# Did you and do your kids believe in Santa?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-and-do-your-kids-believe-in-santa/741299>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 24, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-and-do-your-kids-believe-in-santa/741299 "2015-12-24T22:24:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-and-do-your-kids-believe-in-santa/741299/21 "2015-12-26T13:06:27Z")

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I was one week shy of being five years old when I **KNEW** there was no Santa.

We were leaving for church on Christmas Eve, at 6:30 PM. It was dark outside by then. While still in the driveway my mom “remembered” something and had to go back in the house. Through a crack in the curtains to the kitdhen I could see her put away the Oreos and milk we’d left out for Santa.

ZI knew then there was not a Santa, and no Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy either. But I kept my mouth shut just in case saying so would stop the goodies.

This incident I remember so clearly. What I don’t remember is that my mother says, when I was about eight, that she tried to break it to me gently there was no Santa. Mom says I replied “I know _ **that** _!”

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