W. Bruce Cameron - Lies My Parents Told Me

I was only 15 years old when my father finally told me the truth about Santa Claus. “Son,” he said, “Santa’s sleigh causes a warp in the space-time continuum, which is why he can visit every child’s house in a single night.”

Later, of course, I found out that he was wrong, that it wasn’t the sleigh at all, it was the tiny black hole created by Rudolph’s glowing nose. But was this a deliberate deceit, or was my father merely stating what was then the generally accepted theory? I suspect the former. Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father’s view, to raise a morally uprig...