Well, my brother is 44 and I'm *pretty* sure he's no longer terrified of Santa. But seriously, Santa was a HUGE fear of his all the way through his childhood years (probably until he learned the truth about Santa, ca. age 8.)
Dd is 4 1/2 and told me when we were getting in the car to go see our local tree lighting (where Santa was going to make an appearance), that "last year I was scared to sit on Santa's lap, but this year, now that I'm 4, I'm not scared any more."
Right. She did want to see Santa, but she didn't want to get more than about 4 feet away from him before she stopped. I think she may have said "hi".
I don't have any pictures of my kids with Santa and I don't miss them. Maybe I'm jaded because I'm too cheap to buy the commercial ones and that was never a family tradition for us (my parents couldn't afford the commercial ones with Santa, dh's parents couldn't so it really wasn't part of our traditions.)
Dd is 4 1/2 and told me when we were getting in the car to go see our local tree lighting (where Santa was going to make an appearance), that "last year I was scared to sit on Santa's lap, but this year, now that I'm 4, I'm not scared any more."
Right. She did want to see Santa, but she didn't want to get more than about 4 feet away from him before she stopped. I think she may have said "hi".
I don't have any pictures of my kids with Santa and I don't miss them. Maybe I'm jaded because I'm too cheap to buy the commercial ones and that was never a family tradition for us (my parents couldn't afford the commercial ones with Santa, dh's parents couldn't so it really wasn't part of our traditions.)
