To think this is a really weird thing to do with presents?

Blimey, doesn't everyone know there's a pressie or 2 from Santa? The other gifts are from you/family/friends. And the stockings are filled by Santa.

My kids are too old for Father Christmas now but they never had presents from him he was only ever a postman for us (the same for me growing up) they didn’t even have a stocking.
They always said thank you to the person they’d received a gift from as well - not letters though.

They can teach them that literally any other time the kids get anything - birthday, Easter, random gifts, buying an ice cream, anything.

It's Christmas and they'll only be doing Santa for a few years anyway. I just wish people would lighten up and let families do Christmas how they want FFS.

And your way is better?

My BIL and SIL do this too. In our house all the gifts from DH and I are from Santa but things from wider family are acknowledged and the givers are thanked.

This is the first year that our kids are all old enough to potentially discuss this, so I hope my niece doesn’t wonder why grandparents bought my kids presents and not her!

Father Christmas (was never Santa) delivering all the presents is also nuts. I never realised so many people did this. We must have freaked out some other parents with all our presents under the tree.

Do you think it is regional? I think our closest friends do the same as us (stocking/sack only from FC).

I think it's pretty cheeky to be honest. If i wanted the gifts I'd bought to be "from santa" I'd have labelled them that way myself. I especially don't like it when parents only do this with gifts from others, so their kids think the only ones who love them enough to buy them presents are the parents, and everything else is santa....

in your presents you have written in sharpie to her kids gifts?
you are being obstructive to her methods
why is your way better?
yabu
you do whats right for your family and she prefers her way

I remember asking my parents why Sarah Lucy got a present from Santa (a Sindy house) and Santa himself never got me anything (he was the delivery guy only in my house), she didn’t know what to say.

Very odd. When I was growing up, I was told that Santa was merely the delivery guy, my parents paid for the presents and sent them off to Santa. So I just did the same for my kids. The presents off my friends are from my friends. I was surprised when my friend wanted to hide the gifts I had for her kids on christmas eve as assume she was making out Santa gave them, but I never did, they were just a gift from my friends.

In our house he's more like DHL as he also collects presents from Granny's house abroad and delivers them for her.

The Santa thing is weird. I did it with DC's but with stuff I bought. Gifts from other people had their labels kept on.
Myself and DS were having a giggle a couple of days ago about the carrots and mince pies we'd leave for Santa and the reindeers.
It was like "who did you think you were kidding" and it was an in joke at primary school and they simply played along.
DS is now 29. I bet if he has DC's he'll do it too though.
It's innocent Christmas stuff. yawn go through the motions 🎅🎅🎅🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄

I'm so glad that DH and I had the same tradition growing up. Father Christmas fills up a sack at the end of your bed. Presents from family and friends are under the tree before Christmas day.

We both think anything else is just plain wrong!😅

One of my nephews once came home from school really upset because all his friends got presents from their parents and he didn't get any from his (because they all came from Santa).

I remember my late MIL frowning at me when DD was opening presents when she was about three years old and I was saying "this is from auntie Mary and this is from Fred". MIL thought that all presents had to come from Santa. I told her that Santa only brought the stocking.

She's being really rude. The gift is from you, it's not up to her to decide how it's given and not even make the child aware that it's from you.

If she wants to create Santa magic that's up to her to do and fund.

It's also really stupid. Unless the child is too young to understand and talk about it with their friends it's likely their child will get upset when their friends say they got x from their nan and y from their aunt when they got nothing from anyone except Santa and they realise that everyone else gets gifts from all their family. They're going to feel that their family/friends don't care.

I had some family members that did something similar to this, and I'd no idea that it pissed off the other adults as much as it did me until one Christmas we were there and one of the DC was talking about the gifts they'd got from Santa, and turned to her Aunt and said, "Did you get me a present Auntie Sue?"

And Auntie Sue said, "Yes, it's that art set over there - do you like it? It must have got mixed up with your presents from Santa!". Then her Grandmother piped up, "Oh, I think that may have happened to my present too - it's that one over there!"

The parents were fuming but it was of the own doing... and it wasn't like anyone told the child Santa didn't exist, just that actual people were thoughtful enough to buy them presents as well.

Why the lol at thank you letters? They're good manners! And how else are kids meant to learn how to put together a letter?

Haha that is strange!
I've told everyone to put their name on their gifts for the kids.
I've explained to people that I don't want my kids growing up thinking Santa got them anything "big" and his gifts tend to be smaller little things.
I just remember being poor as a child, I knew we were poor, I knew my mum could afford less than most people's parents, because we had less and I had lots of siblings. I understood from a very early age that what my mum could provide was different. For the few years after that, where I still believed in Santa, I couldn't understand why those same children were given better stuff by Santa too. It felt so unfair that they had nicer stuff anyway, but Santa seemed to think these kids were worth having better stuff too. I really struggled with those feelings and now being fairly financially secure my kids can have pretty much whatever they like but I'd hate other children to feel a way that I genuinely felt for a few years.
I think this was one of the first feelings that I was worth less than other people.

My youngest ones are too small to understand this concept, but they'll never be sat at school telling kids Santa brought them something that wouldn't be pretty easily attainable for most people.

All presents under the tree were from Santa when I was kid (abroad - we don't have stockings anyway), and that's what we are doing for our kids now. They're still young now and they'll grow of it by the time quickly enough anyway.

No way we force them to write thank you letters lol, we thank family on their behalf with a photo, and when they'll be old enough then can send them a text.

Given the responses here about "getting the credit" etc, I'm glad we do that now. Gift giving at Christmas is not a competition to fill the sender's ego.

That's crazy - I've never heard the like! I would see the DC in person and give them the gift myself! I don't know how the parents can accept the gifts when the child won't even know the gift came from the person who kindly bothered to buy it, wrap it, and get it there on time. What a pair of CFs! Do we really worship children so much these days that we practice such appalling manners, just so they think every gift is from Santa? Jesus wept. Does Santa have to have bought every gift in the house? The only possible excuse for this is that the parents are really short of money and can't afford to buy from-Santa gifts as well as gifts from them. Or do the kids think that their parents buy them nothing? Oh, this is wrong on so many levels!

Agree with this.
There is no way my parents would have let santa take all the credit for their saving, researching, knowing their own child to by the gift they love.

Santa does stockings with help, and the dc know who gave what, have to write/ enail or say thank you.

You could always say ' I hear Santa bought you a xxx, did you like it? Dc probably know Santa doesn't exist anyway, from school and everything else!

But they must do as they please. If it were ne, I would re wrap it, hand it over directly and say with a wink ' looks like Santa forgot this one'

We did a mix of things with DS.
It's mostly presents from me and DH that we're from Santa. And those were some of my favourite moments! And DS loved it too. And of course he is not traumatised or ungrateful as a result 🙄

We used to involve one of the neighbours or DH would pretend to be on the loo and then sneak out to ring the door bell in a Santa outfit - DS would open the door to a sack of presents and Santa retreating in the distance. Those were the days! Easily impressed they are when little 😊

We do everything from us - stocking and either 1 big or 2-3 medium main ones under the tree - is from Father Christmas. Everything from family is from whoever gave it and they are thanked. Dd also usually chooses to write FC a thank you letter.
I think giving all family gifts from FC is slightly unusual, but I have heard of people doing it. As long as when they are older they start to say thank you etc I don't think it would bother me too much. We all do things differently.

I can’t believe people do this!! When do these children learn to appreciate generosity and thank people? Why do all these other people buy their kids presents knowing it’s going to be from Santa?

It's incredibly rude to people who buy presents.