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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since we are talking about outing Santa... I thought I would warn people that Judy Blume's book Super Fudge totally talks about how Santa isn't real and only "babies" believe it is real.  The 4 year old in the book say this.

Judy Blume- who was raised Jewish: Said that she can't imagine anyone being upset about the book, because all children know Santa isn't real......sigh.....
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Wow, OP. Blame her Judaism. That’s not prejudicial at all. It couldn’t be any other reason.

I’m Jewish, and guess what? A Christian told me that Santa wasn’t real. [/quote]

When you were 4?[/quote]

Is your kid reading Super Fudge at 4?

I had older siblings so I pretty much never believed in Santa or the Tooth Fairy.  If you pin so much importance on your kid believing a fairy tale, then yeah, you can't really be mad when the inevitable happens ... [/quote]

Ha my poor 1st grader hasn’t lost any teeth and already knows the tooth fairy isn’t real (older sibling). When I heard him say it though I said if I ever hear you say that again she won’t visit you when you lose your teeth  :lol: [/quote]

See but why would you do that?  A 6-7 year old is past the stage of magical thinking and obviously won't really believe in that stuff unless their parents make a conscious effort to trick them/ convince them they are real despite the child's natural instinct to figure out in their own that they're not real.   Why not just let it happen naturally?  Santa is for 3, 4, 5 year olds.  Maybe in some cases 6 and 7 year olds that are a little less savvy.  But beyond that you're just  stunting them and lying to them for your own selfish reasons!  And finding out will be traumatic because it wasn't a natural progression, it was a bold faced lie by their parent.  It's not traumatic to find out naturally around age 5 or 6, just let it happen already.  You do not he's not ACTUALLY real, right?[/quote]

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