If you believed in Santa when you were little, then when you learned he wasn't real, did you feel like your parents had "lied" to you?

I didn’t. Not at all. I remember slowly coming to the realization on my own that all that magic wasn’t really possible. So one day I said to my folks, “Santa isn’t real, is he.” My dad turned to me, and with sadness shook his head and gently said, “No. He isn’t.” I felt sad, but didn’t fell betrayed at all. I felt like they’d played a game with me, a really fun, magical game, but now it was over and I would really miss it. I also felt a little more grown up, because they said that now I’d get to help them make the magic for my little sisters,and that was almost as good!

I don’t get that concept that people think the kids are actually going to feel like they’ve been “betrayed” and lied to.