Super Fudge book outs Santa as fake

[Anonymous]

Donald Trump has also outed Santa as fake to a kid calling the NORAD line.

www.nytimes.com/2018/12/25/us/politics/trump-santa-claus-believer.amp.html

Hey, kids under 8 years old, thanks for reading The New York Times. But this time, please don’t. Maybe go play Minecraft or something instead.

… O.K., are they gone now? Cool. Here’s what President Trump said to a child about Santa Claus on Monday.
Donald Trump, answering phone call from 7-year-old on Christmas Eve: "Are you still a believer in Santa? Because at seven it's marginal, right?"
Sadly, we do not know how the 7-year-old, named Coleman, responded to the president of the United States’ suggestion that his parents had been lying to him all his life and that he would probably get wise to it soon. The president made the comments from the White House while he and the first lady, Melania Trump, fielded calls from a hotline for children wondering where Santa was.

Mr. Trump’s faux pas was roundly mocked on social media, where he was criticized for breaking the covenant in which we have all agreed to deceive our children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually think it’s more nuts that people can’t believe that children believe in Santa. Im gearing kids aren’t smart because they still believe and it’s ridiculous. Lots of parents remember the joy of Christmas and Santa as a kid and that’s why they do it for theirs. I’m starting to think all the parents who can’t believe had miserable childhoods.

Geez, unclench.

[Anonymous]

And YOU op just did the same thing when my child glanced at my phone and read the subject line... oh, the horror!

Now I have YOU & YOU alone to blame for ruining this for my child forever, you big hypocrite.

[Anonymous]

Interesting article about the Trump incident with the 7yo.
It reports that while adults say they believed in Santa until almost 9, when you ask kids themselves, researchers found that age 7 is around the age that they start to doubt Santa. And the more adults push Santa, the less likely kids are to question his existence.

Just found it interesting in the context of this discussion re: whether to let kids naturally find out/figure it out the truth about Santa, or whether adults should push Santa past the age when they would naturally start questioning.

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/26/680166158/girl-still-believes-in-santa-even-after-trump-casts-doubt-on-his-existence?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2056&fbclid=IwAR1dWmepsTrJ_zytql5rvXXIAS94SQ1ZPhxLfLpHuoExFcQQl8kpdAgXeTg