Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy

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Originally Posted by glatt

I remember being disillusioned when I figured out Santa wasn't real. I had friends who beleived in Santa long after other kids had figured it out, and had even told them. Their parents went to absurd lengths to keep the fantasy alive. That's just wrong.

Coming in late to this thread. Sorry. The above is exactly what my dad and step mom did to my little sister. She asked them point blank if Santa was real a number of times and they said yes. She got teased at school because she insisted that Santa was real and every time she came home crying they would insist the children at school were wrong. They even had some book serious they were reading to her at the time and one of the books dealt with finding out Santa wasn't real. I shit you not my step mom skipped over huge sections of the book just so my sister wouldn't find out. Their reason was they didn't want to ruin the fantasy for her. I am sorry but if she is getting teased at school over it, all you are doing is creating distrust and resentment in her when she finds out that all that teasing was based on a lie you didn't want to fess up to. I remember them threatening me with grounding that year if I told her otherwise should she ask. It put me in a shitty position because I didn't want to lie to her, but I knew if I didn't I would get punished and they would just tell her I was lying to her to be mean. I think after watching that crap first hand I would be more apt to not lie to my kids, but then again we don't have any yet so I cant really say for sure.