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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two kids who are 6 yrs apart, so the oldest knows and the youngest doesn't.  THe oldest recently told me that he was sad when he figured it out, and he was quite old when that happened.  He didn't feel betrayed at all, as he said he understood why people do it, it's nice to have something fun and magical to believe in.  He's not about to ruin it for the younger one, either.  [/quote]

This is good to hear.  I have a 9 y.o. girl who is struggling to not believe, but we are not helping her one way or the other.  We have a 3 y.o. girl too.  9 y.o. happened to see the big present we ordered for 3 y.o. clear as day where the UPS guy left it.  She watched DH struggle to bring it into the house.  We are trying to figure out how we are going to make this work.  We got 9 y.o. something big too, that she hasn't seen.  I cannot bring myself to tell 9 y.o. that there is no Santa by giving the big gift to the 3 y.o. and having it be from Santa.

The added issue is that we are actually Jewish, so we could just give the "big" gifts as part of Chanukah anyway.  That would be a change in procedure, however, where Chanukah is for small stuff and the big stuff comes on Christmas.  Oh, the stress of it all.  Bah Humbug![/quote]

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