I need to know stats on how many people tell their kids the easter bunny is a real thing like Santa

I buy the eggs. Mini blondes knows this and obv Father Christmas does the stocking and small pressie. Rest comes from me

I tell my 4 year old it's real. However, just the other day he told me that the Easter Bunny isn't alive and the chocolate eggs come from shops, so he doesn't necessarily believe me, already!
I believed as a child and it made Easter more magical, just like Christmas, but i won't force it if he's worked it out.

Same as @BewareoftheLambswe make a mix bigger deal of Santa but Easter… I did a little hunt around the house and the kids got an egg and book each. They are 3 and 6. Enjoyed the hunt had half an egg for breakfast. They know the story of Jesus (but then we do beavers so they have also learn there) job done.

Think this is just an Americanism than never really took off over here. I don’t remember my mum ever once mentioning it when we were younger, we just got chocolate eggs on the day. I do a garden egg hunt with mine and say the Easter bunny left those ones. Don’t really make a big exciting song and dance over Easter in the way I do Christmas though.

I don’t tell my DC it’s real, anymore than I tell him Santa is real, it’s just a bit of fun and he likes to pretend. He also doesn’t think fairies, monsters and superheroes are real, it’s called imagination.

Makes 2 of us.

Santa/Father Christmas has always been a figure based on St Nicholas in our house as he's the saint of our parish church.

The Easter Bunny has never been mentioned.

I have never mentioned it before, however I just posted on another thread because my son started school last September and he is convinced that Easter is like Christmas and has been talking non stop about the Easter bunny. I had been completely avoiding the conversation until yesterday when I was trying to concentrate on drilling something (new to DIY) and my son asked me about 10 times in 2 minutes where the Easter bunny lives. For some reason, in frustration to get him to change the subject, I decided to point at the manhole cover on my drive so he now thinks she’s lives in the drains and if he flushes the toilet she will drown.

Made it 100 times worse for myself.

No I don’t tell my kids the Easter bunny is real, it would be insulting their intelligence for a start! Kids don’t have to believe in nonsense to be excited…just give them an Easter egg. Or an egg hunt with no “bunny”. I think it’s a great time to learn about spring and all the birds and animals that start appearing. But then I’m not religious.

I never mentioned the Easter bunny to my DC, it was something I had never even heard of when I was a child, I had easter eggs given to me by parents and grandparents.
My DC came home from primary school talking about the easter bunny, I was a bit annoyed as I didn't want them to believe it. I don't think they ever really did, we had an egg hunt in the garden but me and my dad hid the eggs.
I was happy to go along with santa.

I’ve voted that I do tell DD it’s real - but it’s really more this.

I was aware of the bunny as a general concept when I was a child but we didn’t have egg hunts and I don’t think I was led to believe the bunny delivered the eggs I received - so long ago I can’t remember. DH did have the bunny and the hunt in the garden he says.

We have done a hunt for DD the past few years and maybe a few jokey references to ‘the bunny’ but I didn’t really go OTT with it. This year she’s absolutely convinced herself that it’s all real and the excitement levels going to bed last night were almost, but not quite, Christmas Eve worthy.

I’ve run with it as she’s enjoying it all so much. She’s 5 and this feels like we’re at the peak of believing in magical stuff - fairies in the garden she writes notes to, tells me often that she definitely believes in mermaids and thinks she saw one once etc. So she can have the bunny for a year or two, and I did make it as if the bunny had hidden the eggs. But I’ve not gone to town trying to make it believable - she saw me buying some of them, the clues were on paper notes she already owns and pretty obviously in my hand writing, it’s fairly evident it’s a game and if she asked I’d just tell her - whereas I’m more inclined to keep Father Christmas as believable as possible for as long as possible.

We used to have Easter hunts in my grandparents’ garden, over 50 years ago. I can’t remember whether the bunny was given credit though.

If I tried to convince my kids there was a real Easter Bunny they'd definitely have started questioning Father Christmas a lot earlier.

Easter Bunny is a very weak myth so i don't care about it and have never told my kids it's a real thing. I wanted to keep the one true Santa real for as long as possible!

In reality they absolutely love that DH does a special Easter egg hunt for them. They know we've bought them all the eggs and made a game of it and they are very sweet and appreciative of it.

Yet the school rector is a member of an organisation that has perpetuated a myth for over two thousand years.
😉😁.

We always did easter egg hunts when DD (14 now) was little, but we never mentioned the Easter bunny once! And she never asked about it. I don't think I ever heard anything about the bunny at all back then, from other people or school or whatever

I never overdid Father Christmas or the tooth fairy either and confirmed they weren't real as soon as she asked - aged 7

It's just a bit of fun for the kiddies. Why spoil the magic?
Children are little for only a short time. Let them enjoy it while they can

Not necessarily. They were always real in my house but there are plenty of ways to keep it fun and “magical” even if you go the evidence route.

I don’t think the Easter bunny is a new concept. I remember people talking about the Easter bunny when I was young, even though my mum didn’t hide eggs.

For DC, they had the Easter bunny visit nursery! But I hid the eggs last year. They’ve said they want the eggs hiding this year and definitely believe in the bunny. We’ve not reached tooth fairy age yet but they already talk about it. My dad gave them an egg and they picked and egg from us. So I’ve separated it out into eggs from other people and Easter bunny eggs. She can find the small Easter bunny eggs bug the others are on the side. Which is the same approach we take with Santa, Santa bring one or two presents and the rest are from other people.

I wasn’t hiding them at midnight or going out in the storm to hide them. They’ll just have to find them round the house. I probably put a bit more effort into believing in Santa as we do the mince pie and the carrot.

It definitely wasn't real when I was a child (born in 81). We would get given an egg by our parents, one by grandparents etc, and if we were up with family we would have an Easter egg hunt with our cousins in the garden. But I'd not heard of the Easter bunny.

Me too. The Easter Bunny was definitely real during my childhood (and I have my own children now...).

I think the "import" is the additional "stuff". It used to be just eggs (and maybe a few fluffy chicks to stick on a cake). Now it's cuddly toys, lots of plastic tat, decorations, etc. plus chocolate...

All these mythical beings are real though, they just happen to be dh and I

My parents are rather conservative (small c) church goers (e.g. they've always been very clear that it's "Mothering Sunday", not "mother's day" and "father's day is secular nonsense" therefore my father asks us not to celebrate it, etc.).

However, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and Father Christmas existed throughout my childhood (and beyond). There will be an egg hunt in my parents garden later (and there would be even if there were no grandchildren present) 😁

I’ve read a lot online lately that people think it’s a new thing or an American import but 30 years ago as I child I definitely believed the Easter bunny brought me eggs and all of my friends did as well.

We do the Easter bunny although it’s not as big as Santa. We don’t hide the eggs. They are just there in the morning and we don’t have any rituals or Easter bunny lore. If asked eg how the bunny got in I am very non-committal and unsure.

I think it’s just a fun thing like Santa and the tooth fairy. I struggle to understand how so many people are fine with those two but the Easter bunny is too much. To me, if I am happy with the other magical characters, why not let the bunny be the one to bring the eggs?

We never made a big thing about the Easter bunny bringing the eggs, more just a symbol of Easter.

One of my friends made bunny footprints using flour all through her house was a bit bonkers to me.