To tell him or not to tell him the truth?

[Sickbag]

So... any advice?

Tell your son he's Jewish.

He's not circumcised.

Well, that's this year's Xmas present sorted then!

[PurduePilot]

How did you get into my computer???

Is he still losing teeth at that age?

At which age do you think children loose their teeth?

Whenever they get old enough to throw them at people?

[Peter_K]

Does he still believe in storks bringing in the babies or did his older friends at school already managed to educate him in this matter?

[schmusimausi73]

Does he still believe in storks bringing in the babies or did his older friends at school already managed to educate him in this matter?

Well, actually, I educated him myself about the facts of life and he knows exactly how babies are made and how they're born. There were never storks or other mythical creatures involved.

[Verbal]

You can explain to him that Santa Claus isn't a person so much as he is the spirit of giving that we have in all of us, and that you and Gerry are Santa's helpers. Maybe then he'll understand why he gets a big wrapped salami under the Christmas tree every year.

[Sickbag]

Well, actually, I educated him myself about the facts of life and he knows exactly how babies are made and how they're born. There were never storks or other mythical creatures involved.

Just a magical cupboard!

[schmusimausi73]

Well, actually, I educated him myself about the facts of life and he knows exactly how babies are made and how they're born. There were never storks or other mythical creatures involved.

Just a magical cupboard!

Is this where it happens in the Sickbag family?

[OldSowBreath]

I realised there was no Santa when I saw him topping our neighbor's wife. Though of tender years, I thought a man who can afford that many presents could surely do better than that sack of bones.

[schmusimausi73]

I realised there was no Santa when I saw him topping our neighbor's wife. Though of tender years, I thought a man who can afford that many presents could surely do better than that sack of bones.

Ouch!

[PurduePilot]

You can explain to him that Santa Claus isn't a person so much as he is the spirit of giving that we have in all of us, and that you and Gerry are Santa's helpers. Maybe then he'll understand why he gets a big wrapped salami under the Christmas tree every year.

Who actually wraps their salami before they put it under the tree?

[DeskFlyer]

Who actually wraps their salami before they put it under the tree?

Euphemism?

[ZeroAltitude]

I have always admired how our daughters (all three of them in their time) have managed to accept the facts of life and at the same time carrying on believing for several years.
Example: Although there are a lot of lamps in and around our house that work automatically all year round (time switches, light sensors, movement sensors), and they know how to tweak the sensors, they all believed that when the christmas lights in the garden went on at 4:00 p.m. sharp each day during the season, that that was a sign that Santa had just flown by.

Katie, no need for a confrontation with the hard facts - he'll learn sooner or later by himself. Let him have those sweet illusions, it's going to be a part of becoming a valuable person.

[Peter_K]

(...) I thought a man who can afford that many presents could surely do better than that sack of bones.

No wonder you grew up to be a lawyer...