to think that a child who believes in Santa beyond 6/7ish is either...

[santaslayer]

a bit naive or a bit dim?

I'm neither a troll nor 2bubs4me so no hunting.

I dont remember ever believing in Santa, and I remember quite a lot from my pre-school years. I knew the size of the Earth, the number of people and the impossibility of the logistics of 'Santa'. I also knew better than to beleive everything my parents said .

My DS is basically the same. I understand that 3yo's believe - it's cute, but I think it's a bit creepy when 8+yo's still do.

But I would never actually criticise a parent for having such deluded sheltered DCs.

Oh get you!

Never criticise a parent, though just call their kids naive or dim?

Hmm

Shame on you.

Santa is magic- he doesn't have to fit in with the physical laws of the universe, that's the whole point.

Bloody hell, wrong emocion.

I meant .

Have a medal

I can't believe DS still believes. He is 9 - it's not possible right? He isn't dim. He is is a bit naive. But he also I think believes, or really wants to believe, in magic. Magic explains - or at least discounts - the logistics of it. That's what happens when you raise a child to believe in God

I think I would prefer my child to be naive and sheltered and being a child than drssing up like Cheryl Cole and her face plastered with make up at the age of 7.

so

SO what?

Actually, I don't think many kids believe at that age. And I meet loads of kids. Would never TELL them it's not true - but in my experience they know it's not anyway!

F* O** from a six and a half dc still believing in santa !

YABU and rude.

My son believes and he is 9. So shoot me .

Have my first ! Absolute nonsense!

I believe wholeheartedly in Santa and I am 27. Santa came to our house every year until I was 18 years old and moved out.

I'm not in the least bit dim or naive.

Depends whether the parents' are innovative and inventive enough to keep the magic alive - putting it politely.

DS1 nearly stopped believing 2yrs ago - then DS3's god mother bought him a fabulous book about how Santa really works, putting all those practically impossibilities into a much more realistic scientific way - it kept him going for another year

He's 10 now and no longer believes.

DS2 definitely still believes - and in the tooth fairy too. He's 7. I'd better go and tell his teacher he's actually really dim and to move him out of the top set in maths

YANBU OP.
My 5 year old still believes in him, apparently. I am longing for the day when I will overhear her saying to ds1 'Whatever you do, don't let Mum and Dad know you don't believe in Father Christmas or they might stop filling our stockings to convince us he's real.'

my kids were as thick as shit

BTW, I never believed in Santa - a regularly repeated family tale that I decided that he was someone dressed up at just turned 3.

Though I don't think it gave me any marks on the 'neither-dim-nor-naive'-o-meter.