10 year old son and father christmas

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I’m fairly sure my 10 year old son knows that Father Christmas is me & his Dad but it’s never been mentioned. He will be 11 in Feb and has a 6 year old sister.
What do I do? I don’t really want to bring it up- he’s still keen to go & see Santa this year and I get the impression he wants to keep playing along and why not- who wants to grow up?!
Ainu to not say anything? How do you deal with it?

@colditz we ALL believe in this house so I won't be telling her any such thing.

Oh GOOD PerverseConverse, her protesting to her peers that her mum still believes isn't at ALL going to add to her feeling of frustration and alienation when even her nice friends are baffled about her insistence on a children's fantasy being real

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I knew just before I was 7. I was in big trouble when I shared my knowledge with my younger sister though.

Just go with it, let him have the magic of Christmas. My daughter has just turned 11, she believes and we have several santa trips planned this year!! I don't care if they are the oldest there!! (DS is 9)

My 8yo is humouring me this year I think. She still wants to go and see Santa so she can choose her own present from the elves workshop, but she gives me a look whenever I mention it. It seems a bit young to stop believing, but dd1 was only 7 when a friend's older sibling told her the truth and she stopped believing.

On a funny side note.

One year I decided to go all MN Christmas and did the snowy footprints.

Ds got up, came in my room and asked why there was talc in the hallway with welly prints.

I said "Santa must have left snowy footprints".

But no! It wasn't snowing outside and they were the wrong shape, direction and pattern - and Santa hadn't ever left footprints before.

Still believed he's just very black and white.

Oh and of course he pulls a sleigh. He's been on it it Lapland when he met Santa and he's seen him on Xmas eve (the satellite thingy!)

I can remember when I was around 8 or 9 and was told at school that Santa wasn't real but I never admitted to my parents that I didn't believe anymore as I had younger siblings and it wasn't until I was 11 or 12 that my parents admitted that it was them and that's it. Christmas is never the same ever again. I was glad of the years between 8 and 11 when I didn't tell my parents that I knew as because my parents hadn't actually told me it was true the magic was still there as I still had that little doubt at the back of my mind that maybe the kids at school are wrong. So don't say anything

He's probably 'believing' because it makes you happy, that's what our children told us years ago, they kept it on about 3 years!

PerverseConverse I’m all for keeping it going in primary but c’mon she will 100% get the piss ripped out of her if she still says she believes as a teenager. It would be awful for her.

Absolutley Cheer high school kids can ne brutal .

no one laughed at me at high school and no one is laughing at my year 7 daughter either.

How do you know?

I told mine the truth when they asked me which was at 7 or 8 years old. They still love xmas - presents, time with family and friends, all the fun stuff like ice skating, xmas markets etc. No feeling of "magic" being lost here!

DD is nearly 10 and has know there is no santa since she asked when she was 6. She still enjoys pretending and begs to be taken to any grotto around the place (even if they don't give out presents). Her not believing has made no difference at all to our Christmasses.