Caught moving the elf

[Mammaakir]

So it was about 9.45 and I thought my daughter was asleep but turns out she wasn't and saw me moving the bloody elf! (We live in a flat her bedroom opposite the kitchen)

She cried for about 45 minutes and now is refusing to go sleep. I told her that santa has set me a task to help the elves as they are little and need some help, although I don't think she's going to fall for it at all she told me she hates me and that I'm a liar that santa isn't real either and the elf is fake.

I know it's coming to an end as she is 10 and other children around her know its not real but selfishly I just want one more christmas.

Have I set my self up even worse or should I just come clean about everything 😭.

I love christmas I just know without that little bit of magic it's not the same.

If she had been a few years younger then no matter what excuse you’d given she probably would’ve believed it. But she’s 10, she probably already had doubts and you confirmed them. It’s time for the truth unfortunately.

You're daughter told you she hates you and called you a liar and what you just accept that? If I'd spoken to my parents like that no matter what the reason they would have gone mad! I just wouldn't have dared and my four would never talk to us like this, you don't say but I hope you've made her apologise. Fair enough totally she's upset and confused but this is not acceptable behaviour from a little one to their parent, sorry

My ten year old deffo believes … well her teacher said to me she said ‘is it ok if I don’t make a decision just yet on if I believe or not..’ it’s fun to believe - could you say the elf jumped on you?