Ever known what if feels like to crush a 9 year olds dreams? Let me give you a small glimpse.
The other day when I (A.K.A The Dream crusher Sonja) was outside cleaning my car out.
Maddy came home from school, and as we talked about her day, she looks me straight in the eye, and with her head tilted, hands on her hips, and squinted eyes, she say's "Mom, I have a question!" AND..... "I want you to tell me the TRUTH!
By this point, I can feel my upper lip sweating.
As I say ok, having no idea what I'm getting myself into, she say's these four daunting words that every child say's at around the age of 8-10. "Is santa clause real?"
As I stall for time, so I can think of a response, I say..." What?"
Her reply, "I said...Is santa clause real? and I don't mean saint nick!"
I continue to stall for more thinking time, and ask.... "why do you ask?"
She replies with "because all of my friends tell me it's your parents."
By this point, I can feel the sweat dripping down the middle of my back, and good heavens people, it's November, not August.
I turn to her completely intending to LIE....I mean seriously, If i had it my way they would believe till the age of 16. But instead these words come out.
"No Maddy! Santa Clause is not real."
To make matters worse, she looks at me and say's "Oh mom, why did you have to tell me that? Why can't we believe forever?"
As I try and soothe her, I respond with " C'mon maddy, really?, every child gets to that point in their life, when they realize it's impossible that there's a great big bunny, hopping around the world delivering easter eggs.
With a huge gasp, she say's "WHAT? the Easter bunny isn't real either?"
"No!"
is all I have to say.......
she throws herself down on the grass, and buries her head in her arms face down.
Now what do I say?????
After about 5 minutes of silence, she looks up at me and say's "AND THE TOOTHFAIRY?"
"No!"
So there you have it in a nutshell.........
From the master dream crusher sonja.
Take my advice when I say, go against every thing you've been taught about being honest, and LIE, LIE, LIE.
3 comments:
I think I just peed a little I'm laughing so hard....
Stay away from my kids, will ya?
Oh Sun!!! I am so sorry! My kids ask every other day if Santa is real. I just tell them if they don't believe in the magic of Christmas then they won't get any presents.
It's the darn kids at school that ruin there precious little dreams.
Thanks for the advice, I will keep lying to my kids.
I don't know how much longer my kids will believe. Billy said he would take all the shopping bags from black friday out of the car, but when the kids got in, they were still there. I yelled "get upstairs, those are for the poor kids!"
So funny!! And so sad all at the same time.
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