A reader asks parenting expert alysonschafer: “My 7 year old son is starting to question if Santa is real.” — via healthing_ca Healthing parenting issantareal
They start to realize the beard looks unrealistic, or that Santa doesn’t look the same when they see him at the mall, the school assembly, and the holiday party hosted by their parents’ workplace.Kids don’t want to look like “babies,” so the minute they know the truth, they often want to prove their maturity by announcing that he’s not real.
Your son is the age that skeptical thinking begins. In fact, the average age of knowing the full Santa story is eight years old. Remember, that’s the average — some kids never believed in Santa in the first place, and many kids believe until they are 10 years old. There are also those years our children have a very good hunch that Santa is not real but they don’t want to lose the magic or the potential of extra gifts that the bearded jolly old soul brings them, so they say they believe, but who really knows.
When my children asked me about Santa, I answered that I believe Santa is real. We watch Miracle on 34Street every year to provide my proof of the truth. Santa or Kris Kringle is the miracle of Christmas and I see miracles everywhere when I look for them. The Christmas food banks, the neighbour who shovels the elderly lady’s driveway, the special love we feel when we are together as a family Christmas morning. That’s my Santa.
While we can never fully know how a child will interpret the events of their life, the cultural icons of Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny and Santa from the Christian traditions are so well known, it’s unlikely that a child will hold long-standing resentments for keeping these traditions alive when they have perspective.
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