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Around 5 or 6 years old.
actually, last year
When did ya'll stop believing in Santa, or did you ever? I never did, parents obviously didn't play that game with me.
My daughter is 8 and still believes, my wife wants to keep going with it. I'm more like, we need to tell her before someone at school does and she argues with them and then made fun of. Thoughts.
Around 5 or 6 years old.
actually, last year
My daughter (10) figured it out, and gave me all the ways I'd knocked myself off last year to back it up and it was impossible to argue with her. I told her if she didn't believe in Santa Claus, he won't come for her. And to STFU and not say anything to her brother (8), who may be a little skeptical but still believes.
So I barely even got 10 years of pulling one over on them (which I love).
I personally figured it out when I was about 8 or 9 I think ... I would tease my cat and then run because he'd chase me...and I ran right into the closet with all of Santa's gifts in to hide from him.
when i busted my parents putting the presents from santa under the tree and eating the cookies and drinking the milk, i use to sleep in the living room by the tree
8 is to young wait until she hits double figures, my parents told me when i was 10, that was the worst day of my life!
I dont know about the Santa Claus but the tooth fairy still owes me money.
Santa isn't real????
i beat the out of the tooth fairy once for only leaving me 4 bucks
My parents got mad at me once because I ate the halfeaten brownies that Santa didn't finish.
Santa isn't real????Damn...beat me to it!
My mom didn't even hide the cookies. I thought Santa didn't want them.
I was 10 or so when I figured it out, but my mom always said that if you don't believe, you don't get gifts, so I kept my mouth shut. There was a raging debate in fourth grade, I recall, with the class divided about half and half. Everyone seemed pretty tolerant.
I do remember when my brother found out, because we all still feel awful about it. We were visiting my grandparents in Alaska, and they took us to Santa's Village at the North Pole, which is a huge Christmas and toy superstore. About half the year, they have a Santa and 'elves' around, but not in the summer. My brother really and truly believed we were going to Santa's house, and when it turned out to be a store was crushed. He accused us all of lying to him and cried about it for days. My mom gets all upset and teary when she thinks about it now.
If I was lucky, my toothfairy would leave me a brown colored foodstamp.
but my mom always said that if you don't believe, you don't get gift
That's exactly what I told my daughter.
she could always just find out on the internets
I'm 25 and my mom STILL says that. I pointed out that Jason has been filling my stocking for three years (oh, that sounded kind of dirty. That's not what I mean.) and that Dad and Lisa have given me a stocking, so really, it'd be ok if 'Santa' didn't give me anything. Particularly fruit. That's been hung over the fire. Cause, ew.
I wouldn't worry too much about her at school. I think you know for a long time before you admit that you know.
When I was about 7, I got a new bicycle for Christmas. And, LOTS of new clothes for my Barbie doll. I never even noticed that my old bicycle disappeared a few weeks before Christmas - hey, it was winter and I wasn't riding it much. Well, on Christmas morning, we went to visit this family that was close friends with my parents (and these people weren't very well off, none of us were, really, being military families in the 50s). The little girl, who I guess was about 4, got a new bicycle, too...and...IT WAS MY OLD ONE! Our dads had cleaned it up and painted it, and it had new tires, but it was definitely my bike! And, she had lots of new clothes for her Barbie, too! And, they looked exactly like MY new Barbie clothes. Then, I realized that a lot of the doll clothes were made from the same fabric as a lot of my clothes and my Mom's clothes (she sewed all our clothes back then). I tried to be really shocked, but deep down, I'd suspected for a couple of years. Maybe it's a little sad when you realize once and for all the truth about Santa...but not really...that's when you get to be part of carrying on the tradition!
I never told anyone about that bicycle until I was an adult.
we usually got things we shoulda had the whole year, like toilet paper.
My Mom is 72 and SWEARS that the Santa in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is the "REAL" one. She will halt everything, all the dinner preparations and whatever else is going on, a little before noon on Thanksgiving Day. And everyone in the house has to assemble before the television to see the "REAL" Santa.
She swears if you don't see him, you won't have a good Christmas.
I tell my kids if they don't believe in the spirit of Santa Claus and the purpose for it, they only get the gifts that family and friends give them which on a scale of 1 to 10, the gifts usually rank about a 2.
Santa always has the good stuff.
that's when you get to be part of carrying on the tradition!
Exactly.
Santa always has the good stuff
I guess I'm the only one who thinks 8 is long enough, ok. I guess i still got to put together half dunk in the middle of the night.
My wife pulls the old, were going to be going to talk to Santa in the next week or so. So you better behave or we will tell him you've been bad. She (daughter) says, I don't believe you talk to the real Santa, and then says she wants proof. Like some hair or piece of his clothing. In her letter to Santa, she even mentions to PLEASE let her parents cut some of his hair off. LOL.
I bet Santa can hook up the whitest snow
I have my kids email Santa ... to an email account I made up. So Santa emails them back.
That's what I did.
Is there a Santa Claus? - a physicist view
Consider the following:
1) No known species of reindeer can fly. But there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical).
This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.
Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight.
On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that 'flying reindeer' (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine.
We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each.
In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second.
Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.> In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.
(NOTE: This appeared in the SPY Magazine (January, 1990) )
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