Son of a beotch, my 7 year old son just found all his x mas presents.

[fastfredracing]

And he believes in Santa Claus too!. I'm soo pissed . I wanted to leave all his stuff up at my shop. She was worried it would get stolen. So she hides them in her closet, and bam, not even 24 hours after she put them there, security has been breached.
She did not believe in Santa Growing up, she thinks it is corny. I did, and I remember thinking how magical it was that the fatman in the red suit was bringing me gifts.
I was just telling her last night, that we will be lucky to get another year out of him believing in Santa Claus. Oh well.
How old were you when you found out?

[vash]

my parents were the worst lie tellers. i remember them wrapping my cousin's gift..wth?

busted!! i was around 4.

[redstrosekNic]

I was around his age when I realized it had to be fake. At least it wasn't spoiled at an age like 4-5 years, though. Like you said, he probably would have only believed for about another year or so...

[vash]

give him that "there's a bit of Santa in all of us" speech..

[ckelly78z]

Damn.....you mean there really isn't a Santa.....I just sat on his lap at the mall !

[Shuie]

We had to tell our 7 yr old that Santa outsources everything through Amazon. I think he bought it.

[dafischer]

I was about 6 or 7 when I went on a hunt for presents. I found them in the garage, in the rumble seat of my dad's 30 Model A cabriolet. Wow...cool stuff.
Then on xmas morning, there they all were, with gift tags from "Santa". Also presents from "Mom & Dad", "Grandma & Grandpa", etc.
So much for that Santa thing.

[racer]

Our kids waffle on the issue. I'm sure my older boy (9) tells his friends he doesn't believe, but I know he's not sure and still wants to believe. My 7 year old is all in. Heck, they both wonder how that damn elf keeps moving off the shelf. Then again, maybe I have stupid kids. Bummer that he found out like this though.

[doug_porsche]

You could have put SPOILER ALERT in the title!!!

now I hope the world does end on the 21st.

[URY914]

First it was reality TV and now Santa!!??!!

[Outback Porsche]

About the same age. I remember playing possum, and watching my parents playing at santa.

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[Aggie93]

In kindergarten I carpooled with a bunch of Jewish kids, so only 5 years old. I then told my cousin who was 4. My mom still reminds me how pissed her sister was with me.

My wife told our youngest last year. She was 10, but mostly knew.

[MBAtarga]

I found mine and my younger sisters gifts when I was in 2nd grade - 7 yrs old! I think I've grown up unblemished.

[HardDrive]

I just about pissed myself laughing.

[QUOTE=Outback Porsche;7146387]About the same age. I remember playing possum, and watching my parents playing at santa.

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[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally Posted by Aggie93

In kindergarten I carpooled with a bunch of Jewish kids, so only 5 years old.

I might've been one of those kids.

My wife tries to perpetuate the myth (I wisely stay silent), but I don't think my 7-year-old is buying it. He's pretty canny. Our 3-year-old just goes bonkers at the sight of Christmas lights; I don't think she cares whether there's a Santa or not. Last night she stuck her head deep into the Christmas tree, inhaled deeply, then gave it a big hug and a kiss.

[rattlsnak]

My oldest went to about 12. On the waffling years, I simply asked him, " are you willing to take the chance and not get any presents at all if you are willing to say you dont believe in Santa?"

He always thought about it, and then said no way!.. Lol

[speeder]

The worst part is that he's seen all his presents. Kind of ruins the whole x-mas morning anticipation/thrill that I remember as a kid.

[RWebb]

give them all to charity & buy some different items for presents

[Schrup]

I recall getting in a heap of trouble when I was 6 because I convinced the neighbor girl he wasn't real. Perhaps he's trying to milk you for another haul. I don't believe my boy was drinking the santa koolaid at 7, school kills it.

[tweezers74]

Originally Posted by BlueSkyJaunte

Our 3-year-old just goes bonkers at the sight of Christmas lights; I don't think she cares whether there's a Santa or not. Last night she stuck her head deep into the Christmas tree, inhaled deeply, then gave it a big hug and a kiss.

That might be the cutest thing I have read in a long time. So cute.

I remember when I was eight, my sisters and I found all of the presents in the closet as well. Dude! Not the closet. It's the first place kids look. I was kinda getting to that stage where I didn't believe but wanted to. Thing that sucked was my two little sisters were with me and my older sister so we kinda ruined it for them. Bad sisters. But we actually put all the presents back and pretended to still believe for the "parents' sake". Looking back now, that was pretty funny of us. And it was a big present too... Atari.