I’m a mum & have told my five-year-old son the truth about Santa – I want to get credit for the presents
WHETHER or not parents should tell their children the truth about Father Christmas has been a lifelong debate amongst many.
But one mum, known as Strawberry Hayes (@churchofstrawberry), already knows her position – she’s admitted she doesn’t “do Santa” in her house.
This, she explained in a video posted on TikTok, is because she’d rather he knew the truth earlier and was aware where the gifts come from.
“As a mum, I don’t do Santa. I think it’s bulls**t.
“One, I want to get credit for the presents. Two, I don’t want Jasper thinking Santa’s some classist scum.
”What, the rich kids get better presents? No! The parents are buying them.
“And three, I don’t want to deal with the heartbreak of him finding out Santa isn’t real at a later date because I’ve just lied to him his whole life.
”Christmas will always be magical for him, because he’s never had any bulls**t surrounding the event.”
However, she went on to reveal, the decision to be honest about Santa didn’t go to plan – according to her, the son then told the story to his peers at school.
“I’m quite factual with him, so I told him that Santa was actually based on Saint Nicholas, who lived hundreds of years ago, and he was like ‘Okay, so he got too old and died?’.
”I said, ‘Yeah, essentially, but he was really great guy and he gave presents to people. The moral of the story is sharing.”
The mum chuckled: “This little f***er keeps telling all the kids that Santa’s dead.
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”I’m so sorry if your kid goes to school with my kid.”
Social media users flocked to comments, where they praised Strawberry for not hiding the fact from her son.
”Parenting done right,” thought one fan.
Another penned: “It’s so nice seeing another mum who doesn’t do Santa, it’s always a good day either way.
”My kids enjoy themselves and I definitely want them to know [the truth].”
“I think this is a really down-to-earth approach to have. It doesn’t spoil the magic, it’s realistic,” someone else added.
”If you can’t afford a bike, your kids know why.”
Hearing Strawberry’s opinion, others also shared how things happen in their household – a viewer told their kid that they’re the ones to buy the presents, whilst Santa is responsible for delivering them on time.
“I said he’s a delivery man like the DPD driver, I order and pay,” a social media user revealed.
As someone else said: “We tell our kids that mummy and daddy buy the presents and Santa delivers them like an Amazon man with magic.”