To insist Father Christmas is real until I drop dead?

[johnnymarrr]

My mum has always insisted Father Christmas is real. I believed until I was around 11, despite most kids at school not believing I pretended I also didn't but secretly believed with all my heart, and my mum and dad would go all out for Christmas and it made it SO special.

She still insists he's real now (I'm grown up now with kids of my own and I have 4 older siblings, eldest is almost 40!!) and my mum still insists to us that he is real and buys us presents from Santa 😂

AIBU to do the same for my kids? Or is this really odd?!

No, he’s real in our house and the youngest is 20.

I’m 66
Are you now telling me that Santa is not real?

WHat? Santa not real? OMG

Who said he isn't real? I am 52. We've even seen him in a forest in Lapland.

I’m the same op and almost 30. We live Christmas in our house. Ds (aged 8) still believes, his class TA told him Santa wasn’t real 😡😡 was furious about that but thankfully he still believes.

*love

Your mum sounds sweet and of course yes rral even norad day so.

Who fills the stockings then? If you don't believe your rocking remains empty.

I mean I KNOW he's real but I've seen so many threads recently of people asking if they should tell their kids he's not if they ask!!

My Dd is 17 and Santa is most definitely real, as us the Easter Bunny, the Birthday Fairy and the Halloween Skeleton!
They all bring gifts, nothing from me at all obvs

I’m 50 and know he’s real. I nod my head along with all the disbelievers but secretly pity them.

Santa is real, he's in the hearts and minds of many many people, he's the magic of Christmas and I will never tell DD or DS that he's not real just as my parents have never told me.

I am 30 and in my family we have never and will never acknowledge any suggestion that he is not real.

YABU. I mean, you can do whatever you want with the Santa myth for your own family celebrations, but I find adults insisting he's real incredibly twee and sentimental.

In my family (all adults) we sometimes label a present 'from Santa' for fun, especially if it's a joke present, but nobody talks about Santa being real. I'd find it very odd if someone did.

My parents get presents for me and my family from Santa and I'm 45! I still do it with my children and they're all adults.

No harm can be done by something so sweet and kind.

I believe.

Here here good on her, why not! In this cruel harsh world, it is nice to have some magic of childhood to fall back on

Of course Santa is real.
Just ask my y11s. They get quite annoyed if anyone so much as jokes that he might not be.

Though I do think there's an awkward point with kids with the whole Santa thing.

From the New York Sun, 1897.

DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’
Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

VIRGINIA O’HANLON.
115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

I’ve never admitted he isn’t real!

I still put out milk and cookies which poor DH diligently deals with before I come down on Christmas Day

Having our first child next month. Excited to have an excuse for it all 😂

"Santa is real, he's in the hearts and minds of many many people, he's the magic of Christmas"

It's fine for you to consider Santa (or Father Christmas as my generation knew him) as the magic of Christmas. Just like some people consider it to be about Jesus etc.

But others get to decide, for them, what is the magic of Christmas.

I love the story of, A Christmas Carol, its a heartwarming tale, without needing to put Santa at the center of it.

He's real here too. I'm nearly 50 and my children are in their 20s.

My view is expressed in Miracle on 34th Street. FC is an expression of kindness, generosity, belief. I will always believe.

So lovely to see I'm not alone! Read a thread a while ago basically insinuating it was evil to not inform 11yr DD that there was no such thing as she would be a laughing stock at high school. I survived that phase unscathed and still a firm believer at 50.[santa]

I am and always will be a believer!

YADNBU and that's my biggest one YADNBU ever