Older believers and school

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Raindancer411 · 30/10/2022 09:40

Now a bit off of the usual sharing good deals and ideas but I am wondering what others have done or planning to do.

My son is 10 and is due to go secondary next September. So far he still seems to believe (or at least tells us and acts like he does). He also has a lot younger sister.

Did you leave them to believe or did you say something before they started secondary?

I know he will be upset (he is very sensitive) when he finds out and I wish he could go on believing for as long as he likes, but I am worried he will be taken the mick out of. They still seem so young when going into year 7...

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Raindancer411 · 31/10/2022 10:00

Kanaloa · 31/10/2022 04:20

Has he never seen any of the many many films and TV shows and books where they show that Santa isn’t real? It’s never come up in conversation whatsoever?

If you genuinely think your 10 year old believes in stories as if they’re real life then of course tell him, in just the same way you presumably tell him Darren Shan isn’t really a vampire, it’s just a story that he’s a vampire. I’d be really shocked to meet a 10 year old who really genuinely believes Santa is real though. My dd is this age and she’s really young for her age in lots of ways but if we read a book or something together she is still aware that the story isn’t real. Ditto with fairies/monsters etc, she knows they’re myths and stories.

He doesn't really watch tv or films, and he has never questioned what he has seen. Which is why I am finding it hard to gauge what he is thinking.

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