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Am I being unreasonable to be furious with my sons' guitar teacher who told them that Santa is not real?

don't think its right to question children's belief at 10 and 8, know plenty of children who've still believed at 10 and had to be let down gently by the parents to be prepared at secondary school - but it is the parent's choice! children do have a wonderful abilty to believe and not believe at the same time and if you can't have a naivity at 10, then you'll never have it again!

YANBU

It is not her business to tell them, neither is it anyone elses for that matter.

Do people really keep up the pretense for 10 years ?
Am amazed my DD had it worked at 8 and thought all the other kids in her year who still believed were a bit dim but she kept that to herself.

I would be fuming.

We are talkigng about human beings. They chat to each other and form relationships.

The wave of prudish mock outrage from some of you is unreal.

I thought of this thread earlier on. I was running Glee Club at lunchtime and we didn't have a great turnout, so I was chatting to some Yr 8 girls. One of them started saying something, and then paused and said "you do all know the THING about Father Christmas, don't you?" Cue much umming and ahhing and subtle looking around by the other Yr 8 girls, checking that no one was going to shocked by the inevitable. Once she was sure that she wasn't going to let anything out of the bag, the first girl told the others that she has only just been told that FC isn't real. And they're 12 going on 13.

I would be unsure about saying this in front of an eight year old, but I would have thought this would be the very upper limit. A ten year old, I would have assumed would have figured this out.

Surely at that age they know, really.