"When do you break the news to your kids that Santa isn't real? Do you let them realize on their own? Leave it up to other kids to fill them in? How do you approach the topic? Some parents don't do "Santa" at all, while some do but then sit their kids down to break the bad news (which seems like overkill). At some point, kids do need to learn the truth about Santa (unless you're Buddy the Elf), but how do you do it?"
"TikTok mom (@read_between_the_whines) noted that she used to be a person who swore she would never lie to her kids, but now, she wants to guide people to do differently based on her own experience. "Last year, the whole season, my oldest was saying things to me that's making me go, Okay, she's questioning the validity of this. Tread lightly. I would try not to lie," she explained."
"She said to her mom, "I don't think Santa came for me." That's when the OP saw what she thought was her opening for an honest conversation about Santa. "I went, 'You know how Anna and Elsa are very fun ideas to imagine? ... Well, similarly, Santa is an idea. He's a really, really fun magical thing to imagine...Santa did come for you. Daddy and I are Santa.'""
A parent revealed that Santa is an imaginative idea and admitted that parents enact Santa, telling a questioning child that "Daddy and I are Santa." The child cried and began to piece together the truth, producing parental regret. The parent had earlier vowed not to lie but now recommends prolonging the Santa myth for children who are starting to doubt, labeling them "cuspy kids." The parent described earlier cautious replies such as saying "A lot of people believe he is," then chose full honesty and experienced unintended emotional fallout.
Read at Scary Mommy
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