Too many to count. You can divide them pretty clearly into groups. 0-9-month-old kids are too young to really know what’s going on and just tend to sit there like a stunned mullet. But from about 10 months to two years old you can forget it. I’d say two thirds of this group cries and refuses to come up. Some of them can be encouraged to get a photo if their parents sit with them. From about two-to-four years old they’re a bit better, but a lot still cry. From about five-to-seven years old they are generally just in love with Santa, and my least favorite age are the seven-to-ten-year-olds who still believe in Santa but are developing a sense of skepticism. I see them looking at me with doubt and it is really annoying.

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