Maybe when i was reeeaaalllyyy little--- but having grown up in an apartment building with no chimneys to climb down, I started having doubts at a pretty young age. Besides--- all our gifts were wrapped in the wrapping paper that my mom bought, so we knew who WRAPPED the gifts and therefore who bought the gifts as well.
Joined: 1 Jun 2007 Age: 53 Gender: Female Posts: 125 Location: Kent, England
30 Oct 2007, 10:53 am
My son is 15 next month and I don't know when he truly stopped believing - we've never discussed it as he's always kept up the pretence for my daughter who's 8 and still goes through the whole tradition we have on xmas eve of putting out the carrots for Rudolph etc. I love that he does this for her.
I don't remember ever really believing in Santa Claus as an entity. I was always more interested in the general spirit of Christmas. I never lost the celebratory spirit, however. I look forward to the Christmas season every year.
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Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Gender: Female Posts: 26,492 Location: UK
28 Aug 2012, 8:03 am
Yes I believed in Father Christmas, right up until the age of 9, but I really can't remember how I found out he wasn't real. I think in my 9th year of my life I just kind of figured out he wasn't real, and that my relatives were the ones who brought me my presents, all along.
I remember visiting Santa's Grotto in a shopping centre once, when I was about 4, with my brother, who was 7, and we were both excited and both actually thought it was all so real. That sweet innocence of being a child.
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