Friday Question #174
Did you believe in Santa when you were growing up? When did you stop believing? How did you find out he wasn’t real?
If you have kids, what will you tell them about Santa?
Of course, I thought of this because we started watching Miracle on 34th Street last night, and in the movie, the little girl does not believe in Santa (at first).
I remember thinking Santa was real when I was growing up. But I don’t remember when I found out he wasn’t. I was a pretty naive kid so it probably took me a long time to figure it out. Maybe when I was 8ish? From someone at school? Who knows! I don’t think one of my siblings told me.
Speaking of siblings, my older brother made me this nice video with a special message from Santa just for me! We thought it was pretty funny so we had to make a few more videos last night, like this one for Steven, and this one for Data.
Themocracy
I’m not sure when I found out but I did believe as a child. It wasn’t traumatic for me or anything, which is probably why I don’t remember exactly when.
Joey has told me that his children will know the truth about santa from the beginning… I told him I didn’t mind either way. My dad will probably be sad about that though.
I remember EXACTLY how I found out Santa wasn’t real. I was watching TV when a commercial came on. I don’t remember the brand or anything, but I remember this exact quote, “Sometimes we lie to our Children.” Insert Mom hugging child saying: “Yes honey, there IS a Santa Claus.” In my head, there was a sound of screeching breaks. I had no clue. I was probably old enough at the time to know, but was pretty clueless. I still had hopes for the Easter Bunny that following spring, but that “Thank You” note for the jelly beans had eerily similar handwriting to my mom.
Oh my gosh! What an awful way to find out!
I still think to this day… Who would put that in a TV commercial??
I’m pretty sure I believed. I don’t remember what or when I found out the truth. I was in grade school and one of my friends said she would never tell her kids about Santa and that’s it’s a lie etc etc. I thought ugh how horrible. Even then I got the whole idea of the spirit of Santa. My 5 year old is filled with joy when talking about Santa and all that jazz. Kids have to deal with so much other crap these days so believing in Santa is the least of their worries I think.
I was blown away when I found out about Santa at 5…I found out about the Easter Bunny and everything else then too. It was pretty harsh. I hope Lauryn’s experience with finding out the truth goes a little more smoothly for her 🙂
…..You mean he’s not real? :'(
Why is Data’s name Bud? 🙁
Because Data was not an option as a pre-recorded name. You should make some of those! They’re fun!
Already on it! Lol! http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/m_cM1vPnx9_G3bRL_3y_ASw
Santa almost didn’t recognize you! Ha ha. 🙂 Did Will like it?
I can’t believe he made the Nice List!
I don’t remember when I found out he wasn’t real. I was the oldest child, so I had to play along when my brother still believed.
We plan to do Santa with our kids, but I also want to focus on celebrating Jesus’ birthday.
I was all about Santa as a kid. When I was in 3rd grade, my older cousin tried to tell me he wasn’t real, but I didn’t believe him because he made stuff up all the time.
My cousin’s a lawyer now, by the way. LOL.
I have a co-worker who is a Jehovah’s Witness and she is very hard-core about not doing any of the traditional Christian holidays, including Christmas. She mentioned to me that her family worries it will be hard when she has kids. I wonder about that..
I was pretty old when I finally officially decided Santa wasn’t real. I think it had been coming for awhile, but I was holding out….
I don’t remember when I decided/learned Santa wasn’t real, but I do recall one year (I must have been 6 or so) when I was pretty sure he wasn’t real…until I came downstairs on Christmas morning and there was so much stuff under the tree that hadn’t been there the night before that I just KNEW he was real again. I miss that feeling.
I did believe in Santa when growing up. I stopped because some kids at school told me it was my mom. So when I did what they told me to do (look in the closet at home for presents) and I found toys for a 9 year old, I had to come to grips the dream was over.
At least until I became an adult and had my own child who believed in Santa for some years.