Photo by Ian Berry/Magnum By Shayla Love is a science journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. A former staff writer at Psyche, her journalism has appeared in Vice, The New York Times and Wired, among others. Exactly when and how children discover they’ve been duped makes an important difference to the revelatory experience Towards the end of every year, many parents find themselves fielding difficult questions, such as: how does a man fly across the entire world in a single night to deliver presents? How does he fit down a chimney? Does he really eat cookies at every house? Children start to distinguish fantasy from reality around … Continue reading At what point does the Santa myth become a harmful deception?