I think the gig is up

Dymphna

Dymphna

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I've always said that even when my children start showing signs of disbelief in things like Santa and the Tooth fairy, I will continue to confirm the existence of such beings anyway.

Well, my boys are 10 and 7. The older one is the type of child who will be 80 years old and still swear up and down that Santa, the tooth fairy, and Leprechauns are real. I know that he KNOWS the truth, but :shrug:

Well, the tooth fairy hasn't visited this house in over a year. And a few times when a tooth was lost in the past, the boys didn't mention it until AFTER the tooth fairy had failed to make a prompt appearance. Afterall, the tooth fairy knows these things, why bother mentioning it to Mom and Dad? This morning, my 10-year old couldn't wait to tell me he's lost his tooth and to top it off, the 7-yo had to tell me about his brother's tooth too. They're growing up. :bawl:
 
4d2008

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Dymphna said:
I've always said that even when my children start showing signs of disbelief in things like Santa and the Tooth fairy, I will continue to confirm the existence of such beings anyway.

Well, my boys are 10 and 7. The older one is the type of child who will be 80 years old and still swear up and down that Santa, the tooth fairy, and Leprechauns are real. I know that he KNOWS the truth, but :shrug:

Well, the tooth fairy hasn't visited this house in over a year. And a few times when a tooth was lost in the past, the boys didn't mention it until AFTER the tooth fairy had failed to make a prompt appearance. Afterall, the tooth fairy knows these things, why bother mentioning it to Mom and Dad? This morning, my 10-year old couldn't wait to tell me he's lost his tooth and to top it off, the 7-yo had to tell me about his brother's tooth too. They're growing up. :bawl:
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:poorbaby: My oldest son asks me questions about sex and drugs.
Ill stick with the tooth fairy stories any day. :killingme
 
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bresamil

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They better keep pretending, because you have a little one to have fun with.

Besides, people who don't believe in Santa get socks and underwear for Christmas.
 
Dymphna

Dymphna

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4d2008 said:
:poorbaby: My oldest son asks me questions about sex and drugs.
Ill stick with the tooth fairy stories any day. :killingme
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The 7-yo asked me a few weeks ago how does your body know you are married, so that you can start having kids. Then he and my 5-yo girl argued because she said that being married wasn't required for having kids...after all little so and so's parents aren't married. So, the 7-yo thinks about this for a couple weeks, then asks, "How can you have children when you aren't married?"
:twitch:
 
morningbell

morningbell

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Dymphna, you're lucky you made it that far, my son is 6 and has his suspicions but hasn't really said it yet. He is very factual, he'd rather read a non-fiction book over fiction, will watch Discovery Kids, How Its Made and Myth Busters over Cartoon Network, Nick or Disney. I have to find a young scientist program for him before its too late.
 
Dymphna

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Gwydion said:
They're not real?

:cds:

Kids at school probably told them both that they weren't real by now.
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But the 10-yo would ignore them because that's what he wants to believe. It amazes me the number of cartoons and children's movies that presume that people don't believe in Santa.
 
morningbell

morningbell

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Dymphna said:
The 7-yo asked me a few weeks ago how does your body know you are married, so that you can start having kids. Then he and my 5-yo girl argued because she said that being married wasn't required for having kids...after all little so and so's parents aren't married. So, the 7-yo thinks about this for a couple weeks, then asks, "How can you have children when you aren't married?"
:twitch:
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My god I love when their little brains work outloud!
 
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Dymphna

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morningbell said:
Dymphna, you're lucky you made it that far, my son is 6 and has his suspicions but hasn't really said it yet. He is very factual, he'd rather read a non-fiction book over fiction, will watch Discovery Kids, How Its Made and Myth Busters over Cartoon Network, Nick or Disney. I have to find a young scientist program for him before its too late.
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My 10-yo loves science and loves to experiment. He likes "How it's made." But he'd rather read science fiction and fantasy and try to figure out how to make these things real, rather than presume they can't ever happen. I try not to discourage him, afterall, talking to someone miles away instantly using words and pictures was once considered an impossible fantasy, who's to say someone can't invent a time machine one day or discover a parallel universe. :shrug:
 
morningbell

morningbell

hmmmmmm
Dymphna said:
My 10-yo loves science and loves to experiment. He likes "How it's made." But he'd rather read science fiction and fantasy and try to figure out how to make these things real, rather than presume they can't ever happen. I try not to discourage him, afterall, talking to someone miles away instantly using words and pictures was once considered an impossible fantasy, whose to say someone can't invent a time machine one day or discover a paralell univerise. :shrug:
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Thats how it is all starts with imagination, I have to get him some SciFi books for Xmas this year. Who am I kidding, he already told me he is going to be the next Steve Irwin minus the sting ray.
 

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RoseRed

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Dymphna said:
I've always said that even when my children start showing signs of disbelief in things like Santa and the Tooth fairy, I will continue to confirm the existence of such beings anyway.

Well, my boys are 10 and 7. The older one is the type of child who will be 80 years old and still swear up and down that Santa, the tooth fairy, and Leprechauns are real. I know that he KNOWS the truth, but :shrug:

Well, the tooth fairy hasn't visited this house in over a year. And a few times when a tooth was lost in the past, the boys didn't mention it until AFTER the tooth fairy had failed to make a prompt appearance. Afterall, the tooth fairy knows these things, why bother mentioning it to Mom and Dad? This morning, my 10-year old couldn't wait to tell me he's lost his tooth and to top it off, the 7-yo had to tell me about his brother's tooth too. They're growing up. :bawl:
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My 9 y/o still believes in it all. Even the faeries that live under the toadstools. :yay:
 
Dymphna

Dymphna

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vraiblonde said:
Smart kids :yay: Mine believed in Santa/TF/EB as long as they could get away with it because they knew that these magical beings gave them better presents than Mom did.
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I know I've told this story before, but when I was 7, I asked my mother for the truth, because the kids in school were talking. And she told me :bawl: But I had a younger brother, so we my older brother and I had to "pretend." My older brother and I kept an eye on the younger one, so that any questions he had would go through us and not to Mom and Dad, who were apt to spoil things with messy stuff like "truth."

My little brother is 33 years old and will still claim a belief in Santa if you asked him, even though he has children of his own now.
 
onebdzee

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4d2008 said:
:poorbaby: My oldest son asks me questions about sex and drugs.
Ill stick with the tooth fairy stories any day. :killingme
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:yeahthat: My youngest is 10 and about a year ago asked me what masturbation was :eyebrow: I referred him to my (now) 18 yr old :lol:

vraiblonde said:
Smart kids :yay: Mine believed in Santa/TF/EB as long as they could get away with it because they knew that these magical beings gave them better presents than Mom did.
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I believe in Santa....this year he is going to give me one of those new iMacs :biggrin:
 
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