'I told my 5yo son the truth about Santa. Then I got a message from his school'

"I’m not into ‘secrets’ and unfortunately he doesn’t have the nuance to keep up the act for others." 

This Aussie mum better watch out - she’s on the teacher’s naughty list.

Jaz Landgren broke the unspoken rule between all parents at this time of year and told her 5-year-old son Santa’s most safely guarded secret. 

He’s not real. 

But Jaz insists she's far from a Grinch - she says she had no choice. 

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"He felt really unsafe"

Like many kids, her son was terrified at the prospect of a bearded stranger breaking into the house.

“People kept saying to him 'is Santa going to come into your house?' and it really scared him,” she explained in a now viral TikTok. 

“He felt really unsafe.”

She was left with little choice but to provide whatever reassurance she could. 

“Of course I told him, 'no, it’s okay all the presents are from me and dad,'” she explained.

“I have been as honest as I possibly can about what the tradition of Christmas and Christmas magic is about.” 

However, it's proving a headache for his kindergarten teachers, with the 5-year-old spilling some serious Christmas tea on the playground. 

“He is telling people he knows it’s not real because mum told me so,” Jaz said. 

“We received a message from the school saying he is ruining Christmas for his peers.” 

“I kind of thought that was the role of the school to say 'hey, everyone's family is different.'”

Image: TikTok

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"Not in the wrong"

While Jaz insists she’s done nothing wrong - all she did was tell the truth - opinions in her comment section were mixed.

While some supported the mum, others believed she should have been more careful. 

“It would have been helpful when you told him that his friends at school don’t know the secret,” One person wrote.

“Different people believe different things so it's not our job to tell them what is or isn't real,” said another.

Surely asking a 5-year-old to keep a secret so juicy isn’t realistic.  

“We absolutely told him some friends believe differently - but I’m not into ‘secrets’ and unfortunately he doesn’t have the nuance to keep up the act for others,” she said.

She suggests that the promotion of Santa can tread into murky waters. 

“It’s not really the thing we’re promoting at the moment right? Gifts from strangers. Only be good if you want to get gifts. I don’t like any of that type of language,” she said. 

Originally published as 'I told my 5yo son the truth about Santa. Then I got a message from his school'