To think you don't get presents for Easter?

[NurseRoscoe]

I don't mean a little book, DVD, outfit or soft toy, for a baby too young for chocolate, a child who can't have chocolate for whatever reason or in addition to a small egg if parents don't want their child having too much chocolate.

I have just seen an increasing number of people buying their children £50+ worth of toys, trampolines, iPads, concert tickets etc, some even asking 'is this enough from the Easter bunny?!' I'm not even that old and I thought the Easter bunny brought Easter eggs, not that he had an inferiority complex from Santa Claus?

Have things really changed this much?

I think it depends. I never got easter presents as such other than chocolate but one of my school friends did - it was a big event in their home, at least on a par with Christmas.

I prefer Easter to Christmas personally but the DCs birthdays are in late February and April so it is nicer to make more of a fuss at Christmas.

If I had autumn / winter born children I would probably do things this way round

We were always given new clothes, but most children have wardrobes full of stuff these days, so I suppose people are just substituting toys etc.

It is a bigger thing than Christmas in some Christian families.

We sometimes got toys but as teenagers/young adults sometimes my mum would buy us a new top/tshirt or jewellery.

Nicer than a chocolate egg?!

Mine get a couple of Easter eggs each and that's it. I've never had Easter presents or bought them, and I don't intend to start now.

How ridiculous to turn Easter into a second Christmas!! That would be my idea of hell.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with giving presents at Easter, or indeed because it's world pie day, presents can be given for any reason at all and there's nothing wrong with it.

I would never give anything but chocolate, to me a DVD or an outfit is just as crazy as an iPad, but that's just because I don't consider it worth celebrating, other people will think my idea of giving an iPad on a random day because an iPad was needed just as odd. People are different, nothing is wrong.

My mum gives presents to her grandchildren as they get lots and lots of chocolate and she didn't want to add to the pile - which is great by me! (As long as I still get my Easter egg though...)

It feels like another triumph of commerce over actual belief is marching our way then. Easter becoming a 'big thing'.

We're not religious, but we do xmas. It's a nice thing to look forward to in winter, and you can hardly escape it anyway! But Easter is just a card to some of the older relatives that bother, and a couple of choc eggs for the kids, and that's quite enough thank you.

I remember growing up being giving a football or some pencils "as its better for you than lots of chocolate." (Mums words) Anything more like an ipad does seem over the top.

Wizard can i join your dd and dp in their egg hunt please. Why do children get all the fun. At xmas mil were delighted to be offered the chance of icing a gingerbread tree in waitrose. They only asked the adults and everyone was joking and enjoying being children again. Lady next to mine was amazing!!!

Some people seem to take any chance to show off buy big presents for their children. I saw someone posting the pile of valentines presents she had got her children (6 and 3) on Facebook!

DS will get a book from me for Easter. He isn't a big chocolate eater and last year I had to eat an egg his eggs went out of date before he got to them all so I don't see the point in buying an egg but don't stop others.

We got a present at Easter from my mum, but it was something like a CD or a poster - this was because we came from a large family where we got Easter eggs from all of our relatives. Most years, as children, we got over 20 each! And we were greedy children, so we gorged ourselves on the day to stop the others from eating ours

I just get my children an egg each - their gran's send them £5 each in a card as we live abroad so that's much easier to post.

YY fred

We always got our son a book that he wanted at Easter, as he would have easter eggs from everyone else. as he's now 22 he gets nothing for easter.

We buy a new book and an Easter outfit for Church. The girls get eggs from both sets of GPs and their godparents. Plenty!

Easter is the time to get newpants and socks. It's the law

You get Easter Eggs and new shoes. I don't know if that's just my family or a northern thing. My grandparents used to buy us shoes at Easter and my parents do the same for my daughter and I. My husband, southern, thinks it's nice but a bit odd.

I have winter born children so at Easter they get a couple of eggs and then a joint outside toy, which would normally be an Xmas present but seeing as the weather is dreadful we hold off till Easter. All my siblings who would normally send me £5/10 for eggs for the dc like it to go towards this, and yes one year it was a slide, this year it's swing ball :)

Loads of people do it these days. I hate it. I feel oppressed by the ever-increasing tide of presents for all occasions and the fact we have no space for them and I'm constantly trying to declutter. If someone started trying to foist Easter presents on my kids I'd be most unimpressed.

It's one egg from us and one from aunty in this house!

Mine are having new clothes because we are going away in May and want them to look good. They would have the new clothes anyway but will be given them at Easter. We are also doing an egg hunt, so have bought them each a basket to put their spoils in.

I don't do big presents at Easter. Seems a bit odd to me. But I don't have a problem with it if other people do.

I have never ever heard of easter presents. Kids get a choc egg, friends occasionally too if we are meeting up. If someone is eg diabetic they may get a flower bulb or a goose egg instead of a choc egg.

And a grown-up buying valentine's presents for their small children? What fresh (and rather creepy) hell is this?

Sirzy I agree it's the showing off that's more of a problem than the actual giving of things. Adults who show off are likely to create children who show off and that's when parents can feel pressured into getting their children piles and piles of things for every occasion going, because they don't want their child feeling inferior to other children, being picked on etc.

Tbh I was just dreading what I had to come once my son starts proper school next year, everything seems like such a massive competition with parents on facebook, is it that way with the children at school too?! I don't want to spend loads of money on things the kids don't need just to keep up with others, I like them appreciating the little things like they do at the moment (my son got excited about a pair of minion socks the other day lol) but at the same time I don't want them to be bullied or feel left out! Maybe I'm just overanalysing though.

ArcheryAnnie that was exactly my view on valentines presents!!

Presents at Easter? Really? I'm from a Christian family and we never got presents :(
My children get the odd Easter egg, but it's not really a big deal. Do church, have a nice dinner, relax and spend time with family. Easter is family catch up time for us, not present time (we can't afford anything until at least June as all family birthdays are Jan+ Christmas!)