Why would you tell him Santa isn’t real, especially a month before Christmas? Maybe you don’t understand him like I do, and I guess I can forgive you for that. It might be easy to look at him and say, “Well he’s 13 years old, obviously he should know that Santa isn’t real.” But here’s the thing; just because he’s 13 on the outside, doesn’t mean he’s 13 on the inside. Stop trying to force kids to grow up—stop trying to take away their imagination. I see a lot of myself in him, and the same thing was done to me when I was his age. “Grow up, stop watching cartoons, act your age, et cetera,” and believe me, you don’t want him to turn out the way I did. —iCare
This article appears in Nov 26 – Dec 2, 2015.
Fortunately we still have the House Hippo.
Uh…I’m almost 31 and I still watch cartoons. Cartoons are awesome. But I’m sorry there’s a big difference between being 13 and watching cartoons/playing games like tag with friends, etc and BELIEVING IN FREAKING SANTA CLAUSE. Your kid is an idiot.
I am 54 and watch cartoons. I play tag with friends… well adult tag. And I love it when Santa comes!
if my kid still believed in Santa at 13 I’d have to wonder what I’ve done wrong.
Belief in Santa Claus is one thing, but constantly telling a kid to grow up and act “his age”, because you’re too busy doing “adult” things to actually adult, is only going to have one result – an adult who won’t speak you because they’re too goddamned busy raising an ulcer, destroying their liver, and fomenting a heart attack to be bothered with you, or with grandkids, or even with dating; and who _will_ put you in the crummiest nursing home possible six hours away from them so they don’t have to think about you anymore. Tell that child’s parent what’s likely to happen in thirty years and to stop posting BS about how hard it was for them growing up and they turned out fine – because they didn’t turn out fine, and their kids won’t, either.
What? There is no Santy? Nooooo! Now see what you have done? Ha. Merry HoHoHo.
There is absolutely no way that a 13 year old had to be told that Santa isn’t real. He’s up in his room whacking to Mrs. Claus porn and laughing at you two idiots.
You’re raising a real Nobel Prize winner there.
Was is gonna take his first physics class to realize it was tactically impossible?
I found out ON Christmas…
when I was 6 or 7…
when noticing santa’s handwriting seems oddly identical to my grandmothers’.