childish illusions?

When I was a little girl I use to believe all the little stars in the sky were angels looking down on us, keeping watch. Shooting stars were our guardian angels falling from heaven to scoop us up and protect us. As I began to drift from child, to teen, to adult I have noticed my failing ability to believe in the extraordinary. The tooth fairy and Santa were the first to go, with them went small childish hopes that made life just a bit more sweeter. Eventually its time for children to grow up and I get it. People grow up and learn that these illusions weren't created to distort and confuse reality but to help children understand things that they arent mature enough to comprehend. For example, when parents tell their children that when they met their spouse it was love at first sight, they dont really mean that exactly. Love as we all know, is more complicated than that. Sure you can start falling for someone on the first date but it's not the same as being in full-fledged, head over heals love with them (that would be lust). Children, I believe, have an inability to truely hate someone let alone not care about people they meet. This is why it's so easy for them to make friends. They arent prejudice or tainted with petty biases therefore they wouldn't really be able to understand that true unconditional love (that doesnt come from a relative) takes more than first sight to fall in love. To me, taking away these small illusions impairs a child from learning or fully understanding some of lifes concepts, lessons, or morals.