Do you believe in God?

[Alex]

Wow. I don't really understand the desire parents have to create fictions and trick their children into believing them (and then say it is all about creating "magic") but I don't really care that they do and don't think it is harmful.

But to punish the children for figuring out the reality of the situation. That just seems mean.

I don't really remember learning that Santa Claus wasn't real (I don't believe my family put any effort into maintaining the reality of the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny). But I do know that the year I was six I helped my mom fill the stockings and put out the presents while my sisters slept so I must have figured it out before then.

And then we took up with the Jehovah's Witnesses before my sisters were old enough to figure it out on their own. I have no idea how that was handled, or if it even was explicitly.