When my son Zac was 8 he said something like "I know Santa isn't real". I wasn't comfortable with the whole Christmas thing. So I sAid "Yes, you are right.". Zac threw himself on his bed and cries inconsolably for 2 hrs. I regard this as about one of my worst parenting faux pas. Zac begged me not to tell his siblings til they were 11
If I had my time again I would have handled things very differently on many levels