What are you telling your children about Father Christmas?

‘If you want to perpetuate the idea that all the presents beneath the tree were brought by Father Christmas, you are free to do so. Enjoy it. Your children may go along with it, or not, though if they decide he isn’t real it begs the question, will there still be presents next year?’ says Jenny Sanders.

For me, waking up in the early hours of Christmas Day, feeling the weight of a goodie-filled stocking and hearing the satisfying crackle of the contents, always fed into the grand anticipation of a magical childhood Christmas ahead.  I could go back to sleep safe in the knowledge that Father Christmas had been.

I don’t remember feeling devastated when the truth of who bought those presents was discovered.