{"id":9502,"date":"2016-12-24T22:23:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T06:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=9502"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:24:33","slug":"santa-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2016\/12\/24\/santa-revelations\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We knew this day would come. We didn&#8217;t think it would be Christmas Eve. Bean began articulating suspicions a year ago. This year her friend in class has been arguing for weeks that Santa isn&#8217;t real. So, she began asking pointed questions. But she would ask the question and immediately follow with a rationale for why it couldn&#8217;t be us, before I could answer. Knowing it was coming, I cribbed this letter from someone else. Today she told her dad, &#8220;Please tell me, I really have to know.&#8221; So the letter was given, and we talked after. There can be a relief in knowing, even though there is sadness. (Possibly more for me than her!) Bean took it all in stride, with a maturity that I see evolving.<\/p>\n<p>However, she says she still believes in the Easter Bunny (because she has the proof of a letter from him) and Tooth Fairy (because what parent would want to handle a bloody tooth, and keep them?), and that dragons are real.<\/p>\n<p>Baby steps.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/31914673135\/in\/dateposted-friend\/\" title=\"santa revelations\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/1\/467\/31914673135_e5b24fd97b_z.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" alt=\"santa revelations\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Sources:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/16\/no-longer-believing-in-santa\/?_r=0\">No Longer Believing in Santa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/herviewfromhome.com\/mom-tells-son-the-true-meaning-of-santa-this-is-what-we-should-all-share\/\">Mom Tells Son the Meaning of Santa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We knew this day would come. We didn&#8217;t think it would be Christmas Eve. Bean began articulating suspicions a year ago. This year her friend in class has been arguing for weeks that Santa isn&#8217;t real. So, she began asking pointed questions. But she would ask the question and immediately follow with a rationale for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-spirit"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13469,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions\/13469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}