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To not do the Easter Bunny?

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Supermagicsmile · 27/03/2018 23:06

All the mums in DD's class seem to be doing it in a big way. They were talking about it at a party at the weekend and now I feel really guilty that we've never done it.
Dd is old enough to ask so I also feel bad as I don't have an explanation for why when she inevitably asks why she didn't get a visit from the Easter Bunny when everyone else did.
What would you say? Would you cave and just do it so she's not left out? I don't have any real opposition, just never grew up with it so haven't done it for mine either.

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tobee · 27/03/2018 23:08

What does do the Easter bunny mean?

Bluecarrot · 27/03/2018 23:11

We do an egg hunt but the kids know it’s me. I just say that I like to hide the eggs.
Its not extravagant- some plastic eggs with a jigsaw piece and a mini chocolate egg inside each, plus one big egg for each child. ( once they’ve completed the jigsaw, they know they’ve found all the eggs)
Last year my then 3 year old asked me to hide the empty eggs over and over for about a month.

1happyhippie · 27/03/2018 23:13

Do you mean like the Easter-bunny comes in and delivers all the eggs and chocolate?
I have never done that either. We just get Easter eggs off family and friends.
I actually don't know anyone who does this? Do they set them all up overnight like Christmas when Santas been?
We go visiting relatives and the dc get an Easter egg from them.

LovingLola · 27/03/2018 23:14

Tell her that you are the Easter Bunny.

elQuintoConyo · 27/03/2018 23:15

We don't do the Easter bunny. We do the Easter parents.

We do:
FC
Caga Tio (Spanish log at Christmas)
Perez the Mouse (Sanish tooth fairy equivalent).

That's it. I'm not adding a buggering rabbit into the mix!

TittyGolightly · 27/03/2018 23:16

We don’t do Santa. I’m sure as hell not doing the bloody Easter Bunny.

ThePlatypusAlwaysTriumphs · 27/03/2018 23:17

I've never done the Easter bunny, even though I have religiously been both the Tooth Fairy and Santa. Wasn't something I grew up with I suppose. I've done egg hunts however.

Ohyesiam · 27/03/2018 23:17

What’s the bunny supposed to do then?
Do you mean an Easter egg hunt?
Bag of mini eggs takes 5 minutes to hide ,it’s not late!

DustandRubble · 27/03/2018 23:19

When my daughter asked about the Easter bunny I am afraid I failed to contain my disdain and told her it was just pretend and very silly.

I do feel a bit bad for that, but I found it hard enough to commit to the Tooth Fairy. FC is about my limit.

SouthWestmom · 27/03/2018 23:20

We do😳 bunny leaves a riddle and a list of things to find. Kids come down, decipher clues and go off hunting. I hide all the eggs the night before.

Babdoc · 27/03/2018 23:21

I don’t recall a bunny being involved in the resurrection of our lord Jesus Christ? Could someone point me to the relevant passage in the gospels?

StylishMummy · 27/03/2018 23:23

@Babdoc there is a thread for po-faced fun suckers elsewhere

TittyGolightly · 27/03/2018 23:23

I don’t recall a bunny being involved in the resurrection of our lord Jesus Christ? Could someone point me to the relevant passage in the gospels?

Bunnies pre-date the Christians stealing Easter from the pagans etc.

Ohforfoxsakereturns · 27/03/2018 23:23

Oh god no! I’m doing my 15th year of it. It’s my last time.

Every year I grumble ‘I wish I never started this. Fucking easter bunny’.

Every year I get up at 6am and lob the fucking Easter eggs around the fucking garden (but out of the way of the fucking dog) and get back in bed freezing cold with soggy pyjama bottoms wondering if I’ll get away without having to pick slugs off the eggs.

I’m coming clean this year, as DD heads of to high school in sept.

Santa will also be taking a hike (but I love Santa so will continue to do all that regardless).

SweetMoon · 27/03/2018 23:25

Do you mean you don't give your dc a chocolate egg on Easter Sunday?

tigercub50 · 27/03/2018 23:28

I wasn’t brought up with The Easter Bunny so haven’t done it with DD. We do an egg hunt

TittyGolightly · 27/03/2018 23:29

DD is 7. There are 4 eggs here left from the last 2 years. I’m not buying her any more till they’ve gone!

Grilledaubergines · 27/03/2018 23:29

We never did the easter bunny. My teens don’t seem too affected! Is it a fairly new thing because I don’t really know of anyone who does it.

We do “ what egg would you like this year”. They say, we buy. They get a few of other people too. I help eat them.

elQuintoConyo · 27/03/2018 23:32

DS has already had a giant Konder egg. He's getting his chocolate chicken on Sunday. Some crap on Saturday. A (small) chocolate bunny on Monday. And tomorrow he is seeing 6 cousins - more chocolates.

Only the chicken is from us.

He has a week off school, i'm not giving him all that chocolate on one day!

Plus DH and i buy each other a Lindt bunny (or knock-off Lidl one).

BackforGood · 27/03/2018 23:34

Another who doesn't know what "doing the Easter bunny" entails. I really don't think it is as big a 'thing' as you think it might be.

I mean, my dc are older, but even if it were a new thing, I know quite a lot of families with little dc and none of them have ever mentioned it either.

Storminateapot · 27/03/2018 23:35

My kids are teens now but we never did the Easter Bunny thing. They were given an Easter egg from us and various other family members. I also used to do an egg hunt with personalised clues for each child, but the Bunny is a load of meaningless tripe in my view.

Lalliella · 27/03/2018 23:41

I don’t recall a bunny being involved in the resurrection of our lord Jesus Christ? Could someone point me to the relevant passage in the gospels? What about at the beginning of the gospels, is there anything about Santa there?

5foot5 · 27/03/2018 23:44

I just don't know what doing Easter Bunny means.
When DD was small we bought her a chocolate egg (oh hang on she is 22 and I am still planning to get her one) and so did her relatives. They were given to her we didn't hide them in the garden or anything. One year I made a big papier mache eggs and filled it full of chocolates. That went down well.

If they want a treasure hunt then there are many such events at NT properties this weekend or geocaching all year round.

HoobleDooble · 27/03/2018 23:50

Nope. No bunny, no smug-faced bastard elf on my shelf and an extremely tongue-in-cheek tooth fairy here. Santa's real, but I'm beginning to think my DS at the age of 9 is just humouring me in case he doesn't get any presents.

nooka · 27/03/2018 23:52

In what way do bunnies predate Christian Easter? Are their accounts of pagans hiding eggs and pretending it was a bunny that did it? I would have thought it more likely that the pagans were eating the bunnies really.

Spring has been celebrated for a long time, and eggs are a great symbol of spring. Baby animals too, and of course rabbits are associated with fertility for fairly obvious reasons.

The Easter Bunny seems to be an almost exclusively American thing, and I don't see why anyone should feel any pressure to enact it. Have an Easter egg hunt sure, they are fun but no need for the bunny. Plus children often very much enjoy setting up hunts for their families in my experience (and how can you tell them if they are hot or cold if you are pretending that the bunny did it?).

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