To think the magic of small children at Christmas is a load of old bollocks

[Pavementworrier]

Adult Christmas is where it's at

Congratulations ❤️

*If you tell your kids Santa is literally real, and your kids honestly believe it, then finding out your parents have constructed and maintained a lie, can be devastating for some kids.
Why risk it for ‘magic’ that exists anyway without the lie?
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True. Someone i know has been in therapy for years since she found out that Father Christmas wasn't real, and that her parents contructed and maintained a lie. In fact, she gets a full on panic attack whenever she sees a santa costume.

Are you serious? I can’t tell.

If that is true, the child’s issues didn’t start and end at Santa not being real. They were caused by many other reasons.

its kind of like when a parent complains their child was hungry during the night and they had to feed them at 3am… in reality, they didn’t have any proper meals all day and were just underfed going to bed.

I wasn't being serious 😆. But this is what the poster was afraid of right? The poster is afraid that her children will be traumatised when they find out FC isnt real and that they would need years of therapy to come to terms with it.

Oh thank the lord! I was like good grief, that’s just fucking tragic if true 🫶

I love it but we keep Christmas relatively low key in our house.
My view is very much that if I’m going to get stress me out it’s usually not worth it. I think people get the idea that christmas magic = everything having to be full on and ‘instagram worthy’ which is total nonsense. Small children just think it’s magic to have mum and dad’s full attention for the day and some colourful lights up and chocolate for breakfast

I loved the magic when they were tiny but these last few years have been incredible now they are young adults. I like to think that the work we put in when they were tiny made them three thoughtful adults they are today, but it's probably just as much chance!

When my youngest where kids many years ago it was lovely now I've got young kids again 20 years later and its not the same. I know I am older but there is just so much more stuff there is pressure on you to do, buy and be. I think young children are truly overwhelmed by it all and enjoy it less too. The "magic" is in the gaps I always think the empty space around Christmas and now we try to fill everything up to make memories and so on and it has the opposite effect. I do try to keep things more "old skool" but then the kids moan they are missing out on stuff their friends are doing.

I loved it when they were little and my children who are now older confirmed that I made it very magical for them.

I just hope that if I have an GC one day that I can share in that magic once again. I’d love to see the day I can arm myself with glitter and Weetabix and make ‘reindeer food’ again.

Small children can be hard no matter the day. We have a 3 year old and DH and I had our hands full. My childfree siblings probably breathed a sigh of relief when we left lol. On our departure they all would have played card games and watched movies with my parents. That would have been lovely for them once the circus left😂