‘Our daughter is the only one in the class who believes in Sinterklaas’

When you live abroad or your little one insists on knowing the truth, it turns out to be quite difficult to keep up the illusion of Sinterklaas.

Karin (43): “We live in New Zealand, where it is especially impractical to keep the secret. Our daughter is the only one in the class who believes – or rather, the class believes it now because we told them about it. But they are more of Santa Claus.

Impossible

Furthermore, the carrots cannot be eaten here, and knocking on the door unseen and running away on Boxing Day is not possible, because it is still light here in the evening. Last year she already saw her father at the door. And then all those gifts that grandpas and grandmas send and that we have to lie about as soon as the children see them coming in…

‘Packpiet certainly wasn’t paying attention’, we say again, when after unpacking it turns out that family members have accidentally bought the same thing. It is lying squared for us.”

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Nice and firm

Daphne (44): “’Mama, tell me honestly, Sinterklaas doesn’t exist, does it?’ My seven-year-old son completely surprised me on a Wednesday morning with his question. I choked, tried to bend some more, but he stuck to what he’d heard. “Just tell the truth,” he concluded. So confident. I had to.”

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