to have admitted to my son father xmas isn't real?

[LucieMay]

He's six going on 16. He caught me off guard the other day and proceeded to debunk every argument in favour of father Christmas so I just admitted it was a big lie from adults. He was very proud of himself and said he could not believe adults spend so much time pretending to children that he's real. Should I have perpetuated the myth to retain the magic of xmas?

As a child I insisted on having my stocking outside my room as I wasn't going to have some strange man in my bedroom! DD is 10 months so need to decide wether we're going to do Santa.

On a slightly different note since I have always got presents from my dad addressed from "your dead guinea pigs" and "with love from poppy from beyond the grave".

I am shocked that some parents would deprive their child of those magical years of believing in Santa, simply to make sure they get the 'credit' for buying the presents.

Oh yes stockings left outside bedroom doors here too due to DD freaking years ago at the thought of someone wandering around her room at night.

My 7 year old knows that Father Christmas isn't real, he asked me and I didn't want to lie to him. His sisters still believe though and I have warned him not to tell the other children in his class. If he tells anyone else, he won't get a stocking from "Father Christmas"

I am trying to be careful about that after I outed the Easter Bunny in the year 1 playground last year.

The kids were nagging me about the Easter Eggs that they wanted to get from the Easter Bunny, and I had had a long day, so I just said "stop going on about it, you know there is no such thing as the Easter Bunny." I realised that I had said it too loudly when I hear a little voice behind asking his Mum if the Easter Bunny was real or not. I left the playground very quickly after that.

My mother never liked Christmas. So there was no Father Christmas for us. And it was always abit miserable. Not just having no Santa but that bit of magic/ big fib could have brought us some fun.

My kids ( eldest is 7) get stockings and a pressie from Father Christmas and I hope when the eldest one twigs the truth he just pretends for fun. But seeing as he says he heard footsteps and hooves stamping on our roof a few years ago on Christmas Eve - hoping for a few Christmas's out of it even though other kids are saying its rubbish.

Well done those imaginative children with miserable parents who invent him anyway!

I think there are lots of kind DCs who have worked out the truth but keep it up for their parents!

YABU.

Father Christmas is real.

So ner!

Get him to stuff his own stocking this year? He could also make fake reindeer prints in the snow and drink the sherry left out.

I know a family where the oldest was a food 10 years older than the 3 little ones. He used to take great pleasure maintaining the Santa story

One year he filled his stocking with coal and his siblings were so upset they shared their stockings with him!

I still haven't told ds1 17 that he's not real