how old were yer children when you told them?

circa 1987
my wee bairns were 4 and 6
and all about the communal landscape, talk of santa was the rage
i was confused, and disheartened too
i wanted badly to tell them the truth
i was advised, in a sternly manner
to allow the deception, and keep my attitude canned
i still don't know the right thing to do
or say
at any given time of night or day
make up some stories about elves and sleighs
add in a grinch, and a scrooge, but not any gays
i was determined!
i would end the farce, and tell them the truth
my wife wept, my folks were pissed
i got stuck on santa's naughty list
in the end, and it will never end
the community won, and my knee did bend

forever yers,
scrinch -the scroogy grinch

kiss my missile toes

Born 1944.
Was told Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy weren't real, before I went to kindergarten at age 4.
These days that would be considered child abuse.

@rookie54

Told us what?

@rookie54

My daughter figured it out for herself, about age 7, that the trail of Easter eggs leading down stairs and into the garden could not have been left by a rabbit who came in through the locked patio door, ergo, Daddy was the Easter Bunny. 😀

Young children believe in magic. It is a charmed life. Let them live it while they can, they will be disillusioned soon enough without you pushing them into it.

@rookie54

My daughters told me a few years ago. Sure, I was heartbroken, but also embarrassed. Turns out that I was supposed to buy them stuff myself all those years.

@relentless-red said
@rookie54

My daughters told me a few years ago. Sure, I was heartbroken, but also embarrassed. Turns out that I was supposed to buy them stuff myself all those years.

@moonbus said

Young children believe in magic. It is a charmed life. Let them live it while they can, they will be disillusioned soon enough without you pushing them into it.

@kewpie said
Born 1944.
Was told Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy weren't real, before I went to kindergarten at age 4.
These days that would be considered child abuse.

@very-rusty said
The thumbs down was being told there was no tooth fairy before you were even 4.

-VR

@kewpie said
It was all done as part of a package about fairy tales and not-real people. Probably contributed to my total rejection of Sunday School fairy tales not much later. I've been a complete Skeptic all my life.

@rookie54 said
circa 1987
my wee bairns were 4 and 6
and all about the communal landscape, talk of santa was the rage
i was confused, and disheartened too
i wanted badly to tell them the truth
i was advised, in a sternly manner
to allow the deception, and keep my attitude canned
i still don't know the right thing to do
or say
at any given time of night or day
make up some stories ...[text shortened]... nity won, and my knee did bend

forever yers,
scrinch -the scroogy grinch

kiss my missile toes