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TUESDAY, Dec. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Every Christmas season, there's that question parents dread.
"Is Santa Claus real?"
According to experts, beginning at age 5 or 6, children begin to wonder if the Jolly Old Gent with the reindeer isn't quite what he seems.
"They are beginning to ask a lot of questions, they start seeing the inconsistencies -- 'Hey, we don't have a chimney, how does Santa get in here?' or 'the Santa at one department store looks different than the Santa I saw over there,' " said Bruce Henderson, a professor of psychology at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C.
Worse still, some party-pooper sibling or school friend pulls the child aside to whisper, "Santa isn't real."
What to do?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20071225/hl_hsn/parentsfacetoughquestionswhensantasmagicfades
"Is Santa Claus real?"
According to experts, beginning at age 5 or 6, children begin to wonder if the Jolly Old Gent with the reindeer isn't quite what he seems.
"They are beginning to ask a lot of questions, they start seeing the inconsistencies -- 'Hey, we don't have a chimney, how does Santa get in here?' or 'the Santa at one department store looks different than the Santa I saw over there,' " said Bruce Henderson, a professor of psychology at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C.
Worse still, some party-pooper sibling or school friend pulls the child aside to whisper, "Santa isn't real."
What to do?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20071225/hl_hsn/parentsfacetoughquestionswhensantasmagicfades