Should you lie to your child? A discussion.

[ProgressiveParenting55]

Do any parents here tell their child that Father Christmas/Santa is real? I couldn't bear to lie to my child's face for another year so I came clean about the jolly fake figurehead. My child understood completely and even thanked me more for the presents they'd reviewed the previous year as they now realised it was us that paid for them and not a made up man (my child's words).

It's a bloody nightmare! I don't like lying to my children so when my DD (9) saw my secret stash of stocking paper and asked 'Mum - are you Santa?' I shame-facedly admitted. She was then really distraught (hardly ever 'sob' cries) and said it was always her who found out and not her brother (10) - previously she had blown open the truth about the Tooth Fairy. I then got the chance to back out and reinstate the myth (basically from dogged determination on the part of my DD to ignore every piece of evidence available), so I totally did. God knows how it's going to play out in the end; I'm hoping that once she's 12 or whatever, she won't give a shit anymore. I was never this bothered!