Good god this is a hard one!! It must be so hard to blatently lie to your child about something like that (after all it is lieing, excuse spellin). To leave them in utter suspence no knowing whether to trust you or not!! On the other hand, as far as im concerened believing in all the airy fairy stuff and especially father christmas WAS what being a child is all about!! I was 13 when i went up to my mum and said 'Mum please now tell me, is there such thing as father christmas'?? She told me the truth and i was gutted!! But i did have a good incling at that age and i did understand why we were told what we were told when we were kids!! I felt no reservations towards my parents whatsoever when i found out the truth!! The fun for me after that was to see my little sisters get all excited about father christmas visisting the house!! I helped my mum do out the house on xmas eve so as to make it look like santa had indeed arrived!! That was just as special to me at that time in my life as actually beleiving in father christmas myself!!