To ask Santa or Parents

[stokieginge]

Just a curious thread really.

At Christmas who do you tell your DC/DSC brought their presents.

Santa/Father Christmas or you their parents? Or a mixture of the two?

Santa delivers the presents but mummy , daddy, grandma and grandad pay. Santa can work from ds's list, take suggestions from those paying or choose something he thinks ds might like.

We've encouraged only asking for three presents from father Christmas which ds went for, ended up only asking for two so popped a figure to finish a collection in there. Everything else is mummy and daddy, grandma, grandad etc. He's a bit cynical at the moment (nearly three) so will see what happens....

Only stocking from Father Christmas. A couple of presents from us.
All other presents from whoever bought them, according to the label! Eg grandparents/aunts/uncle.

It’s not believable for all the presents to be from Father Christmas! Surely the children won’t believe in him for as long?
People are always talking about whether they’ve finished their Christmas shopping etc, how would you explain that? Also how would you explain gifts you’ve bought for other people eg your husband/wife?

Plus, it’s nice for the person who bought the present to be thanked properly.

all presents from santa - the same as when i was a kid. i buy and wrap all presents in secret and hide them to keep the magic alive.

Stocking is from Santa

Everything else is from the people who bought it but Santa delivers everything

Stocking with mainly little bits (which add up!) and one bigger present from Santa, everything else from us. We probably spend about 1/4 of our budget per child on the stocking and 3/4 on gifts from us

Dh and I have different views on Santa.
My Santa delivers everything but not everything is from Santa.
His Santa only delivers Santa presents and stockings.

I prefer Santa delivering everything as it means things in his list can be divided by family and is under the tree on Christmas morning. He has 2 lego sets on his list one will be from Santa the other my parents. I would not suggest his other GPs get something from his list because i don't want to have a disappointed child on Christmas morning. I don't allow crazy long lists 3 things max.

We had tears when DS was about 4, his stocking was by his bed. The things he asked for were under the tree. Tears and heartbreak because he thought stocking was all Santa had brought and his main gifts weren't in it. Not doing that again!

No Santa here at all - everything is from parents, grandparents etc.

Santa brings stockings.
We give main pressies.
Santa brings main pressies for those children who's parents have less time or money. (This is a cover for when my youngest child's friends believe that Santa brings main pressies or when he sees something on TV)
He's nearly 9 and still strongly believes. I love it! His 2 older brothers are very good at not spilling the beans.

We get the main big present, Santa fills stockings and brings one or two smaller presents

My parents used to 'send the presents to Santa'. My grandma always told me that when my mum was a small child, she wondered why her aunties, uncles, grandparents etc had bought her gifts but her parents hadn't 😂

I've always said who has bought the presents so they can be thanked.
Santa doesn't exist anyway.

Santa brings main presents and fills the stockings and we would also have a couple of gifts wrapped from us under the tree.

Stocking of smaller presents from Santa, with one "bigger" present from him too.

Then a couple of present from us - either one big one (like a scooter) or a few smaller ones

They know that Santa sends their Christmas letter back to us after he has read it, saying what he will get - that's how parents and grandparents also buy things off the Christmas list

One santa present. So far it's been the most coveted, which isn't necessarily the most expensive. Stockings make sense to me too.

It's fun to have the fantasy of believing in Santa and to keep it going, but the all from Santa approach has a higher risk of practical difficulties. I want the DCs to know that most of their presents come from us, and they know we do shopping and parcels come to the house anyway. I favour keeping Santa simple.

Stockings from santa
Gifts from parents and family

This is because some kids get very little round here and I don't want mine thinking they are extra special with santa bringing everything - makes no sence

sdaisy26 thanks, I didn't know that! Still think it's a long time to wait, surely you just give the presents then normally.

6th of Jan is the epiphany - Italian DC get a stocking (of mainly sweets) from the befana (Christmas witch/hag)
Young women sometimes dress up as her too.

Main presents are on the 25 from the baby Jesus/father Christmas :)

Mixture.

3-4 smaller cheaper presents from Santa then the rest from me/family.

Father Christmas brings stocking gifts only- and they are the smaller/less expensive things (chocolates, bubbles, stickers, books etc) presents under the tree are from family including us as parents.