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Yes.

I rode in the town's Christmas parade as Santa this year. I didn't have any idea what to expect, but when the parade turned from the staging area onto the route, it was one of the best experiences of my life. Parents would bring little ones up to the sleigh just to touch me! To see the faces of the children who still believe was something else!

NO

Yes, hoping my 9 year old does a couple more years. For those with kids who haven't seen it yet, try this for your kids, it's amazing. www.portablenorthpole.com/tv. It's awesome!

I'm the only jolly ol' fat [censored] they believe in

nope. That was a fun *sarcasm* year, my daughter is way to smart for her own good.

My six year old - yes. My three old - scared of him, won't go near him. Guess he's getting a lump of coal

13 yr old--nope, but knows you have to believe to receive (and he had better keep the secret for little sister)

9 yr old--i think so, but not sure. This may be the year, but if he is smart, he will keep his mouth shut.

7 yr old--YES

My 14 year old knows that when she stops believing, she stops getting Santa Gifts.........

Yes and its becoming embarrassing because they are 21 and 30!

The grandkids really do love it!

Do my kids believe in Santa?


Why Heck Yes! I believe in Santa too!

Grandkids ages 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 and 4 = yes indeed. But who needs Santa, they've got Nana (and shirts that say that!) The older ones, 16 & 14, do not but they keep their mouth shut.

::Freak to AG::

So son, do you?

Do I what?

......sit on Santa's lap and linger just a little too long

Mine no longer do.

Text of "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus"

Dear Editor,

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say that there is no Santa Claus. Papa says "If you see it in the Sun, it is so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia,

Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.

All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to our life its highest beauty and joy.

Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus? You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your Papa to hire men to watch all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove?

Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see.

Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, or even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernatural beauty and glory beyond.

Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else as real and abiding.

No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, maybe 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the hearts of children.

Written by Francis P. Church, Sept. 1897
The New York Sun

The 19 year old won't admit to anything.
The 12 year old says she still believes (to get presents).

Step-kids - 9, 12 - No
My kids- 8 - yes / 9 acts like he does but I suspect it is to get gifts!

19 and 21 year old boys, no, but still good sports about it

12 year old, no, but says she does, I suspect to confuse her dad

Hasnt since he was around 6. Boy asked too many questions!

Mine don't, but then they are 29 and 26. The 29 year old was in Korea last Christmas, and I think it was hard on him. He seems really excited about being home for Christmas this year.

I used to make "phone calls from Santa" when I was in an Optimist Club. We had info sheets submitted by the parents, so we knew all about the kids, especially when they had been naughty. If they didn't believe at first that it was Santa on the phone, they sure believed when you started in with the details like, "Are you keeping your room clean?" Are you being nice to your sister (insert name)?

What???? Santa isn't real??? He's supposed to be bringing a "Hunk" for Christmas so I have someone to snuggle with on a cold night.

My little Jewish girls know they aren't allowed to tell their friends that there is no Santa - don't even ask why they had to have that rule instated in our house, (but I will say they went to the Jewish preschool...)

I like to tell them that he is real for the goyim, but Jewish parents make it up to their kids by giving 8 nights of presents.

Not my kid, but...I talked to my mom this weekend and she told me how my niece un-friended her uncle (my Bro in law) because he commented on my nieces wall about Santa being Satan, and believing him Santa was invoking the devil. Then my BIL's church friends jumped on board saying how my niece would burn you-know-where for her heathen beliefs and attacked my mom when she tried bringing peace to the conversation [saying something like "let it go"] Well, my niece had just about of enough of that and told her dad (my brother) that she didn't care to communicate with the uncle anymore. Even though she is 16 and doesn't really believe in Santa, she was still upset about the tone of the adults on this matter.

Strangely enough, this niece looks just like me but I promise nothing ever happened with my SIL.