Santa Claus and kids

[WolfoxOkamichan]

I'm watching some toons and skits involving Santa Claus and children with long lists... in real life, are there really children like that - spoiled brats or at least greedy ones who wants to have a very long list and such? I wonder how these children go through to the "Santa is not real" phase...

And a side question - how did you cross the "Santa is not real" phase?

 

[alaskawolf]

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0102/feature7/index.html
he is real, i used to work with him at pizza hut a decade ago . im not kidding

 

[Talvi]

Sister: Santa Claus isn't real. Mum buys you presents.
Me: Yeah?
Sister: Yeah, look, your playstation is right in her bedroom cupboad. There it is.
Me: Oh. Cool, there's a playstation game here I didn't ask for but wanted anyway.

 

[Gavrill]

I always talk to little kids as if Santa were real, mostly to make them doubt themselves. I didn't stop believing till I was 12 and woke up early....and helped my step dad and his mom put stuff in the stockings. She even said something along the lines of "Yeah, and don't tell your cousin what we're doing because he still believes."

Worst Christmas ever.

 

[Azure]

I like Santa Claus, if only for the children to grow close to him, and then have him ripped away, it provides such emotional despair. I never believed in Santa Claus, as I didn't grow up here in America, with all the commercialist bullshit bombarding me every 10 seconds of the day. And once I got here(I was like 7 I think)my parent's never bothered to spin him to me.

 

[WolfoxOkamichan]

^Same.

I wonder how the kids cope with the reality tho.

 

[TakeWalker]

I really have to wonder when and how I stopped believing in Santa Claus. o.o I think it was due to peer pressure in school, honestly. I wouldn't have found out otherwise. Mulder-like, I wanted to believe, and held on for a lot longer than most people, I think.

 

[Eevee]

I don't really recall, but it was certainly a good hint that Santa's handwriting looked just like my dad's.

I could never tell my children that Santa is real. Lying to children just so we can go "awww" at their infallible trust in adults is despicable and probably part of why we lose that trust.

 

[Nocturne]

I think its wrong to tell kids that santa is real. My parents always let me know that it was just pretend and I was still able to enjoy it. Better that than the inevitable disappointment

 

[CyberFox]

this is a famous editorial that speak for itself about the truth about Santa

 

[X]

i stopped believing at 11, no idea why, the whole "Santa" thing didnt make sense to me. honestly, where does the guy get all the cash to buy those presents?

 

[Tycho]

I don't really recall, but it was certainly a good hint that Santa's handwriting looked just like my dad's.

I could never tell my children that Santa is real. Lying to children just so we can go "awww" at their infallible trust in adults is despicable and probably part of why we lose that trust.

My grandparents insisted on maintaining all the Santa and Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny shit until I was in my teens. My mom had disillusioned me about all that when I was 6 or so. I just played along. It should be noted that the gifts I got from Mom were always better than what "Santa" dropped on me.

Also, "Santa" had a thing for putting nuts and an orange in my stocking along with the usual bits of candy, pencils and erasers for later when school opened again, Matchbox/Hot Wheels cars and Micro Machines, etc. The nuts I liked. Getting almonds, pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts and brazilnuts in the shell is never a bad thing IMO. Delicious. But I don't like fresh oranges. I said so at one point. I suggested that "Santa" drop me a pear, an apple, a plum, a peach or a nectarine instead... nope, still got more oranges.

I'm inclined to believe that the whole "Santa" thing is primarily perpetrated by parents as a (poor) method of keeping their kids in line.

 

[PriestRevan]

Well, Santa's not really supposed to give spoiled brats gifts, as they would be on the naughty list.

Yes, there are children who are spoiled rotten. If they don't get what they want, they lose it... plain and simple. Of all kids, they probably have the hardest time thinking Santa isn't real (but then again, they may have not even believed in Santa in the first place).

As far as me not believing in Santa anymore... umm... I took it pretty well. I used to live in Germany and Christmas is a pretty big thing there... meant a lot. Santa wasn't so commercialized there as he is here in America. I still think he exists in a way, as he is the ultimate symbol of piece on earth, but I don't believe he exists in a literal sense.

 

[Fox Glove]

I think I always knew he was pretend because kids at school told me so...

And of course I had to wonder how the fuck "Santa" got a cage with a pair of Zebra Finches down the chimney.

GOD I LOVED THOSE THINGS! ;-;

 

[AlexInsane]

If there are kids out there that go to bed crying because Santa isn't real, then they're in dire need of a reality check.

Most kids do just fine. It's a milestone of adulthood; putting things like Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and the Soul Cake Tuesday Duck behind you and looking forward to taxes, taxes, and sweet, sweet death.

 

[Sylvine]

I was fortunate enough to have a mother who didn't pull the santa bullshit on me

THen again, she did try it with "God"...

Hm.

~Sylv

 

[Magikian]

I always talk to little kids as if Santa were real, mostly to make them doubt themselves. I didn't stop believing till I was 12 and woke up early....and helped my step dad and his mom put stuff in the stockings. She even said something along the lines of "Yeah, and don't tell your cousin what we're doing because he still believes."

Worst Christmas ever.

Come on, how about having your mum come home staggering drunk and ask you and your sister to help put the presents out.

 

[pheonix]

I was young and bored, went through my parents room, opened the closet, and boom an N64 from santa in November.

 

[xxscenesterfur]

I never believed in Santa as a kid, I just thought it was too unrealistic.

And I used to be terrified of the Santas at the mall. Haha.

 

[pheonix]

I never believed in Santa as a kid, I just thought it was too unrealistic.

And I used to be terrified of the Santas at the mall. Haha.

I think you're lying to look cool. You mean to tell me that when you where 4 you weren't like "I can't wait for santa to bring me presents, I hope he gives me what I asked for"?

 

[Gavrill]

Come on, how about having your mum come home staggering drunk and ask you and your sister to help put the presents out.

Ah, the magic of Christmas.

 

[Ratte]

Santa Claus is a child stalker.

 

[AlexX]

I asked my mom about it one day when I was like 10 and she told me the truth.

 

[Time Bandit]

Kinda hard to belive those lists.

And I always knew. It's just hard understand why parents lie to thier kids like that.

 

[Ratte]

Kinda hard to belive those lists.

And I always knew. It's just hard understand why parents lie to thier kids like that.

Nothing makes a kid wet themselves more than "If you don't shut the fuck up, you'll be on Santa's naughty list".