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2 days agoSF's Santa Cable Car + Free Holiday Photos
Free photos with Santa on an iconic San Francisco cable car at Hyde/Beach Turnaround, December 13 from 11AM to 4PM.
She'd recently turned 11, and in my heart, I knew she no longer believed in Santa. "Mom! Don't forget, I want Monopoly," she casually called back. I scrunched my eyelids together, holding back hot tears. Santa, the only arbiter of Christmas gifts in our household, was also the magic link to my Italian Catholic childhood for me and for my Jewish children, whom I'm raising in my husband's faith.
When do you break the news to your kids that Santa isn't real? Do you let them realize on their own? Leave it up to other kids to fill them in? How do you approach the topic? Some parents don't do "Santa" at all, while some do but then sit their kids down to break the bad news (which seems like overkill). At some point, kids do need to learn the truth about Santa (unless you're Buddy the Elf), but how do you do it?