Today, my fifteen year-old son decided to tell his little five year-old sister that Santa isn't real. She now refuses to talk to any of us and thinks "her whole life is a lie". FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my 16 year-old son had a tantrum over me asking him to clean up his room, and decided to tell my 6 year-old daughter that Santa isn't real, and that it was me who bought her presents. My daughter is inconsolable. FML
Today, my daughter told my son that Santa is not real. Of course, being a child, he started to cry. My only problem is, my son is 11 and my daughter is 6. FML
Today, my older sister forced me to tell my nephews, 8 and 6, that Santa Claus does not exist, because she was recently fired from her job and is too much of a coward to tell them she will no longer give them any Christmas gifts for the foreseeable future. FML
Today, I was talking to my sister about how I need to buy gifts from Santa for my daughter, when my son asked why I would be buying them instead of letting Santa bring them. My son genuinely still believed in Santa. He’s 22 years old. FML
Today, I took my kids to the mall to see Santa. While waiting in line, my eldest got bored and loudly complained, "I don't know why we're here. Santa's not even real." I don't think any of the kids within a hundred feet took the news very well. FML
Today, my little sister came home crying because someone had shown her a video about the Slender Man. Trying to calm her down, I explained to her that he wasn't real, just like Santa Claus. She looked up at me and said "Santa's not real?" It's been 3 hours, and she hasn't stopped crying. FML
Today, my 8-year-old came home from school crying. Apparently her teacher told the whole class to write about how they felt when they learned that Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy weren't real. FML
Today, my mom mentioned that she doesn’t think she’s gonna let my baby sister believe in Santa. When I mentioned that I believed in Santa growing up, she casually replied with, "Yeah, well you were slow." FML
Today, on the bus, when I was asking my 6-year-old son what he wanted for Christmas, a stranger came up to us and yelled at him about how Santa Claus is not real, that his "parents are fucking liars" and that he should "never listen to anything one of those fuckers says." FML
Today, I was on the phone with my friend, when my four year old nephew came in, asking who I was talking to. I told him it was Santa Claus, so he insisted on talking to him. I handed over the phone and I hear, "Santa is fake. Grow up." I spent the next two hours with a screaming child proving Santa exists. FML
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Welshite 40
Beating donkeys are considered animal abuse. Just sayin'.
Welshite 40
Don't tell her about the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny then. She may go rogue.
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Comments (173)
droidlover 14
Beat his ass!!!!
Welshite 40
Beating donkeys are considered animal abuse. Just sayin'.
Sports_guy3 28
Don't be surprised if she committs suicide.
BrockALee 14
Tell her that Santa IS real, and that we are all just a figment of HIS imagination. Problem solved :D
Gingerette 8
64, you like seeing people in therapy, don't you? You're my kind of person.
MidnaLink 35
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
What they should do is say that he (Bro) is a figment of her imagination.
sempiternal80816 9
#6 LMAO!!!!!!
Thunderstruck14 30
Abusing a child for telling the truth? Great parenting.
lb0812 18
@91- He was not innocently telling the truth. He was probably deliberately being cruel. You wouldn't pardon someone who called another person fat simply because it may be true. Because that is inherently cruel, rendering the virtue 'honesty' null and void.
shakadoo 10
That's from Cyanide and Happiness :D
EverestMelting 23
Well we all know how those five year olds go through those stages. It all happens.
Lilxpie 18
I found out about santa not being real when I was 9. I heard kids at school talking and thought they were joking. I waited till midnight on Christmas to realise that santa was my dad.
gracehi 33
I was ten and noticed when reading the gift tags on my presents that Santa had the exact same handwriting as my mom.
sempiternal80816 9
wow
ItalianChaos 14
My brother did the same to me, she'll get over it in a few days.
TheCrispyCat 20
49, my mom is pretty sly, she uses this sloppy handwriting to say that this present is from Santa, but my grandma has a different handwriting... I began noticing...
Rose_916 16
I found out when I was ten, we were having a party and i went to bed so that Santa would come.I got up to ask my mom something since she was still awake because of the party turns out she went to the store so the door was unlocked and when i walked in her room i saw her friend wrapping the presents the look on her face was priceless! Then the next morning when I got up to see the presents I saw the same size and wrapping paper of the ones i saw they night before. It was horrible for me i can't even imagine what it would feel like for a five year old.
Vlen_fml 20
yeah, the handwriting and wrapping paper is what gave it away for me too around 7-8
TyT63 12
that sucks that it had to happen at this time of year too
extrasnipes 22
Wait Santa is not real..? :'( who's been giving me presents then?
TheCrispyCat 20
78 is joking... hopefully....
extrasnipes 22
no im completly serious
JMichael 26
Tell her he's kidding and that Santa is very real. Stage Santa shows up on your doorstep when your son is at school and she's home.
DocBastard 40
And then when she finds out later (again) that Santa isn't real, what will she think then? Perhaps you should rethink your plan.
bluehero 17
She will find out like normal kids do. Believing in Santa made it a lot more fun as a kid and she deserves a few more years of believing before facing the truth. It's not that big of a deal when you get a little but older anyway when she would find out. I doubt she would be nearly as upset.
rockydify 22
My parents didn't give me presents from Santa - guess what ... Christmas was still magical!
Welshite 40
Don't tell her about the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny then. She may go rogue.
ManInTheMachine 20
Wait...don't tell her what about the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy? That they work minimum wage? That they don't get health benefits with their job? That they can barely support their families?
Welshite 40
That they're both going to prison. Apparently the tooth fairy has been taking the gold and silver caps from the teeth she collects, melting them down, and selling the metals on the black market. The Easter Bunny has been arrested for using his tunnels for human trafficking. Shhh...you didn't hear it from me.
ManInTheMachine 20
What's next? Frosty becoming a cocaine addict? Rudolph using his nose as a cheap strobe light at shady downtown clubs? What are the upstanding holiday characters of our youth coming to? It's this damned economy, I tell you!
mike3775 39
I have to admit, the Rudolph line cracked me up.
mohamed_H 21
Hey welshite remember me? I used to hate u
underthesea12 24
it really is a lie tho
vipirius 18
The cake?
Welshite 40
I believe every child deserves some sort of magic in his/her life. It doesn't hurt them, but it encourages them to wonder. Better to have a few years of joy before they are thrust into reality.
gc327072 31
12/ That reminds me of that children's book called "it only gets worse".
illinoiscentral 16
#12 Apparently, it does hurt some of them. Case in point OP
olpally 33
Looks like someone is getting coal for Christmas.
BlueFlatts 20
While the other one is getting double presents. Horay!
jazzy_123 20
coal? Oh time to BBQ! lol
foxy_grampa 19
To a five year old that practically is her whole life
GRgoldfish 19
I don't want to sound mean but she'll get over it. at any rate if you REALLY want her to start believing again you could always arrange something in the house to where there's enough clues and hints that shows that Santa is real. best it luck op :)
Xotoolyxo 16
Tell her the guy at the mall is Santa's' helper because he is busy at the North Pole making presents (: