What age should we reveal the secrets of:

lovemedead · 04-11-2009, 06:59 PM

-The Easter Bunny
-Santa Claus
-Tooth Fairy
-The Great Pumpkin (naaa I'm joking.)
-And any other random creature of childhood imaginations.

I learned around 8 years old that such fantasy characters did not exist. This was due to a friend telling me, but my parents did not relise I knew of this secret.
It was not untill I was about 14 that I told them I knew, after trying to tell them countless times before hand. And they thought they could be slick and make up some reason why such creatures existed. Luckily at 14 they knew it was time to stop with this cherade.
But what if I really did still belive them? I would consider it sad if any non-handicapped child still belived in this.
And please don't think that I'm being judgemental on handicapped people, My little brother is, and I know he'll probably belive in Santa and whatnot for many more years to come (he's 11 now).

Anywho, what age do find it appropriate to tell children that Santa and other myrhical creatures do not exist?
Some of you may think the magic should be belived as long as possible, others may think at a certain age children should know; so they can begin to "grow up".
State your opinions

**Ash** · 04-11-2009, 07:01 PM

Iho let them keep on believing in Santa clause and all that nonsense as long as possible; once the magic of childhood is gone life is pretty shitty until you have your own kids XD

lovemedead · 04-11-2009, 07:08 PM

Yeah I do agree, once the magic is gone...life gets duller.
I myself can't wait untill I have my own kids, and be Santa. It'd be fun to know I'm creating a sort of magic for my children.

**Ash** · 04-11-2009, 07:12 PM

when I have kids; Im going to go to length to make sure that my children beleive in Santa.
I should dress up in a suit and beat up the kids who don't beleive.
that would be memorable.

**Sejiru** · 04-11-2009, 07:14 PM

I'm waiting for the day the pedo santa story comes out...

On a related note anyone got a redsuit and a big sack I can borrow?

lovemedead · 04-11-2009, 07:21 PM

ahahaa pedo santa?
I hope I never have to tell such stories.
I'm going to do what my parents did for me and right notes on the dollars the tooth fairy left me, and a special note from Santa, about how I was such a good girl.
All these ideas are coming to my head. To bad I won't hae kids for another ba-gillion years.

**Mrs. Morris** · 04-11-2009, 07:21 PM

I'm not really sure I'm OK with the idea of lying to my kids for x amount of years about something like that. It's something I've thought about for a long ass time now, and I've always leaned towards just not telling them about a santa claus at all.

As for the tooth faerie, and easter bunny......Idk. Something else I'd probably avoid. So who knows. I guess when the time comes I'll find out what I'm going to do. lol

**Sejiru** · 04-11-2009, 07:23 PM

Chances are even if you don't tell them there friends will try and convince them they're real and that'd become a conflict of trust. Would you really alienate your child from his peers because of your moral values? HOW SELFISH! I LOVE IT!

**Mrs. Morris** · 04-11-2009, 07:26 PM

I'm going to teach my kid how to be the total dick and tell EVERYONE in school that santa isn't real.

I remember I believed in santa, and I convinced my friend that he was real because we went to see him on a field trip.....so we got there and got to take our pictures with santa and I'm like 'LOL TOLD YA HE'S REAL'.

But yeah. I was angry when I found out he wasn't real and my parents had lied that whole time. D:<

lovemedead · 04-11-2009, 07:36 PM

lmao gee. I hope my kid never runs into someone who's goal is to tell the truth about santa like your training your kid.

I think once my kid comes to me and says "I KNOW"...
then I'll have to explain why I told such a fantasy. And that we all need to belive in a little magic....or else they'll have a very dull life like their mommy has D:
And nobody wants that!