Do people stop believing in the tooth fairy/Santa clause/Easter bunny once they turn 8years old and start?

Question

believing in God

Answer 1

My son is 9 and still kinda believes in santa ect.....

But he strongly beleives in God and its not like my family are church goers

I think its just a individual choice and theirs no harm in beliving in someting even if it is fiction.

Answer 2

I don't think that there is a certain age that a child should stop believing - they are all different and at different levels of maturity so will think and believe different things. It also depends on their surroundings. What their parents say to them and what they hear at school.

Answer 3

Careful son you are skating on thin ice !

Answer 4

No , I was 18 but then I did live a very sheltered life. Still, I  am quite sure there is an Easter bunny.

Answer 5

One has nothing to do with the other.  Kids much younger than 8 believe in GOD and all of those other things.

Answer 6

your kids can stop believing in those figures at a variety of ages but it doesn't mean they didn't believe in god through out that period when they believed in other figures. in fact it is the best time to teach your children to believe in god when they are younger and are more likely to be open to religion and god. also it really depends on you too. If you have taught them well and been a good role model then there is a higher chance that they will fallow your example and worship in the ways that you do but if you wait until they are 8 or older to teach them the way of god then that would leave allot for them to question. so.... not necessarily but it might be  the case that they may be even more open to god but only if you have instilled that belief in them up to that point,

Answer 7

a lot of naive adults believed in Reagan, Thatcher and the Bushes.  It is just as bad as believing in fairies.

Answer 8

Every child is different. I never truly believed in Santa or the Easter Bunny but I've always believed in God. My oldest is 7 and truly believes in all of that. The transition will be interesting.

Answer 9

I believed in none of those things after I was 5 and my parents told me the truth about the first three. I gave up on God because I never got the bike I wanted... haha. Since then I thought about it properly but I still don't see how He/She/It can exist. So...

Answer 10

It depends on the person and the family.  Our children have never believed in the tooth fairy or santa.

Answer 11

I am 73 and still believe in all of them except god who is a figment of grown ups imagination and is therefore fictitious

Answer 12

I stopped believing tooth fairy at 8 and santa/bunny. I am a non-christian.

Answer 13

every child is different.  it depends on when the parents tell them the truth about these characters.  they probably don't believe much in God unless their parents or someone teaches them about God.

Answer 14

Eight does seem to be a common age at which kids start guessing the truth about Santa and company.   If they don't hear it from each other in school, they hear it from older siblings.   My two older kids were in third grade when they started to question these things.

But God is not a "substitute" belief for Santa and the others.  My kids have been taught about God since they were very little, and we've been going to church since they were born.  They all continue to believe in God, even after they've ceased to believe in the Easter Bunny and all the others.

Answer 15

how many children know the concept of God at that age.

Answer 16

No . Unless you encourage them  . My dad helped me do that ( I'm 7 ) . I mean who gives us the presents in Christmas ? And the money for a tooth ? It's true !

Answer 17

My son is having his first communion in June and we've been preparing him for this along with his school (we are all catholics) and he still believes in all of the above .

Answer 18

well.....................

Answer 19

It all depends on the person and the family that they come from my parents told me from the start that Santa was not for real and that Christmas was a bout Jesus and I was fine with it. I think its wrong to lie to a kid about something that  is made up anyway

Answer 20

It's all inherited. What would you believe in if nobody told you what to believe in?

Answer 21

No, they don't stop believing at a certain age.  They stop believing when someone tells them the truth about it, which usually happens in school.