run by the local social club.
I had my suspicions early on when Santa's beard was held on by sellotape and his breath smelled of whisky at a Christmas treat run by the local social club.
You would drink too if you had to deliver toys all around the world in one night.
I don't remember being devastated, but I do remember my older brother telling me it was Dad and not Santa.
My daughter still believes, and possibly may always as she has learning difficulties, I'm quite happy to go along with it as long as she takes pleasure from Santa's existence. She is well aware, however, that people also dress up as Santa (as he's way too busy to do it all ), and finds that great fun too. Last year at her Xmas Fayre she went into Santa's grotto, sat down next to him all excited, heard him say 'Hello Laura' and said back, 'Hello Adrian' (her music teacher )
My mum and dad always said Santa gave us a stocking and one main pressie, but he collected all the gifts from family to give to us. Plus, you never see the real Santa, the endless ones at school, shopping malls, etc are just santas helpers...if you see the real one you get a sack full of coal! Hence then not trying to stay awake to hear him coming! Well thought out lie by my parents!
No! I was relieved - discovering my lack of presents was just another aspect of my mother was much better than thinking Santa didn't come because I'd been bad.
Much as I love the idea of Father Christmas and keeping kids under the spell for as long as possible, I can't help but still think of the kids out there who don't get presents and how their young minds interpret that Sorry - bit melancholy I know!
I don't think I ever believed in Father Christmas (no Americans in my house!), but I pretended I did, as it was a nice game and felt like a kind of "in joke" with my mum. I was far too logical as a 5 year old, seeing relatives names on labels kind of gave it away, we also didn't have a chimney, plus the fact we were quite poor and only got one present each. At 8, my half-sister was born, so I got to keep on pretending for her sake. Even when she was a teenager we still did the 'mince pie and brandy, and a carrot for Rudolph' charade. No-one still believed, but it was the spirit of the thing...which is what was important, to me
I dont believe you,i think you are deluding yourself,unless you grew up in china...then big deal.
A teacher at our primary school got suspended for telling a class of eight and nine year olds that it was about time they grew up and stopped believing in stuff like that. This is how our class found out although some did kind of figure it out already it wasn't her place to say such a thing. It was a horrible school full of horrible teachers.
I can't remember how I found out he wasn't real so it can't have been traumatic!
I had to have a chat with my son back in September as he was starting senior school and was still a believer which is unusual at 11 but he's the sort to believe anything you tell him and would still have believed in father christmas when he was 20 probably, I would have liked to have got another magical christmas with him but I was worried about all the little arses at school that would think it cool to pick on him because of it so I had a chat and told him the presents were from me and his dad. He was cool with it, no trauma and was happy that he'd still be getting an ipod touch.
Yeah I know - to hear it on a discussion board is so cruel the OP should have put a spoiler on his post - cant stop crying now
Next someone is going to tell me the tooth fairy does not exist
and the easter bunny and the sandman - am crushed beyond belief
I found out that Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy didn't exist on the same Christmas Eve, both because I laid traps which my parents got caught by.
It seems that people who worked it out for themselves are fine with it, and people whoo had it brutally revealed to them suffered a bit more?
I found out that Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy didn't exist on the same Christmas Eve, both because I laid traps which my parents got caught by.
It seems that people who worked it out for themselves are fine with it, and people whoo had it brutally revealed to them suffered a bit more?
I'm sorry? The tooth fairy isn't real? Tell me you're lying!
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You would drink too if you had to deliver toys all around the world in one night.
My daughter still believes, and possibly may always as she has learning difficulties, I'm quite happy to go along with it as long as she takes pleasure from Santa's existence. She is well aware, however, that people also dress up as Santa (as he's way too busy to do it all
No Santa:-(
Oooh look, a train set :-)
Agree'd.
Much as I love the idea of Father Christmas and keeping kids under the spell for as long as possible, I can't help but still think of the kids out there who don't get presents and how their young minds interpret that
I dont believe you,i think you are deluding yourself,unless you grew up in china...then big deal.
I had to have a chat with my son back in September as he was starting senior school and was still a believer which is unusual at 11 but he's the sort to believe anything you tell him and would still have believed in father christmas when he was 20 probably, I would have liked to have got another magical christmas with him but I was worried about all the little arses at school that would think it cool to pick on him because of it so I had a chat and told him the presents were from me and his dad. He was cool with it, no trauma and was happy that he'd still be getting an ipod touch.
I found out that Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy didn't exist on the same Christmas Eve, both because I laid traps which my parents got caught by.
It seems that people who worked it out for themselves are fine with it, and people whoo had it brutally revealed to them suffered a bit more?
I'm sorry? The tooth fairy isn't real? Tell me you're lying!