Aibu to think this Lidl book spoils Santa

I agree with you but you’ll get loads of cool posters who “don’t lie to my child” or think a 7 year old should “get a grip” before he gets bullied.

FWIW, I believe in Santa and if my kids dared ask otherwise they’d get short shrift 😅

We never did the Santa thing ourselves; but that's a very odd decision to make: including a strong assertion that Santa doesn't exist in a book that is very clearly aimed at the age where most kids would still believe in Santa.

How stupid of them - they'll get loads of complaints.

DD is 6 and I’m going to maintain Santa is real throughout her entire life. She’ll obviously reach her own conclusion but I’m never dropping the pretence.

I saw a tictok video yesterday detailing "unexplained rules in your household that you now understand", one mentioned that they were not allowed to watch a particular family film until the you gest member of the household was a teen; and it was because it mentioned Santa not being real and even though some of the kids in the family were older, the younger kids were being protected by the parents.

I suppose that’s why they’ve marked it as 8+.

Father Christmas fills the stockings, relatives buy the main presents. Otherwise children will wonder why the kids next door get more from FC when they haven’t been as good!

@ParabendumI still believe & I still get a stocking!

That's awful 😞

Literally all the adults I know speak about Santa as being real even between themselves, just in case someone's listening (or probably, just out of habit/long term method acting 🤣)

I dont think you csn dictate how different people do santa!

Is the bit in the top left "Give someone in this room a massage". Who wrote this book? An AI nonce?

Ask about "father christmas" to a group of 4 or 5 year olds in Scotland and they will have no clue who you are on about. Santa.

Awwwh, my 8 year old still believes (or at least humours ys)

Same!! Santa will always come to our house!

Lmao,well spotted!! What a bizarre dare!

We're a close,huggy type family but my kids would not be massging anyone lol,weird

When I asked my Mum if he was real she said “ well I’ve always thought if you stop believing he might not come so I’ve never risked it!” He came to my parents house until my Mum died when I was 44. It created so many happy memories and laughter.
My Dad still hangs a sign up at Christmas that says “this house believes “ 🥰

Im 53 and it was always Father xmas when i was little
But Santa seems more common now .

I’d be annoyed enough at the mess if my DC tried to squirt ketchup on a spoon to eat it!

But no, that’s not ok. Father Christmas comment nor massage.

I'm 54 and in Scotland and many other places it was ALWAYS Santa.

Every year there is a post from English posters bemoaning the "Americanisation" of Father Christmas, they won't accept that term was never used in large parts of the UK.

I’m not, but it doesn’t make sense to me to say to children that Santa brings all the presents, especially as he’s supposed to bring them to children who have been good. How do you explain to a child that Johnny next door gets a huge pile of presents, bike etc ?
whereas he only has a few, and has been good? Would seem very unfair to the child!
Surely it’s better to say Santa fills the Christmas stocking, and the other presents are from the family, who can explain why the child has fewer presents than Johnny.

My mum does this, I’m 27 and married with my own children. She enforces the 9:30 bed rule on Christmas Eve for me and my husband, because it’s obviously Santa has to arrange the Christmas presents aesthetically. It’s crazy that Santa wraps them in the exact colour scheme of the house, that man’s got a keen eye for colour! Honestly it’s kind of silly but it’s really fun and I know how much she absolutely loves doing it. It still feels magical.

I think the age when they start to realise these financial disparities will roughly align with the age they would stop believing in Santa anyway.

For birthdays, we don't always do presents in the morning but one year we had to, so I laid the gifts out for my daughter to wake up to. She said "this is just like when Santa comes!" 😬 I think I just mumbled "oh is it?" while thinking damn, can't do that again! 🤣

It was Mrs Claus when I was little 🤣

Ah, that's a shame. I think YANBU, OP. If young kids believe, it's part of the magic for them and it shouldn't be ripped away before they're ready.

Do you just go up to your room, or have you got to have lights out? You're lucky your DH goes along with it. I like that Christmas has changed through the years, as my children and grandchildren (youngest 9) have grown. I wouldn't be ready to end my Christmas Eve at 9.30.

@Allseeingallknowing not everyone does stockings. For a 7+ child who thinks a lot, none of it makes sense. Younger children don't necessarily question things.
Admittedly I'm not from a UK background and a big thing wasn't made of Santa. I did Christmas Eve gift bags. Now we don't do adult presents. But because we work across Health/SS etc we often did our Christmas meet up on another day.
Just scribble over that question if the children still believe. If Christmas isn't about presents, Santa features the way the Easter bunny does, as a fairytale figure.