Father Christmas is a bit of a perv really. He sees you when you're sleeping Why is he watching little kids in bed? Are the presents pervy guilt gifts? Is he grooming the kids? Here little boy, wanna come pet my red-nosed reindeer?
How old? My eldest (eight) started saying Santa wasn't real last year. Managed to convince him otherwise with the actions I took but waiting for it to start again this year. Can't just accept it either because of the second (six) is around and it would spoil it for him. Thing is, even if I was honest with the eldest he'd purposely tell his brother through spite when they are arguing
My middle child is 8 and still believes... I think. My eldest is 10 (turning 11 few days after Xmas) he stopped believing around 6. Then we convinced him he was real... And he started believing again... But last few years he has stopped believing again... Which is handy because his room has the perfect spot to hide the girl's gifts we've decided this year.
I'm not convinced my eldest believes. I think he goes along with it because he's scared of missing out on presents lol #justincase
The threat we told our eldest is that when the girls stop believing then no more toys. (we wouldn't really do that... But the year he first stopped believing he was trying to convince girls there was no Santa and my wife got angry with him). Personally, I don't care if kids believe in Father Christmas or not but the Mrs (xian) thinks it's important the children believe in make believe people. I've been unable to convince the kids Vampire Santa is real. The last two years they've eached received a badly wrapped gift from Vampire Santa. I told them it's a vampire that goes around and bites children whilst they sleep on Xmas eve and in returns leaves a present if their blood tastes good. They don't believe me though. They think I leave the vampire Santa gifts.
Oh they've grown up being told there is a water monster living in the water tower down the street that eats cats so don't let the cats out. (actually they can't go out because it's illegal to let them out in my county). They've also grown up hearing about their brother Frank and how he died (usually eaten). Eaten by an aligator (when kids ran off when walking around a lake). Eaten by the Easter Bunny (being naughty around Easter time). He's probably been eaten by Santa too at some times... I don't even remember now. When the kids asked how he could be eaten by so many things I told them we had lots of children named Frank until we realised it was such an unlucky name.
X is an abbreviation for Christ that has been used for Christmas and other "Christ things" since the middle ages.
Thumbs screws and the Black Death were around in the Middle Ages too- doesn't mean you want anything to do with them.
But Xmas saves pain by being shorter. - Torture often made body parts longer (but not the right parts). Black Death is still around today... Just not epidemic and rarely results in death with modern medicine. Xmas is a good thing. (except when people pronounce it as "ex-mas" that's just silly)
Trouble is, when I read Xmas it says ex-mas in my head, no matter how hard I try. Just don't like it.
