Do your kids still believe in Santa?

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For those reading this, how old are your kids and do they still believe in Santa?? For me, I stopped believing probably when I was 12. Around the same time that my mom left us for some guy she barely knew and moved to another state with him. Times were tough for me, my sister and my dad but he always made sure we had gifts under the tree. The year I was 12, I remembering opening a gift from "santa" and it was something I saw my dad buying when I was with him. That's when he told me that there really wasn't a santa and he didn't really leave kids presents. He told me that parents who tell their kids about santa do so in order to preserve their innocence and keep them from growing up too fast. For me on the other hand, as soon as my mom left, I became the "mother hen" of the house and had to grow up fast so I could help my dad. So, my question is this? How old were you when you stopped believing in Santa? Why did you stop believing? How old is too old to still believe in Santa?? My 17 year old still believes and she even writes him a letter, leaves cookies, the whole nine yards. In her letter, she wrote that she hopes everyone is happy and healthy and did not ask for anything because as long as her family was happy and healthy and together for christmas, that is all she really wanted. :)