how do you tell a six years old that there is no real santa claus?
my daughter is 6 yr old. she believe in santa clause. she just informed me that she make a $5.00 bet with some older kids at school that there is really santa clause. she is going to prove it to him when she received the diary she want. she believe it from santa claus.
Marlene
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Probably get someone else to do it for you. Since you only have a close acquaintance with literacy, I doubt she would understand you.
Why would you tell her? At 6, she’s happy in her belief. She will find out on her own at 8 or 9.
Get her that diary. Put Santa’s name on the gift tag.
let her keep beleiveing, shes little. she wont beleive them if she really does beleive.
I agree… get her the diary. Just make sure its exactly the one she wants. Tell her that some older kids no longer beleive. But that you know 4 a fact that their is a real santa. Then tell her that if she believes she will get what she wants… and if she wants to believe the older kids then she wont. Cuz santa only visits kids who belive (kinda like fairies).
Then have a talk with her about gambling… its not a good habbit at 6!
She is six don’t tell her that wait till she is older come on why do you want to wreck it for her. If she said those older kids say that you bought her it just deny it. Wait till she is about 9!! Dont tell her now!!!
Are you sure there really IS NOT a Santa Claus?How can you be sure?How can anyone be sure about Elves,Trolls and Dragons?Is this Reality or a Dimension?
Who are we?
Let her believe in Santa Claus,get her that Diary from Santa,and go on.In a few years she will bet there is a God.How will you handle that?
Fantasy,Imagination and Creativity is formed during our early years.She may become a great Illustrator of Unknown Beings,what do we know?
Go shopping.She expects a Diary from Santa.
Happy Holidays!
awww, I have a six year old and I let him believe in Santa…I dont see the harm in it, even tho I am not big on xmas 
Awww, don’t break her heart yet. I agree, get her the dairy and write “from Santa” there is a magic in Santa for little kids. Don’t take that away yet.
Good Luck!
my mother told me when i asked that ” when you don’t believe in Santa its never the same ” i think there is so much awful stuff in the world let them hold on to that innocence !
omg talk to the older kids parents,
they shouldn’t say that to little kids
its wat they get joy from
u don’t. the magic of christmas only lasts so long let her have this one more year she will be lucky if she believes next year, i hope she does though. kids are kids let them be little while they are
You don’t tell a six year old that there is no Santa. Let her keep her innocence as long as she can……….
I’m not telling my 6 year old. Let her believe….we get to believe in so few things nowadays.
WELL BY 6 I THINK SHE SHOULD KNOW… BEST WAY!! MAKE IT LIKE A SILLY JOKE LIKE HEY I KNOW SOMETHING U DONT KNOW BABY MAKE IT SILLY N FUNNY LIKE MAN WE REALLY GOT U HUH?? BUT NOT IN A TEASING WAY!! N APOLOGIZE 4 THE LYING BUT EXPLAIN IT IS A TRADITION N HOW IT ALLLLLLL STARTED!!
Get her her diary and try not to make her grow up so fast, keep that childhood innocence as long a possible.
No ofense but let the girl believe in Santa Claus for however long she wants maybe you should tell her at the age of 11 years old! Some kids do believe and others don’t and if they do, then they probaly have a good heart!
Please don’t burst her bubble… She’s still pretty young, she’ll figure it out on her own (at school). Why crush a child’s fantasy of the big jolly man in red? If Santa makes her happy, keep Santa alive…
My 9 yr. old still believes in Santa and I’m happy she does. Unfortunately that will change far to soon for my liking. I want her to believe there’s someone who goes around the world giving toys to children. I would much rather she believed there was a jolly old man who helped make good in this world, then that there wasn’t any at all.
Heck, I didn’t find out till the 6th grade. I guess I knew logically, but wanted to hang on to the belief for as long as I could.
Even now, as an adult, I believe there’s a little bit of Santa in all of us. It’s the little things. When you hold the door open for someone or help someone pick something up that they dropped. When you donate a toy at Christmas time or a dollar or even a little time. When you read a story to your kid’s class, or help someone find something at the grocery store despite the fact you don’t work there.
So even when she no longer believes there’s an old man in a red suit who is immortal and delivers toys to children all over the world, I will help her see that kindness and goodness do live on. That it’s the little things you do to help people, not just the big, that makes the idealism of Santa come to life. Hopefully she will pass it on to her kids.
i honestly think you should let her belive and get her the Diary she wants dont break her heart
Let her find out for herself, my 6 year old neice was walking around at school telling everyone that santa doesn’t exist and it’s just their parents, she got told this from her father, she has nothing to look forward to at christmas time now does she?
Christmas is for KIDS
Payton
get her a diary… let her believe as long as possible