I was an opposite. I believed that everything I hear from my parents and which I do not see in my vicinity is fairy tale. Talking animals, red hat girl and wolf, wars, African animals and so on. When I was 5, I was taken to zoo. I was very surprised that elephants really exist.
I do not lie to my children. At every story I explain if it can be true. They hear somewhere else about Santa Claus and I just keep silent about him