When do most children stop believing in ...

[Madsometimes]

I know it's a silly question

My seven year old dd still believes which I think is very sweet, but I know it will not last for much longer. She also goes in for the tooth fairy in a big way.

How much longer will the magic last now that she is in the juniors? Once dd1 stops believing, then I know dd2 (4) will follow shortly after. I'm a second child and was about five when my sister told me!

When someone puts a thread title like this on Mumsnet.......

Well done, genius...

Doh!

DD1 was 7 DD2 10 and DD3 11.

She is even!If you want her to believe make her believe!My dd is 7 and there is no way she'd believe if someone told her he wasn't real.
Mind you that's probably because he is real and anyone who tells you otherwise was wrong.

*seven

I'd be really worried if my kids were on Mumsnet

Especially if they knew my nickname

Why put this in the totle.

Some of us have children who still believe and can read.

and my pop into my study and read over my shoulder as I read the thread titles.

Can this not be changed?????

Do they never come and talk to you or sit on your lap when you're on here??
DS is on my lap right now, but he cant read.

Just about to post the same as MB.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/2652/441357?stamp=071216182137

Mine still believe at 10.5 and 8 (well they have never said otherwise so I think they must), they still do lists to Santa.

Yes, my children are always coming in and out of our computer room and looking at what I am doing and both can read.

Lord God but there are some dim people on MN at this time of the year.

my dd1 is 6 and i would be gutted if this was the last year she believed, she still seems so young and has only really understood what christmas means for the past couple of years, i hope she still believes for years to come.

Really, some kids can read fast.

they don't have to log on and use your username.

It is just so daft to put this in a bloody thread title!

One day you might be in the same situation fgs.

my son was 6. Depends on the personality I think. He's the sort of child who wants to know why Bush wouldn't sign the Kyoto Protocol.

Have reported thread, since numpties won't stop bumping it with their own tales.

My DS is 6.5 with a reading age of 9. He speed reads.

He can't add and subtract but he can read.

If you don't want them to read the thread, then go to another thread; bit like turning the telly over. DOH

It's in the list of active convos.
Doh right back atcha!

Well go and do something else then. DOH right back at you with Sleigh bells on

bronteE, surely if your chldren ever get it into their head that santa isn't real you want it to be at a reasonable age???
Dd is seven, she read the thread title, it was actually her idea for me to write the other thread!

If they've worked it out, surely it would be wrong to lie about it. He's happy with his understanding; there was no deflated face, tears or drama; just his own calculation. If they are ready to face a world with a little less fantasy, then good for them.