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

I’ve never suggested either are real, and when they’ve asked me I’ve been honest. I always tell them that a lot of other kids do believe, so they should be polite and not contradict them (same rule we have for other people’s religious beliefs). But I’ve never understood the desire to lie to kids about these magical creatures/people.

Same. We've never really made a thing of it, unlike father Christmas, but my daughter seems to 'know' there's an Easter bunny. Last year we had to have a quick rethink of Easter eggs as to which the bunny delivered her 🤣

Do you not bother with any Easter egg hunts and just hand them over instead?

I never did with DS1, I think DS2 believed it for a year or two age 3-5ish, he must have picked it up at nursery.

We always do an Easter egg hunt in my parents garden, it's fun anyway.

I have such fond memories of the Easter bunny.
First hunting for the eggs, and later, thinking the bunny probably wasn't real and trying to prove it by catching parents in the act of hiding the eggs. So much fun was had.

I will be doing the same for my little one and hope he develops the same fond memories.

I hadn't heard of it as a concept until last year...my youngest is 8 and came home talking about it. I've just said all houses/families are different.

Mine will get a boxed egg from their grandparents, and I'll do an egg hunt in the garden with little ones.

I told my dc's loads of fibs when they were little. Father Christmas, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, that I had eyes in the back of my head etc etc.
Now they are young adults they look back on it all with fond memories.
Those who are so uptight, you realise that the tiger never actually did come to tea don't you? Half the stories for children are also whimsical make- believe that appeal to their imaginations.

Mine are grown now but I don’t think we ever put the words Easter and Bunny together verbally out loud while the were growing up. We just had egg hunts sometimes.
It’s an American thing isn’t it?

I never did the Easter bunny when my children were young. I don't remember it being a thing when I was a child either.
We did do Father Christmas. Never confirmed that he wasn't real, they just grew out of it.

Can't say it was that complicated we mentioned santa or easter bunny brings presents now it is more "santa" with big dramatic finger quotes

We all pretend in santa we move on

It seems only the internet needs to have some existential crisis over it

Never confirmed Santa was real - vaguely mumbled he was a symbol of the peace and good will to all men Christmas spirit

Easter bunny stood no chance!

H on the other hand has huge issues with Jesus (not personally just all organised religion as a whole) as do I, so even the nativity story was a bit of a struggle (he got there in the end!)

I noticed the free carrots for the EB thing in our Asda and don't remember ever seeing it before.

I did wonder if they'd overestimated the demand for the '5 bags of veg for £1' offer and were looking for any old way to get rid of excess stocks!

I wonder if the Holiday Armadillo will ever take off too?!

Ive always put eggs outside at bloody 5am ready for DS to come downstairs and see twinkles of coloured foil eggs peeping out of the bush. My parents did that for me as a kid and I absolutely loved it! Son imagined that EB was like the Cadbury advert - so a fluffy small bunny - and not just 1 bunny - but rather an army of chocolate egg delivery bunnies 🤣

I kind of think if youre not bothering with an egg hunt - you're just giving your kids a shit load of chocolate for the sake of it? Surely that's more pointless.

DS is 11 this year, ive been asking him if he still thinks he wants an egg hunt from EB. He says "up to you!" In a way of - he obviously knows its not real. This year ive left a trail of eggs from bedroom down the stairs and then a little egg hunt for him in the living room (storm near us tonight). Its actually a relief to know that I dont have to go and set up the garden at 5am and will probably be our new "thing" until he really is an older teen that doesn't care!

I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned an Easter bunny! Mine just think mummy and daddy/ grandma and grandad get them an egg or do an egg hunt in the garden, but I don’t think I’ve ever said anything about an Easter bunny. Mine are 7 and 3. I don’t think they’re mentioned it either.

Yanbu, never told them about the easter bunny. Though tonight at bedtime I did say jokingly right off to bed or the Easter Bunny won’t come but they are 9 and 13

When my grandson was about 3 my DH dressed up as the Easter bunny - he appeared in our garden, waving at my grandson whilst scattering little eggs all over the lawn. My grandson ran out with his arms outstretched and gave the EB a massive hug. It was all very sweet.

A few months later I was scrolling through the pics on my phone and came across a photo of my DGS hugging the EB. I showed him it and said ‘oh look, there’s you….and who’s that?’

‘GRANDAD!’ he said 😐

My DC are older now at 14 & 16, I’ve never explicitly told them Father Christmas, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny aren’t real. Obviously they know they’re not, but there was never a ‘big reveal’. DD sits with me whilst I order her very specific make up/clothes for Christmas to be sure I get the right things, but Christmas Eve I still tell them they can’t be stomping up and downstairs for food at midnight/having leisurely 10pm baths etc ‘or Father Christmas won’t come’. I put presents and stockings out whilst they’re hiding in their rooms.

DD needed 4 teeth extracted a year ago before having braces, kept the teeth and said in no uncertain terms she expected the tooth fairy to pay up for these ones 🤣 (the tooth fairy left her £20 for those, it wasn’t nice).

EB will be up before them tomorrow, which isn’t hard as they won’t emerge before about lunchtime, but he’ll have left them a couple of eggs. It’s just a bit of family fun really and they are happy to indulge me.

Spoiler alert puh-leeze! 🐇🐰🐣🤔😂

I've always treated Santa, The Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy the same. My eldest also believed in a fairy called Fairy Locks who I inadvertently created with no intent.

The older ones grey out of it by about ten. Though my youngest who is nine is still very into it.

We never ‘did’ the Easter bunny, the kids always knew that eggs were from us. I was surprised the amount of their friends whose families did the Easter bunny. I had to tell my kids that some kids believed in the easter bunny and to keep quiet.

We did do the tooth fairy and Santa.

My colleagues son had SEN and took everything literally. He saw someone dressed as the Easter bunny and said ‘mum his isn’t the real Easter bunny!’ She says ‘of course he is!’ He said ‘why has he got a zip up his back then?’ She had to explain he had helpers like Santas as she thought if she said the Easter Bunny was made up he might start questioning Santa etc.

^This. Previous years My DS was v. Kindly gifted eggs and they would sit in kitchen shelf on run up to Easter for him to look forward to. On Easter Sunday - I would hide said eggs and make up clues just for fun. Despite the fact the eggs were simply moved previous years- he has gone full pelt into Easter bunny - was on the countdown for the Easter bunny tracker to begin ! I was perplexed he was actually watching
i also share same concern that- Easter bunny, like the elf on shelf - just is weaker and will be worked out first

It's a little magic and fun. Of course he's real!!

I don't know the percentages but I listened to a dad telling a 4yo girl, today in Tesco carpark, that the Easter bunny was a bit like Father Christmas. She wouldn't actually see him but he would hide Easter eggs in nana's garden on Saturday night.

I can hear our school rector revolving in his grave with fury. 😁 He hated anything other than ecclesiastical reverence for Easter.

We didn’t tell dd santa was real either. Nursery and peer pressure are powerful influences.