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I know many of you will hate this, but we have always told our kids that Santa was pretend.  It doesn't ruin the magic because we still talk about Santa and give gifts from him.  When my kids were younger, they kind of convinced themselves for a while that Santa was real despite the way we had framed it.  We didn't correct them but periodically reminded that he was pretend and always answered honestly when asked.  The one trick has been telling them not to tell others, but since we always framed it as a fun story, they never really have felt like they needed to discuss with anyone whether Santa was or wasn't real.  They play and watch pretend characters all the time in videos and books, so I don't think it's that odd to have a pretend character at the holidays.[/quote]

This is exactly what we did. We would remind the kids in the summertime that Santa was pretend, but they wanted to play along at Christmas time and would wonder what Santa would bring (sometimes with a wink). They loved Christmas just as much and never ruined it for anyone else because they liked to play the Santa game too.

Like a PP I hated having to pretend I didn't "know" so I wouldnt hurt my mom's feelings, as she was very invested in making sure all her kids believed. It became more about making sure my mother enjoyed Christmas, and I had to play along through college. It made things tense around Christmas time because we kids had to make sure we didn't let anything slip to my mom, even when the youngest of us was in high school![/quote]

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