“If Santa Claus is real how can he deliver all the presents to children in the world in one night? “It doesn’t seem possible to me, and I’ve never seen him, so I think he must be made up.” Isobel, 7.

It started with a boy in her class—some kid with a loose tooth and loose lips—who told her Santa wasn’t real. “It’s just your parents,” he said, as if he were reporting tomorrow’s lunch menu. My ...

It’s nearly Christmas and I know, from my own experience and from watching my children grow up, these are days when doubts about Santa Claus bubble up. It’s inevitable, kind of a right of passage, a ...

We’re back to a timeless debate in our society, which returns every year in December: at what age do you tell your kids that Santa is not real? Do you ever tell them, or do you wait for them to find ...

It's a day every parent dreads: When their child approaches them and begins asking pointed questions about Santa Claus. How can Santa travel the globe in one night? How do reindeer fly? How can he fit ...

As my fifth grader barged through the door after school one day, chatty as ever, she bombarded me with the statement I have been anticipating for years. “Google says Santa isn’t real,” she declared. I ...