Science says children are learning important lessons and helping their brain development by believing in Santa.
Additionally, with the increasing use of technology among younger and younger children, parents are finding they have to deal with some form of the question much earlier than they might have planned.
She said they can actually measure the pleasure centres of a child’s brain “lighting up” when discussing Santa and Christmas, with children looking forward to Christmas day providing hits of “anticipatory dopamine” which were not lessened by the day itself.“They’re happy and busy, unwrapping and processing, anticipating the rest of the day,” she said.
And even aside from heady notions of universal morality, being able to lie is actually an incredibly complex skill that children need to learn.
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