I caught my 9 year old cousin googling "Is Santa Real?" (daughter, 9 years old)
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Why say anything hes old enough to go along. MY 6 year old doesn't believe in santa the problem is constantly reminding him to not ruin for everyone else. I figured out santa was fake by the time I was 4.
At 9, if you insist on the Santa charade, an explanation that works is that there's one head Santa and a bunch of little Santa clones that work under the head Santa and each clone is responsible for a given area.
That isn't so hard to sell because a company has a head store and a bunch of smaller stores.
In fact, there really isn't any reason Santa couldn't exist in this capacity.
Tell them what that a 9 year old googled Santa? If the child has questions he should be able to ask and honestly I do not know too many 9 year olds who still believe in Santa.
When I was a kid it seemed like most found out between 7-9 years old. It was usually learned on the playground or lunchroom. However many parents nowadays go to extremes to keep it alive, with elaborate schemes to trick an older kid into believing longer. Look at elf on the shelf for example. Today you will find some kids over 10 that believe, but most of them get picked on for it. If they walk through the middle school door at 11 or 12 believing in Santa then they are really in for a rude awakening. Personally I would tell a child about Santa before they get anywhere near middle school age. Kids that age are cruel and mean, and peers may remember that little Johnny still believed in Santa in middle school for years on. I would not want to put my kid through that. That is why I told my son in the 4th grade about Santa, and then he proceeded to admit that he kind of knew it but didn't want to ruin his chance at getting the gifts. (I suspected that) He also told me at that time that about half his class still believed in Santa and half did not. By the end of 5th grade only a few did. Most kids go to middle school at either 6th or 7th grade depending on your area, and at that point usually none believe. However things I have read on the internet suggest that some 12 and 13 year olds believe.
Tell them what that a 9 year old googled Santa? If the child has questions he should be able to ask and honestly I do not know too many 9 year olds who still believe in Santa.
Isn't Google how we find out a lot of things these days? I don't find it inappropriate at all for a kid to Google this! If he's old enough to Google, he probably already knows the answer.
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Originally Posted by HighFlyingBird
My 9 and 10 year olds believe in Santa. It's not so unusual. Chatting their their peers, about half of them do.
OP yes tell the parents. They are taking it waaaaay to far. They need to back off and let the child figure it out...sans Google.
(W)aaaaay too far? I dunno. Some people feel "the real" Santa should never be seen, others feel differently.
Well if he googled it, then the first link to show up should be "How to break it to your kids that Santa Claus isn't real" so...
But I agree that it shouldn't impact the dinner plans, at least not this year.
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