Did you believe in Santa?

When you were a kid did you believe in Santa Claus?

Did you not believe?

Did you argue with kids who believed differently? Did you ever fight with other kids about whether Santa was real?

If your parents did tell you Santa was real, when did you find out he was not?

If your parents did not tell you Santa was real, what did they tell you when you started asking them about this Santa dude you heard about?

I AM Santa, red fluffy shirt, big white beard, have the Santa laugh down to where the kids AND mom turn and look!
Little kids give me hopeful looks this time of year, have a lot of fun spreading smiles this way.
blessings

Mot really. I was always soo "scientifically wired" to accept the practical possibility of some universally "Omnicient somebody" being able to service several billion houses in 24 hours.

Nope. I didn't much care what anybody else believed about him. I knew where my presents came from and that was fine.

IMAGINE THIS: Every Christmas season, in the late '40s, and early '50s, my mother and her sister would go into Boston with me, and we'd walk from the South Station (where the train terminal was) up Washington Street to where the big department stores were. They all had extensive window displays of Santa's workshop, and after that we'd go to Jordan Marsh up to the 5th floor where the toys, Santa, and the Model train layout was. AND THEY WOULD LEAVE ME THERE all alone, without any concern at all, and go off for a couple of hours to do their Christmas shopping in the stores there. IMAGINE feeling safe doing that in 2020!!!! The '40s were a different time. TV wasn't common, and we werent't surrounded by talking heads, spreading their distrust and FEAR back then.

I run into that as well, little kids telling their mom and dads that they have seen and Santa and pointing me out.

Have had so many instances of doing this, watching the child's eyes get big and jaw dropping! A kid was standing in the cart screaming at the top of his lungs, i worked my way over whistling Jesus Loves Me to try and change his focus, finally got next to him , looked down said, "Santa sees everything", his eyes got big, jaw dropped, looked at mom, she nodded her head, never heard another word out of him!

Awesome!

I believed. I have a vivid dream once where I heard something, looked out the window and saw Santa, his sleigh and reindeer. So once in elementary school during lunch some older kid was saying there was no Santa. I stood up and said loud enough for everyone to here, that yes there was a Santa, that I'd seen him with my own eyes. I said it with such conviction that the no Santa discussion promptly ended.

We taught our kids that Santa was a traditional game that some parents played with their children and it was a good idea not to try to explain this to other kids. No problem with the two older ones, but the baby went to the mall with her grandma, had here picture taken with Santa, brought her picture home ( she was about three) and showed it to my wife and I as proof that there was a Santa. I don’t have many memories that top that day.

I was thinking about this earlier today.

Back when I was really young, I was pretty sure there was a Santa in the north pole and another Santa at the south pole. I also thought the south pole Santa wore green instead of red.

i knew santa wasn't real, at 10, when i asked for a toy truck & a toy gun.

My oh my, that green guy is the communist Father Frost. He’s got coming with nukes to the good kids.😂

Oh that was the year that the Evel Knievel stunt toys came out. I told Santa I wanted the whole evel knievel set. He looked at me and said "Well, I don't know. We will see"..

I got the stunt cycle at my grandparents house. I had already told all the other neighborhood kids I was getting all of it. I forget what all was in it, stunt cycle, scramble van, rocket cycle, I forget what else.

Turns out I was the only kid in the neighborhood that didn't get any of it. Every other boy I know of got the van and the cycle. Some even got extra clothes for the action figure.

I wouldn't even look Santa in the eye after that. I must have worried my mom and dad to death that year.

I lowered my expectations considerably after that. It was about that time that clothes become a bigger part of Christmas and not near as much fun.

Now days, I'm glad to get coffee, brownies, peanut butter cakes, and such as that. I buy my own clothes. 😀

That sounds like this one comedian I was listening to, talking about when is the right age to tell your kids the truth about Santa. This comedian says that's easy. When your kid's Christmas list gets too big for your wallet.


"My boy was eight and he gave me a list with stuff like air jordans and an ipad. I was like whoa whoa whoa, playa! An ipad? This is some pretty high ticket stuff for an eight year old boy.

He said, well I think I've had a pretty good year, so I'm leaving it on.

I was like... Well... This isn't how I wanted to break it to you, but... You done backed me into a corner with your $3000 list. I'm Santa. Now go back upstairs and redo this list, and keep it under 150 bucks."

Evil Knievel and Big Wheels were the best.

I did believe in Santa. It was a great bit of fun the expectation of Christmas morning gifts under the tree. Santa got it right every time.

My mom never pushed the Santa thing, but I was told Santa gave gifts. Did the picture with Santa.

I stopped believing at around 4 or 5. I found my Christmas gifts wrapped, hidden in the closet. 🙃 I put it together and for some reason it wasn't a big deal to me. I guess I looked at it like a fairy tale.

Idk kids are resilient. I also think Christmas movies subconsciously give away the idea of Santa being a hoax bc they start off by the kid saying Santa isn't real. Then of course later in the movie we find out he is real.

I watch all the Christmas movies with my kids and casually looked over at my 6 year old during those type of parts and he looked deep in thought. He also mentioned something today about dad putting the presents there ( he didn't see bc it was me!). However I think he already knows but doesn't say it type of situation.