Messed up Santa chat with DD, feel awful

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DD is almost 9 and hit me with a barrage of Santa questions this morning resulting in the Santa doesn’t bring the presents chat. But she told me she wishes I had lied about it instead and I can see she’s sad so I’ve obviously misjudged it. I thought she had worked it all out. I feel terrible now and I can’t undo it 😟

At least it was after Christmas. She wouldn’t of asked if she didn’t know even if she did want confirmation it was real. She would of been sure by next Christmas

She wants the story to be true, although she knows (already knew)...

Icanflyhigh's post from another thread is lovely: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3775629-To-be-furious-at-relative-telling-my-child-about-Santa-I?pg=2

OP you haven’t done the wrong thing at all, you didn’t know what her reaction would be and these questions are hard. But if you feel it needs salvaging, there is a good book on this that you could buy and read to her that I think would help. It’s called Letters to Santa and it’s lovely.

She’s been sad all day poor love but I’ve back peddled a tiny bit by going with the idea that Santa brings one small thing not everything as that’s what my sister in law does and we were there today and that was the story there. She seems happier to go along with that. Complicated stuff this, and I thought I just needed to worry about the sex talk.