How old were you when you stopped believing in Santa?

black-saturn

You mean there isn't one?

Quackers

STOP!

I do not need to hear your lies. Of course there is a Santa - how else do you get fab presents? Those elves spend almost a whole year making presents and you want to start spreading malicious lies and horrible rumours? Disgusting!

If you carry on like that then Santa will not be filling your stocking this year. Remember the song - he'll be checking that list twice to find out if you have been naughty or nice.

I think he'll be in his 'resting' stage now. The elves will be frantically wrapping and he'll be resting 'cos his 'big day' is coming up and he needs to make sure he has plenty of engy to get round to all of us GOOD people.

Oh, and dont forget - no wine or whisky for him on xmas eve - he wont be able to drive his sleigh straight and might not find his way to my house. Lemonade should be fine. Rudloph & his buddies like a carrot or 5 too

I like Santa so please stop dissing him

reehsetin

i never did i was a sad kid and never really believed that someone could go all round the world in one night!! though i did one sit and think about how timezones could have made it possible

Quackers

reehsetin wrote:

i never did i was a sad kid and never really believed that someone could go all round the world in one night!! though i did one sit and think about how timezones could have made it possible

One word for you :

Magic

jillie1974

i can just remeber, being bout 5 or 6 and waking up slightly as something was put in my room but being too scared to open my eyes, my mum and dad told me that it must have been santa claus and if i had opened my eyes and seen him he would never visit me again. so the next year i went to bed as usual and was terrified that i wouldnt fall asleep, would see santa and he would never visit again.. luckily i fell asleep!
cant wait for this christams eve!! my stocking is waiting!

glendam

I was 10 in the early 60`s and thought there probably wasnt but didnt say anything just in case. The next morning got up and Santa had written Merry Christmas in red ink on a white table cloth I knew he was real then because my Mum woulsd have killed my Dad for doing that. (lol poor dad)

Glenda who still believes

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

i have had to say thanks to all you who made me giggle - we never celebrated xmas at all when i was a kiddie so no beliefs of santa at all back then - but i love the fact that my nephew do - we join in with their little Santa surprises - i will eb doing the same for my little monster as she grows up!
I love christmas so much now - its the best time of the year, even better than my birthday - because for that one day (or month in my house) it is all excitement and smiles for all of us and not just me!

I have a weird belief in faries though - dunno why!

susieb1967

Two words......Tina Chapman!! If you're out there it was you who told me there was NO father christmas :eek: I rememeber it very well, can see where I was sat and everything!!! Obviously shook me to the core!

I think most kids get to ten, I would hate it if my kids found out before then, it would take away some of the magic of childhood. My mum always said that you should never worry if your kids will be disappointed what santa brings because they very rarely are. This has been true so far for me my DD's have always been happy on christmas day and santa has never bought them everything on their lists as this would be impossible!!!!! So everyone who is worried, CHILL OUT!!

I never go down the route of telling the kids that we buy it and santa delivers it, I just stick to santa brings good kids pressies and takes one out of his sack each time they are naughty.............great bribing tool from October onwards:rotfl: Your children find out soon enough that it was actually their parents buying all the stuff for all those years and painstakingly hiding them in 20 different places!!! I for one will be eternally grateful for my mum and dad creating all those fab memories of christmas and will carry on the tradition of the magic of santa claus for as long as i can.

As for older kids telling their younger siblings my mum (again!) used to say that when the older ones found out if you let them realise they are in on the big secret they are more likely to keep it from their younger sibs, cos they feel all grown up! This has certainly worked in my family!
I cant wait for christmas!!

*Louise*

My eldsest is 7 and still believes in him - I'm hoping to get another year or two out of him (depends on when some nasty little child at school announces to the class that Santa isn't real)

BUT - when he stops believing...his little brother is only 1..so I still have the magic with him.:D

I think I was 9 when I found out (yep...I had one of those nasty little kids at my school) and I was gutted...I think it marks the point between being a child and having to grow up.


However..I STILL insist my mum hangs up my stocking..even though I left home 7 years ago:rotfl: :rotfl:

comping_cat

My son is 10, and this year said he wasnt sure if there was a Santa, but DD who is 8 said she thought there was. They didnt ask me outright, so i didnt say anything.
Ive always told them that people buy them presents, and the Santa comes and collects them (he needs help cos him and his elves are so busy) and if you have been good, he brings them back, if you have been naughty, he gives them to other children and brings coal!!!!!