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to think 10 is too old to believe in the Easter Bunny?

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Wentsworth · 21/04/2019 15:29

So I'm not sure if I am being incredibly judgemental, but my friend's kid is 10, 11 in June and he still believes..

I've never come across a kid that old who still believed. I'm sure me and all my friends clocked on way before then...it seems a little strange to me that at 10 you can still truly believe a giant bunny hops around the world delivering eggs?

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madcatladyforever · 22/04/2019 09:42

It's ridiculous.

daisypond · 22/04/2019 09:43

There is no need to be so sarcastic. I’m a professional history researcher and history writer, so do pick up the odd history book. Of course I know about the pagan festival and the hare, etc, but the commercialisation of the Easter bunny in the uk is new.

Langrish · 22/04/2019 09:46

Good grief, what’s wrong with him? 10? Hasn’t he discovered porn?

It’s very nice to read that some children are still children. Leave him alone.

(Though proviso, do not tell your children that Santa delivers for as long as you continue to believe. Our 16 and 25 year olds remind us, usually about 30th November, how they still fervently believe Grin).

Butchyrestingface · 22/04/2019 09:49

I don’t think I ever believed in the Easter bunny and I was gullible as fuck. I think I just got given eggs by my parents.

I still believed in Santa until the Christmas I was a geriatric 10. But it was 1988, and there was no internet and fewer smart arses running around trying to strip all the joy out of childhood.

Langrish · 22/04/2019 09:53

BiggerBoat1

grin of course its too old!

Ridiculous beyond about five years old.”

So at what age is it ridiculous to believe that an immaculately conceived bloke rose from the dead at Easter? Lots of grown ups do.

Know which story I prefer. Because I like chocolate.

TheFaerieQueene · 22/04/2019 09:56

I’m amazed at so many children of secondary school age, or there about, being so credulous.

WhyCantIThinkOfAGoodOne · 22/04/2019 09:57

I've never heard of the Easter bunny as a thing. I think they are an American thing that had been picked up here by Cadbury in the last couple of years

How has the Easter bunny made easter more commercial? Kids have been eating too many easter eggs since I was a kid in the 70s! The Easter bunny (which at least in my area is a fairly new tradition) at least adds a bit of magic to it, when my kids were little it was just a chocolate feast with no real rhyme or reason to it. More fun nowadays!

DeadWife · 22/04/2019 09:59

No sarcasm meant here daisy.

However, the bunny element is obviously connected to our ancient Pagan roots and not what's perceived as a recent American import.

I do agree though that's it's become far more about chocolate than anything else recently 🐰.

Zoflorabore · 22/04/2019 10:01

Dd is 8 and in year 3. We had a conversation last week where she started off saying that she's not stupid etc and knows that the "Easter bunny and tooth fairy aren't real but Santa obviously is" Grin

I had thought that she was going to say they all weren't real so was surprised she still believes in Santa as has lots of older cousins although ds (16) knows not to mention it to her.

I don't think many 10 year olds believe.

ClinkyMonkey · 22/04/2019 10:01

My 10yo DS appears to still believe in the Easter Bunny. It wasn't my idea to make it a thing in the first place, but we got caught up, over the years, in other people's bunny fantasy!

The trouble is, my children know I'm an atheist and when they ask me why I don't believe in God (because belief in God is the default in NI), I bang on about questioning things which sound illogical and making up your mind based on facts and evidence. No problem.

So .... I reckon they must think I've researched Santa and the Easter Bunny and confirmed them as real. After all, I've talked about scrutinising evidence etc. My poor confused kids!

Hiphopopotamus · 22/04/2019 10:11

Is there any need for the religion bashing? Easter is an incredibly special time for my family and I and is the most important Christian festival of the year. Ok - you might not believe it but let those who do celebrate without being told it’s bollocks and akin to a giant bunny delivering chocolate. Christians are absolutely not persecuted or downtrodden or anything else in this country and I am not trying to pretend otherwise, but you never see the festivals of other religions being utterly disparaged in this way.

TheSerenDipitY · 22/04/2019 10:16

my 10 year old does and i dont care if you think hes too old

TheSerenDipitY · 22/04/2019 10:19

@Langrish
mine know that rule.... my 19 year old said to me last week that she hopes the easter bunny knows where she lives now that shes left home

BertrandRussell · 22/04/2019 10:23

easter has become increasingly commercial. The idea of Easter trees and Easter decorations is a wonderful opportunity to sell us more stuff.

ForalltheSaints · 22/04/2019 10:25

Unusual- would be also rare if they still believed in Father Christmas too. Though it does people no harm.

Some adults believe the earth is flat!

LagunaBubbles · 22/04/2019 10:28

Will never understand why some people care so much about what other peoples children do or dont believe in. Who decides children are "too old" for something anyway, some people are in such a hurry to see children grow up to.

BertrandRussell · 22/04/2019 10:28

“mine know that rule.... my 19 year old said to me last week that she hopes the easter bunny knows where she lives now that shes left home”
My 22 year old asked the Bunny to post hers to her at work.........

ilovewelshrarebit123 · 22/04/2019 10:42

My friend has twins in Year 7 and she did the full on poem from the Easter bunny, Easter basket with soft toys and an egg hunt!

Bizarre if you ask me, but she does mollycoddle them and writes notes to school to get them out of anything they don't like doing Hmm

BroomstickOfLove · 22/04/2019 11:20

DD is in Y7 and enjoyed her egg hunt, collecting eggs in her Easter basket. We use the Easter decorations we made together when she was a preschooler, along with some things which grandparents have given us. We do generally have lots of celebrations and family traditions all through the year though. It makes life more fun.

BattenburgIsland · 22/04/2019 11:24

Dont say things like that OP! You sound like my best friends dad who took away her barbie dolls when she was 10 as 'she was too old for them now'... it was really sad.
Children will all grow up eventually why rush it? These years are magical and precious dont throw them away being a Betsy Bring Down!!!!
In only 4 or 5 years maybe even less these days.. hes going to be slamming doors and telling his mum he wishes hed never been born and no one understands him because they are all fake idiots.... let him believe in a giant magical bunny for a bit longer!!

BertrandRussell · 22/04/2019 11:30

I refuse to believe that a NT 10 year old believes in the Easter Bunny. They are stringing you along because it’s fun-but they don’t really believe.

BertrandRussell · 22/04/2019 11:31

And it’s completely different to the Barrie doll thing- that is sad.

outpinked · 22/04/2019 11:58

Disagree. My DS is nine and still a firm believer, he hasn’t even questioned it and I’m pleased. The longer they can remain innocent children, the better.

BertrandRussell · 22/04/2019 12:20

It’s a mistake to equate innocence and ignorance.

Langrish · 22/04/2019 13:06

Hiphopopotamus

How is children believing in an Easter bunny disparaging to Christians? It’s a Lutheran tradition.
Spring rites and rituals involving young animals go way back before Christianity. It’s great that your faith inspires you and gives you comfort. I don’t believe any of it but I understand a lot of people do and it enriches their lives. You have to understand too though that to many people, religious stories are nice fairy tales exactly akin to Santa and the Easter bunny. The fact that you believe doesn’t offend me in the least, each to their own. So you shouldn’t be offended by children believing a fairy tale either.