Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Santa deception: how did it affect you? - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Desrtopa 20 December 2010 10:27PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 December 2010 01:43:33AM 3 points [-]

I found a page stuffed into a drawer that had been ripped out of a book--it explained how to tell your kids that Santa wasn't real.

Shades of what happened when I found the secret hidden volume of my beloved Childcraft set, the "Guide to Parents"! Only in my case, that's how I found out what teenagers were supposed to be like and that's when I decided never to go there.

Comment author: Desrtopa 21 December 2010 06:29:41PM 1 point [-]

I read similar books when I was a kid, but my parents never tried to keep them secret from me. I don't think they ever saw my reading about parenting or child development as something to be worried about, and they were aware of my commitment never to go through all the troubles of a typical teenager. Unsurprisingly, I found my own ways to be difficult.