People with young DC who don't do Elf on the Shelf- what do you tell them?

[TheCraicDealer]

DD is only ten weeks old so we're a while off this being an issue, but I'm genuinely curious.

Most of the parents on my social media seem to do this Elf on the Shelf shite and I just can. Not. Be. Bothered. I can get on board with Santa sneaking into the house to leave presents by ~MaGiC~, but I don't want DD thinking we have security issues with repeated breaches

Anyway because it now seems to have become such a thing I'm a bit worried that once she gets to childcare/nursery/school she'll ask me why the elves don't come to our house. I'm shit at thinking on my feet so I need to have a response sorted to spring out when the question comes. So if you've been asked what did you tell them?

It really adds to the magic and fun in our house!

I tell DD not to talk too much about it in school though as each family have different beliefs and therefore different experiences. A lot of the children don’t believe in Santa and don’t do Christmas because of their religions so it works for us

I tell them I'm texting Santa and come on Mumsnet instead. Surely that's why your all here ?

*Also I am inept and lazy
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Wish more people could be that honest!

Tell her it's their parents.

Both this and the Christmas Eve Box wankery belong the category/new era of Showboating For Social Media Parenting

Off topic but can we also add gender reveal parties to the list of wankery.

And cake smash parties.

I have told mine it is all about the agreement parents have with FC that's why different families have different arrangements. There's a lot of paperwork to be filled in earlier on in the year that covers it all. They have completely swallowed this!

Both this and the Christmas Eve Box wankery belong the category/new era of Showboating For Social Media Parenting

Along with pregnancy announcements, gender reveal, baby showers, cake smashes, present pile pictures etc.

Because I'm an elf and my job is wrapping presents, so I have a direct line to Father Christmas.

My two are 7 and 9 and they saw them in the shops so I said it was just a thing some parents do if their kids are naughty and they can’t think of a better way to get them to behave.

We also don’t do the Easter bunny, I just say it’s not real and why would a rabbit bring eggs?

We do kind of do Santa but in a low key way and I’ve never said it’s real, but we do the mince pies and the glass of milk etc. They go along with it though as I think they don’t want to risk not getting presents.

The only one I do do is the tooth fairy but even that I don’t think they truly believe in, they’re just going along with it for the money!