Does your kid believe in Elf on the Shelf? Do they believe in Santa? How old are they?

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Anonymous wrote:For all the parents who didn't do elf on the shelf - you are so lucky

You have a choice, PP! You can stop anytime.

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Anonymous wrote:I work in an elementary school. Any child who claims to still believe by 4th grade is willfully ignorant or faking because by 4th grade the reality is openly discussed by so many kids.

+1

I had to stop myself from rolling my eyes last year when my brother and SIL insisted that my niece and nephew (middle schoolers! 5th and 6th grade!) still believed in Santa. Um. No. They’re taking algebra for god’s sake, they’re not idiots.

First of all 5th and 6th grade way too young for middle school. What's wrong if they have fun with santa whether they actually still believe or not? Why are we trying to rush childhood?

My 6th grader says she believes in Santa, but the fact that she has to say it obviously means she doesn't. We think she's just worried that the extra presents will stop. Santa only brings 2 small things - we don't let him take credit for the big gifts each year.

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I knew Santa wasn't real by age 5 or so. Figured it out. Parents warned me not to tell other kids, lol.

Elf on Shelf after my time but hey great way to introduce them to Surveillance State!

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Anonymous wrote:I work in an elementary school. Any child who claims to still believe by 4th grade is willfully ignorant or faking because by 4th grade the reality is openly discussed by so many kids.

+1

I had to stop myself from rolling my eyes last year when my brother and SIL insisted that my niece and nephew (middle schoolers! 5th and 6th grade!) still believed in Santa. Um. No. They’re taking algebra for god’s sake, they’re not idiots.

First of all 5th and 6th grade way too young for middle school. What's wrong if they have fun with santa whether they actually still believe or not? Why are we trying to rush childhood?

My 6th grader says she believes in Santa, but the fact that she has to say it obviously means she doesn't. We think she's just worried that the extra presents will stop. Santa only brings 2 small things - we don't let him take credit for the big gifts each year.

And that's fine, but all I'm saying is that ppl need to let their kids be kids and not freak out when they act like kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Elf on the Shelf is just wrong. Anyone who is teaching their child that this is a REAL thing has serious, serious problems.

Hello Grinch.

It is real, you'll see. It will show up December 1st and move every night while we're asleep and travel back to the North Pole and report back to Santa about my child' behavior. The effect on my Child's not fully formed Child brain is magical. To my Child it is real. Cultivating imagination in Children is very healthy. Everyday and everything is obviously not a fairytale in our home, but there is nothing wrong with having some fun and festive traditions for young children. Trust me, when they find out these things are not real (ages 9-10 most likely), some of the magic is gone.

For now it's real, nothing wrong with cultivating and developing a child's imagination. They have the rest of their lives to live without such magic and the realities of life; most folks don't teach young children such realities right away.

OMG. It's not cultivating your snowflake's imagination, it's just creepy AF. READ your post, you sound absolutely insane.

Look at me everybody! I need attention! I like to use short authoritative foul language abbreviations! OMG! I have to interject nasty posts into normal discussions! 🤬 You sound like Don Quixote. Go fight those windmills!

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Mine is 12 and in 6th. She still believes in her elf and Santa.

She’s questioned it before but is still going strong.

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Haha, even my children think the Elf is creepy AF.