“After the umpteenth question about Sinterklaas, I was done with it”
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Sometimes it takes a while for the penny to drop. This also applies to these children who are not entirely sure whether Sinterklaas exists or not.
Annegeer (39): “My children kept asking questions: whether Piet could really always hear everything. And how he always came into our house. Does he have a key? Or is our door always open? They were scared of it, I thought it was sad. Besides, I had always had a hard time lying.
“It scared them, I thought it was sad”
They were four and six years old when they asked for the umpteenth time if Piet really fit through a small window. I was done with it. ‘No he can’t, because Sinterklaas and Piet don’t exist.’ I was very clear about it and they seemed to understand.
Until they asked me if Sinterklaas could go over the roof with that bad weather. But at other times the penny seems to have dropped. When they were talking about their presents, I asked if they knew if I was going to get some too. They looked at me pityingly. ‘What do you mean, you buy it all, don’t you?’”
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“She’s got a lot of money”
Yvon (47): “Johan, a good acquaintance of ours, has been playing Sinterklaas at our house for years. When my eight-year-old daughter heard at school that Sinterklaas did not exist, we sat down with her and explained that it has always been Johan. The message seemed to be getting across well. Until one morning she stood next to our bed and said wisely: ‘That Johan has a lot of money, doesn’t he, that he can buy all those presents.’
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