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pauraque_bka Young Person of my acquaintance recently discovered that Santa is your parents. There was a modicum of despair, but I think everybody's over it now (except maybe his grandparents).
This is hard for me to relate to, because as far as I can remember, I never believed in Santa. I remember being very young and thinking that I needed to go to bed so my parents could get busy putting "Santa's" presents under the tree. I don't think my parents explained it; for some reason I just always knew that it was a way of pretending someone else was giving gifts, a way of being generous without taking the credit. It never bothered me. I got that some kids thought Santa was an actual guy who lived at the North Pole, and that it was considered mean to disillusion them, so I never said anything.
Am I the only one who never believed in Santa? How old were you guys when you figured it out? Did it upset you? What about your kids, those of you who have them?
This is hard for me to relate to, because as far as I can remember, I never believed in Santa. I remember being very young and thinking that I needed to go to bed so my parents could get busy putting "Santa's" presents under the tree. I don't think my parents explained it; for some reason I just always knew that it was a way of pretending someone else was giving gifts, a way of being generous without taking the credit. It never bothered me. I got that some kids thought Santa was an actual guy who lived at the North Pole, and that it was considered mean to disillusion them, so I never said anything.
Am I the only one who never believed in Santa? How old were you guys when you figured it out? Did it upset you? What about your kids, those of you who have them?
