Bitter, angry, and disillusioned children are properly prepared for adulthood, which is a long series of crushing disappointments.
"Bitter, angry, and disillusioned children are properly prepared for adulthood, which is a long series of crushing disappointments."
Here here.
ROTFL. You made my night with that one.
Bitter, angry and disillusioned children?
What planet are you from.
In our house Santa is subservient to the Nativity, but he has a place. And when the children have each discovered in time...at about age 10 or 11, that Santa does not exist, they have crossed another bridge to adulthood. They immediatly try to shield their smaller siblings from this "adult" knowledge.
Chilldren have so few rites of passage in this culture peopled by the perpetual children in adult bodies. Let them have benchmarks.