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December 24, 2006
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph

- Shirley Temple

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Our son didn't stop believing in Santa Claus. Instead when he was six he concluded, and came to us for verification, that Santa was a symbol of good things rather than a specific person.


Posted by triticale at December 25, 2006 01:53 AM

You must have been very proud.


Posted by nic at December 25, 2006 03:16 AM

Remarkable! That is amazingly sophisticated for a six year old. Are you home schooling?


Posted by Perry de Havilland at December 25, 2006 03:41 AM

I'm with British comedian Rory McGrath who, when told by another boy at the age of 4 that 'Santa is your Dad', told his father that he was very proud to have learned that his father spent Christmas Eve flying round the Earth to deliver presents.


Posted by Julian Taylor at December 25, 2006 08:15 AM

Are we home schooling? Not anymore. He's in Kansas City, 9 hours drive from here living with the woman we hope will be his second wife.

We did, and had indeed started discussing the world with him by then. When stopped in traffic by a passing train it was my practice back then to point out various identifiable loads, and led at least once from that to the economics of international trade.


Posted by triticale at December 25, 2006 11:50 AM
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