re: #33 Mark Winter

Fourth graders? Aren’t they 10? Who believes in Santa at this age?

Nine or ten. I don’t know. My sixth graders were polling one another today to find out who believes in Santa. I think I was six or so when my mom explained he was ‘just pretend’. She told me this evening that my father was furious about that, because you’re supposed to say that Santa is ‘magic’. Thirty years after the fact, she wanted to make sure I wasn’t traumatized.