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To ask what do your children think of the Easter bunny?

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sweetpea37 · 20/04/2019 22:52

My son 7 told me tonight he couldn't wait for the Easter bunny to come. He was dead serious. We never make a big deal out of Easter to us it's just a normal day and we buy dc a small gift rather than Easter eggs and they get too many from family members but we're always clear the gift comes from both me and DH. We're big into Christmas and I make Christmas very magical but I'm not sure if he is too old to believe in the Easter bunny. Any thoughts please? Thanks

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Justajot · 20/04/2019 23:25

DD1 has never believed. I gave it a go when she was 3 and she didn't even pretend to believe. We hadn't bothered since, but have done an egg hunt each year. DD2 is 4 and today we had a very odd conversation about the Easter bunny. Firstly she seemed to think that rabbits lay eggs, but wasn't too put out when I said that they don't. I asked if the Easter bunny is a girl or boy. She said boy as all rabbits are boys. When I asked about baby rabbits, she then said that when a rabbit gets really big it explodes making lots of little bunnies. Apparently the Easter bunny is going to hide the eggs that we have bought from the supermarket. I'm sure it all makes sense if you're 4.

mustdrinkwaternotwine · 20/04/2019 23:26

The Easter bunny brought my egg and put it on the end of my bed when I was little and I did the same with my DC. By chance, the first time DD saw a rabbit in the wild was the day before Easter when she was 2.5 so she immediately thought it was Easter bunny and was so excited that, for the couple of years after that, we actively tried to go to places with wild rabbits in the week or so leading up to Easter.
She is now 9 & DC2 is 6 and both are very scathing about the idea of the Easter bunny being real. For Christmas just gone, DD knew Father Christmas wasn't real & DC2 was sceptical. What confuses me is that they both completely believe that the tooth fairy is real, despite the ridiculous notion of it and the fact that we have forgotten to swap the tooth for money on at least one occasion and, on another, did the swap but I then left the tooth in our bathroom. Actually, as of two weeks ago, DD knows the tooth fairy isn't real as I decided it was so bizarre that she still believed in it as to be potentially embarrassing and so told her the truth.

beenhereages1 · 20/04/2019 23:28

My 10 year old announced this evening that he can't wait to go on the egg hunt.... I hadn't planned for that ConfusedGrin

I thought last year would have been the last!

MillicentMartha · 20/04/2019 23:31

Aw, mine ruled it out at around the same time as Father Christmas, the Tooth Fairy and God. So around 7 or so.

MumUnderTheMoon · 20/04/2019 23:33

My dd talks about the Easter bunny but while she is 11 she is also autistic and struggles to distinguish the difference between what is real and that which is imagined. I try not to talk about the Easter bunny but if she does I couldn't even begin to explain to her because of her level of understanding so I just let her be.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 20/04/2019 23:34

I took them to see "Hop" a few years ago (it wasn't even Easter time , it was the Kids AM films that were £1 / ticket)

My 19yo DS asked me if the Easter Bunny was arriving on Friday or Sunday .
Little git , he knows I still 'Do' Christmas, Hallowe'en, Easter so he's just cajoling me along to keep me happy and make sure he gets chocolate Grin

And Sunday Dinner. He'll go along with the Easter napkins and china rabbit spoons for chicken, Yorkshire Puddings and gravy ,

Whisky2014 · 20/04/2019 23:34

Jeez some misery guys out there eh.

We loved the Easter bunny as kids. Big egg hunts and it was always really exciting!

EllenRach · 20/04/2019 23:36

We still do a hunt but they know we hide them!

Mary1935 · 20/04/2019 23:38

I had to nip into Tesco express at 9.45 this evening.
My son said he is getting an egg from the Easter Bunny - I jokingly said there isn’t an Easter Bunny😕 - that went down well + he proceeded to tell me I had ruined his childhood and if there wasn’t a Cadbury’s mini egg with a cup - he wouldn’t forgive me!!! He’s 10 by the way.
Thankgod he fell asleep at 9.40 so I had time to get him this!!!
He even rounded up all the eggs he had so I couldn’t steal one of them. 😁.
I have the last laught - Tesco had what he wanted. Yeah
Happy Easter.

Serin · 21/04/2019 00:18

I love all those little folk lore tales that add magic to childhood. Santa, Easter bunny, tooth fairy, leprechauns, pixies......we believe in everything in this house.
We even have a video that DH managed to capture of the colony of teddy bears that live at the bottom of the garden.
The kids are all grown up now but they will still line up tomorrow for the grand Easter egg and spoon race.

HerRoyalNotness · 21/04/2019 00:21

My 8yo said something about the Easter bunny today after the egg hunt. My 11yo thanked me 4 or 5 times for everything even though he thought he was too cool for the hunt when I asked him to get dressed and he had hoped I didn’t hide anything in the front garden 😂😂

NCforthis2019 · 21/04/2019 00:23

Wtf is that even supposed to be a thing? It’s a god damn rabbit. Easter surely should be more religious than a bunny who provided chocolate eggs?! What is this bunny meant to do - deliver gifts or something?

Topseyt · 21/04/2019 00:29

Never done this. We didn't have the Easter Bunny as children, and I have never done it for my children either.

We just hand them their Easter eggs. Simple as that.

rainbowlou · 21/04/2019 00:34

I told mine recently the EB wasn’t real and it was a story to make it all magical etc etc...he said wow now my life has been ruined, followed by please don’t tell me santa is fake too...dramatic much! Blush

Purpleartichoke · 21/04/2019 00:35

Hiding plastic eggs are the only thing we do for easter. We never mentioned the Easter bunny. When dd was 3, she announced she needed her bunny costume for hunting eggs the next morning. It’s a good thing her mom knows how to turn some outgrown clothes into a bunny costume. She had heard about the Easter bunny somehow and took it VERY seriously. She required a costume annually until last year. She had stopped believing previously, but she hadn’t outgrown costumes yet. At age 10, she has instructed us as to how she wants the eggs hidden. She also wants to have lengthy discussions on the ridiculousness of the bunny myth.

Tinkoschminko · 21/04/2019 00:38

Loving the incredulity that a kid could believe in an egg-wielding Bunny when we’re discussing a festival about a guy who came back to life.

Whisky2014 · 21/04/2019 07:50

Wtf is that even supposed to be a thing? yes it's a thing. Have you never heard of an Easter egg hunt? The bunny comes in the Night and hides eggs around the garden or house. Kid wakes up and has fun finding it.
The religious part is the egg isn't it. You go roll a hard boil egg down a hill and that depicts Jesus rolling his stone away. That didnt happen

We had really good egg hunts when we were little. Actually I'm 32 and mum still does them for us :D

BeanBag7 · 21/04/2019 07:55

I never "got" the Easter bunny. Why would a rabbit bring eggs? Surely an Easter chicken would make more sense.

We wont be bothering with this with DD who is currently 2. Easter isn't really a big deal to me. We see DHs family and they give small presents to the kids, but I never see my family at Easter and we dont exchange gifts.

Whisky2014 · 21/04/2019 08:01

Beanbag you sound fun....

BarrenFieldofFucks · 21/04/2019 08:02

My kids said the same, I think it comes from school. Easter has become hyped out of all proportion. We just told them the Easter bunny wasn't a thing, Easter isn't Christmas.

Thirtyrock39 · 21/04/2019 08:03

I've had to do tooth fairy and Easter bunny last night/ this morning - dcs ages 7, 10 and 12- and tried to have a joke with my 12 yo about it and even she seemed to still be buying it (keeping schtum to get chocolate )

Whisky2014 · 21/04/2019 08:06

BarrenFieldofFucks if Easter bunny isn't a thing, why is father Christmas?!

LittleMissHappy19 · 21/04/2019 08:06

Well the Easter bunny has been to our house! We left our lounge window open for him to get in, to bring the eggs and a few little presents..He left a trail of tiny little carrots from the lounge, to the window and along the lawn to the hedge. Where he had obviously gone through, on to the next house! DS is 3, it was so magical watching him follow the carrots..the excitement..well 😍❤️

VashtaNerada · 21/04/2019 08:08

Interesting! Although I play along with Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy I’ve never done the Easter Bunny. I make a treasure hunt for the DC but never pretended a rabbit was somehow involved...

serii · 21/04/2019 08:09

Some serious misery guts on this thread!

Bet you all do Santa Claus!

Easter is named after a pagan fertility goddess. Hence eggs, bunnies, chicks, flowers and a general celebration of new life.

You don't have to be Christian to celebrate it.

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