She wants to still enjoy the fun of Santa even though she knows the real deal. Don’t make this weird. Just go along with the fun.

My DD did something similar. She asked me directly if Santa was real and I told her he wasn't. By the time Christmas came around it was like we never had any discussion. I figured she had decided it was more fun for her to pretend so I rolled with it

DS is 12 and still makes comments like he believes so we are letting it be. I would guess that he knows that Santa isn't real but who cares? It is a fun time of year with a fun tradition. It makes him happy on Christmas morning and we have a bit of fun Christmas Eve. It doesn't hurt anything. I don't remember ever having a conversation with my parents about Santa or the Easter Bunny. I do remember hiding eggs for my younger brother one year.

Anonymous wrote:We don’t lie about Santa and still do/enjoy all the Santa stuff. It’s a fun game, just like Halloween or anything else. My daughter is four - half the time we’re pretending she is a dog or a cat. She doesn’t believe she is really a dog or a cat, and it is still fun. Also it’s more fun because she gets to be Santa sometimes (like we do an angel tree family).

We don’t lie about Santa and still do/enjoy all the Santa stuff. It’s a fun game, just like Halloween or anything else. My daughter is four - half the time we’re pretending she is a dog or a cat. She doesn’t believe she is really a dog or a cat, and it is still fun. Also it’s more fun because she gets to be Santa sometimes (like we do an angel tree family).

Le sleeping dogs lie Jfc

The Santa years are fun. But I wouldn’t keep bringing it up to her if she’s not asking.

My 12yo still talks about Santa.
I told her she’s too old now, Santa’s not coming. She said yes he is.
She knows, she just likes the magic and pretend of Christmas .

2 DCs had fun believed in Santa until older one heard some kids said it’s not real at school ( around 7 or 8), then started to get skeptical. I waited another year (so the younger DC would continue the Santa fun), then told DCs Santa would start to visit only kids their families were struggling financially and couldn’t afford to buy gifts. For families could buy gifts, the parents would take over Santa’s job and get gifts. Both DCs understood and it was a smooth way to stop the Santa tradition.

My kids have known since 5. They play along and enjoy the season. Nothing wrong with using your imagination. The one big thing that changed is that they now also think of what presents to get us parents.

Anonymous wrote:My kids know because we don’t lie

My youngest still doesn’t know bc we do lie. There are so few yrs of magic and I see value in that too. when we told my older son the truth (bc he was old enough and seemed very ready to know), it wasn’t viewed as a monumental parental betrayal of a lifetime of lies. He loved the magic and now helps make that happen for his sister.

My kids know because we don’t lie

My younger kid “knew” but didn’t want to know at that age. So we did similar things/had similar conversations.

My 7 year old asked me point blank if her dad and I were Santa and I looked her in the eye and said "Do you want to believe in Santa?" And she said "Yes" and I said "Okay then you believe in Santa."

I think kids this age know what's up but some of them still want to believe. So let her! "Mail" her letter, do cookies, giver her Santa presents, etc. This is probably the last year for her so let her keep this bit of childhood one last time. She wants to keep that magic alive.

My younger DD is in 2nd grade / almost 8. Last year she asked me some questions about Santa but I answered a bit vaguely. A few weeks ago she asked me “are you and dad Santa and do you get the presents?” And I said “yes”. She said “And the Easter bunny too?” And I said “yes, how do you feel about that?” And she said “that’s what I assumed.”

However, she sat down and wrote a note to Santa this week and asked me to mail it, and asked me some questions about Santa (like “how will he get in since we don’t have a chimney?”).

I’m trying to figure out if she was kind of asleep when we had the conversation, has somehow completely forgotten, or has just decided it’s more fun to ignore what I told her and do the Santa stuff. Would you tell your child again? Or just wait until they ask? For what it’s worth, my family continued doing stockings and “Santa” even after we all knew and I like the Santa tradition so I’m fine path continuing it, just very confused what’s happening.