When Kids Stop Believing in Santa

Early this week, women recommend dear carefully wrote chat, make sure to let her old daughter continue to believe Santa Claus lies

"Reality that will eventually disappear" Columnist Emily Joffe wrote, "Sometimes there are lots of parents as real life, one of the pleasures of spreading small fairy dust, parents when they are children."

But in a late chat, when another man discovered the man, his or her parents wrote that Santa Claus, maintaining the author's ages until 9 years old "incredibly embarrassing" , He or she is a "fraud" for so long

So, in addition to the reality of early school Scrooge, in order to realize who actually leaves these gifts under the tree to realize, do you check the normal age of children?

In a research interview with accepting children, Psychologist Jacqueline Woolly of the University of Texas (Jacqueline Woolly) pointed out that five years after the decline of Santa Claus' belief. If the tooth faerie belief reached a peak too:

A study similar to her results in 1978, found that 85% of 4 year olds believe Santa Claus, but only 65% ​​of 6 year olds and 25% of 8 year olds believe in Santa Claus.

: Whether the children will discover the truth - Wooly told the NPR But it also depends on how the parent is trying to maintain the illusion of Santa Claus

2 Christmas [Woolie] Before her daughter is growing up, therefore, after her mother she started the experiment. She, if he is true, you can take pictures yourself, say Santa Claus and place the camera on a table that says a note. Wooly, in that year, Light Back Santa Claus is not playing it can not figure out the button of the camera, but she is no longer careful like last year, her daughter said "Christmas gift" I put it under the tree with reference to

Interestingly when adults interviewed, they say they believe and remember long. In 2011 AP survey, 84% of those who believe in Santa Claus found their adults respondents but they no longer think their true average age was 8 years old. Likewise, polls of former AP correspondents found that to stop religious beliefs, the age of children differed, but one third of those with different faiths, they I no longer believe it is a genius of 9 - 12 - I talk much more to Woolly than the children as follows.

Clearly, just like adults, they like to believe that time really is believed to be longer than that, just like kids absolutely believe in Santa Claus for an unnecessarily long time. Therefore, as long as you do not leave milk and cookies in the dormitory room of his college, you may not do magic otherwise, so you will live a few years again and will not hurt him

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