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When did your children stop believing in Father Christmas?

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biks · 03/07/2023 08:08

I read a thread the other day where a poster stated that 6 years old is 'around the age' where children will stop believing and it has honestly played on my mind since purely as I'd love a few more years of believing with my DS(6)

What's the general consensus? I was personally a late bloomer of 'finding out' at nearly 12 but I'm glad that I was that age.

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brassbells · 04/07/2023 22:09

Mine were too old before this doll appeared hence why I don't really know much about it

Tetchypants · 04/07/2023 22:11

ItWillBeDone · 04/07/2023 22:07

Stop believing?! I'm in my 40s, I still believe. I love a bit of magic 😍

Same. My mum still gives me a stocking! 😂

LittleMonks11 · 04/07/2023 22:16

Wait. What do you mean there's no Father Christmas?

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Blondeshavemorefun · 04/07/2023 22:18

I hope to have another 2/3 Christmas

Dd is 6

So Understands about the magic more now

Think her 4th and 5th Xmas were exciting as believed and knew about fc
So the excitement of Xmas eve bed and stocking

Friends son was 11 and believed

I've always said you need to tell by the time they go to secondary school or will get the piss taken out of

FlounderingFruitcake · 04/07/2023 22:23

brassbells · 04/07/2023 22:08

With the idea of that toy doll thing that I can't remember what it is called but it watches the children all December and keeps doing things around the house at nighttime

What do children think or believe it?

Does it make any difference if they believe in TF or FC or not?

So do they believe this doll watches them for longer than they believe in other things?

Elf on the shelf. Basically Santa’s spy that watches to check you’re being good (not creepy at all…) but also a bit of fun to move into silly positions every day. DD had a class one at school but never thought it was real. No idea what the rest of her classmates thought.

RuthW · 04/07/2023 22:25

Dd started to question it when she was three. She had forgotten about the next year though and I think we got to 6. I'd say 6 was average.

brassbells · 04/07/2023 22:43

Thank you for explaining about ELF ON THE SHELF

Superstar22 · 04/07/2023 22:47

11& 10 and still firmly believe and I won’t be telling them before high school

TheaBrandt · 04/07/2023 22:49

Do they though?! They are having you on surely no NT 11 year old would genuinely believe! Think many play along to humour mum and dad.

yellowdinoplate · 04/07/2023 22:51

I'm 40 and I still believe!

Mindovermatter247 · 04/07/2023 23:19

I found out when I was 11 and saw my m7m come in the room with my stocking…DS15 knows but he humours his sister, she’s 10, still believes … I think… the rule is if she asks me outright, then I’ll tell her, but I want the magic to last as long as possible… she’s the youngest… although I am looking forward to wen she’s no longer super excited and I can finally get a lie in on Christmas Day 😅
santa my get the credit now, but the way I see it… and hope dc see it is, all the trouble I went through to make it magical and special for them… because that’s what I thought when I found out, it made me appreciate my parents a whole lot more.

WillaHermione · 04/07/2023 23:30

I was 9 and DH was 6 when we worked it out. DH worked it out because that was when his (step) dad (birth father died when he was 7 months) moved in and FC brought more presents. Whenever he asked his DM before then about how FC did it his DM just said magic so he was already sceptical and his dad moving in confirmed it.

My eldest niece is 7 and she still believes at the moment.

Frances0911 · 04/07/2023 23:36

I was six. I forced my mum to tell me as I found where she hid all the presents, so on Christmas day I just knew that Father Christmas hadn't delivered them. Plus I was pretty smart and figured out sleighs, an old man and reindeers literally couldn't fly through the sky!

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