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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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Sitting_Ducki 8
There are worst ways to find out. Nephew found out by his dad telling someone about searching for that one special toy forgetting Santa brought it lol
Thunderstruck14 30
You're upset because you lied to someone and they got angry? Well what did you expect??? News flash: kids don't like when people lie to them. How would you like it if your kid lied to you? You'd be upset too, right? Treat others like you'd wish to be treated. As for the older child who told the kid the truth: good for him. Lying is bad and telling the truth is good. Apparently he knows right from wrong.
Xikira 7
When I was a child I thought Santa exsisted. But as I grew I understood that although there was a saint Nicholas sant didn't exsist. I told my mom when I was seven. I was never upset that I was 'lied' to. I was happy that I got to be a part of the Christmas tradition.
hunts19ketchup 23
I would tell him that since felt the need to tell his sister that there's no Santa, he won't be getting any presents under the tree this year.
xnyletak 17
That's kind of cute in a sad way.
YouKnowIMeantMe_ 21
Remember one little thing: kids are not some separate beings. Kids will grow up and be adults. There's absolutely no reason for you to tell your kids Santa is real. I feel sorry if not believing in an imaginary being while you're a kid will take the magic out of Christmas. Christmas should be amazing because you're having fun with your family and everything shines, not because you'll need to behave or an imaginary man won't give you presents. If you can't get what you really really wanted for christmas, you should know that it's because your parents make an effort to get money, and that same money will be the one getting the gift, and sometimes there isn't money left. You might think this is an heavy burden for a kid, but it isn't. This will teach them the value of things and that sometimes people make sacrifices for other people's happiness. I never ever made a scene in a store because I couldn't get what I wanted. You know why? Because I knew things would be bought with my parents sacrifice. It was the same reason why I would take care of my toys and would be so so happy whenever I would get a new one. You shouldn't lie to your kids. They're not just kids, they're adults in formation. Telling a lie to them will just teach them that it's okay to lie to make things easier. They're not as stupid as you might think, and eventually they'll grow up and know better and still have those bad examples from you. Just because everyone does one thing it doesn't make it right. A childhood can be amazing will just real life, in fact, real life is the most amazing thing of it all. Tl;dr? Read it anyway, don't be lazy!
glitterkuro 18
I agree with you. This discussion has been a big one in my house at the moment: I don't think telling kids Santa exists is healthy, my partner disagrees. The problem as well is that Santa is used as a controlling tool for parents to manipulate their kids. Like the whole Elf on a Shelf thing people find so damn cute? Creeps the hell out of me. It's a way of parents controlling their kids by lying to them that a doll is watching everything they do. And the whole "he sees you when you're sleeping" thing? Telling kids that they're constantly being watched by magic people is a bad thing to do, in my opinion. Sorry if you disagree, but there it is. I also think it's a shame that the kids don't appreciate the hard work their parents put in to buy those gifts and to make Christmas 'happen'. Me and my partner have decided that if we do end up having Santa, he won't have such a massive role. He will maybe be somebody who helps out Mum and Dad, so our kids appreciate that Christmas isn't all about Santa, but is about family. I wouldn't ever lie if my kid asked me if Santa was real though. Nor do I think I would out and out say he was real. I would probably treat it more like a story.
tukies 28
It's more about personal opinion. I see nothing wrong with either side. I don't understand why people think it's such a big issue either way. Kids seem fine no matter which way the parents decide to raise their child to believe in Christmas spirt.
glitterkuro 18
Yeah, I don't object to the idea of Santa itself. What I do have a big problem with though is Santa being used so the parents can say "Santa is always watching you and if you do anything wrong then you won't get any gifts". I don't think threats are the right way to parent.
YouKnowIMeantMe_ 21
glitterkuro - I completely agree with you. Saying that kids should behave because there's something watching them or because if they don't behave something will punish them it's the wrong way to do it. They shouldn't behave because otherwise there will be bad consequeces. They should behave because it's the right thing to do. They should behave and be good because everyone else deserves respect and they're not the one ones in the world and so on. It's like, not killing someone because you might go to hell. This is wrong! You shouldn't kill because everyone deserves to live, and you're not more than that person. It's wrong to educate based on fear or shallow gifts. Kids need to know from early age why they need to act this or that way. It's from early age that they sink things up. You won't learn the bases of your personality in adolescence. You learn it from when you're a kid. tukies - See above, for why I don't think it's all personal opinion. Education and example from early ages it's what will be the base of your personality. Obviously this goes further than telling the kids that Santa is real or not, but still, it's one example they give to their kids of a lie.
Spark_Slicker 19
That's why I personally don't agree with parents pretending to their kids that Santa is real. Some will argue that Christmas won't be as "magical" or fun for them if they don't believe, but my parents from the start let me know he didn't exist but that it was fun for some kids to believe in him, and I still had awesome Christmases as a kid.
tukies 28
Put coal in his stocking. That will surely show him a thing a two.
rockydify 22
If you teach your children to believe in Santa, then you need to be able to deal with the consequences. YDI.
laurenlaurenta 6
Was going to happen at some point..