At What Age Does Lying About Santa Claus Become Unacceptable?

Ah Santa Claus: that fat jolly ol’ fellow that doesn’t exist unless you count the bearded fat dudes that come out of the woodwork every year to work the local malls.

He is magical and there is nothing like seeing your kids that don’t know any better, talk about him. But eventually someone will blow the whistle on this scam and they will ruin your kids’ yuletide innocence.

If your kids are young when they find out, there is the temptation to outright lie to them. To drag the spoiler’s name through the mud. To discredit what little credibility a 7 year old can build up.

Just because your kids know the truth it does not mean that they still can’t get presents in their stockings. Which brings us to this question:

At What Age Does Lying About Santa Claus Become Unacceptable?

This is the latest installment in our Master Debaters Question of the Week Series. There are some topics that seem to fall into the consensus category: drunk driving is bad, guns kill people, Transformers are better than GoBots. But that only covers less than 1% of the decisions you and your spouse make towards the upbringing of your kids. The majority of issues tend to fall more in the gray area.

Here at Noodad.com, we take pride in delivering important advice for dads. But we realize that some of our advice is subjective. The collected readership surely has things to add and unique perspectives to contribute.

So where do you weigh in?