to be pissed at ASDA advertising that i can buy STOCKING FILLERS from them????

[muppetisacat]

....my 7 year old just saw their Julie Walters advert to promote stocking fillers... 2 for £8 or something like that...

... "mummy... why do you need to buy stocking fillers???"...

surely their advertising agency could be more subtle (dare i say "creative") in getting their message across?

Plus i am rubbish at thinking on my feet and too sleep deprived to come up with a convincing argument.

[TheAnticodCod]

[TheAnticodCod]

mione asked me about it and i change the subeject
i do think some parents are overhystericla baout it

[filthymindedvixen]

yeah. All kids are exactly the same and all hit life's milestones at the same time. Yes?

[TheAnticodCod]

ooh calm donw!

[filthymindedvixen]

[DarthVader]

Asda advertising is appalling. I mean, Sharon Osborne shops at Asda and slaps her arse pocket with glee at the pennies she saved? Yeah right!

[2shoes]

just out of interest. how do you stop a 9 year old finding out the truth. surely they get told at playtime.

[HeyThereBert]

oh good grief. cant you say you and FC and his elves have a cooperative relationship or something??

as if 9yos still really believe in santa anyway.

[Wisteria]

mine weren't having me on, and were genuinely devastated when they found out at 10.....I didn't mind them finding out btw and wouldn't have done if it had happened at 6 either, that's life isn't it!

Asda deliberately advertising the fact all over the tv at prime dc time though, is a bit much isn't it?

[MrsSlocomb]

All my children who are old enough firmly believe in FC and the tooth fairy. My eledst 2 are 9 and 8. I think its' great that they do. TBH I think it's somewhat shitty of parents to say otherwise.

I tell mine when they ask why some children say santa doesn't exist that I have no idea why they are saying that. I say how sad for those children that they do not believe.

I am a very persuasive person and I hope my 9 year old will believe for a couple of years more.

[filthymindedvixen]

I don't care if he finds out on december 26th. I really don't. But just this one last year...please?

[HeyThereBert]

not imo.
cant imagine being bothered about it.

[Unfitmother]

We told DS the truth last year as he's 10 and we didn't want him being laughed at.
He still believed until then.

Agree with OP, rotten old ASDA!

[TellusMater]

Can't you just say that it's another word for present? Because Father Christmas fills stockings.

'Stocking filler' is a pretty common term.

[filthymindedvixen]

UM - at the rsik of being laughed at on here, how did you tell him? How did he react?

[DarthVader]

How long your kids believe in FC is a direct measure of how good a parent you are

[flyingmum]

In my first year of teaching (my first born was only 2 at the time and I have to say in my defence I assumed that most children worked out the Santa thing by the time they were 8ish and we never had it when we were young - I got my first Santa sack when I demanded one aged about 12!) I said to my year 7s in a lesson 'you remember when you first discovered that Santa isn't real...' There was a lad in the front whose face just fell, then looked really disappointed and then shiftily glanced round to see what his mates' faces were like, saw everyone was nodding and then composed a noncholant look of wisdom and authority on his face.

I still feel guilty about it but perhaps I might have inadvertedly stopped him getting teased in the playground. My eldest 'believed' for a long time until I felt I had to say when he was 10 (coming up to 11)'you do know that Father Christmas isn't real don't you). He already has SEN and was the 'odd kid' and I didn't want to give any of the other kids more ammunition for bullying him than they already had. It transpired that he had worked this one out some time ago but didn't want to burst my bubble by letting on!!! He's really good at keeping up the pretence now for his younger brother (7) who is now announcing he doesn't know whether or not to believe.

[TheAnticodCod]

lol at darthy

[filthymindedvixen]

Flyingmum, that's so bittersweet.

I honestly can't remember finding out. Or how I felt. Do people have a defining moment?

[Pixel]

Well I didn't think my 11 yo could still believe but the other day I overheard her excitedly telling someone about the sparkly stuff FC left all up the stairs last year! He just fills stockings in our house, no 'proper' presents.

[Swedes2Turnips1]

It is a relief not to have to do the snowy footprints from hearth to bedrooms, at 1am once I was certain they really were asleep and not coming down to catch me with my arm in a big Wellington boot with a tray of flour and a wet sponge at my side. I have all that to look forward to with my two little ones when they become Christmas-conscious - at the moment they are at just 2years and 4 months totally and blissfully unaware and the big ones are past the over-excitement stage (12 and 15). I suspect I will be doing snowy footprints again next year and (a brief respite). Oh and I pray that my DD will get Flyingmum as a teacher - perhaps in reception .

[TheAnticodCod]

you see the snowy thing is really ott imo

[DumbledoresGirl]

What a cynical lot some of you are. My 7 yo not only "still" believes in FC, she also believes most emphatically in the Tooth Fairy, as witness the efforts she went to when 2 of her teeth fell out last weekend.

The tooth fairy bit annoys me personally. My dd wistfully told me that the fairt leaves £1 or even £2 for some people's teeth and once left a handwritten note for her best friend on special fairy paper. I can't compete with that. It is sad to think dd thinks her teeth are in some way inferior because the fairy only leaves her 50p.

But getting back to the point, of course my 7 yo believes in FC. My older boys only made it plain they knew where the stocking fillers came from last year when they were 9 and 10 respectively.

[HeyThereBert]

i reckon they are all kidding you on. i reckon they all worked it out years ago but they play along coz its so important to you all and you keep swearing blind its true. and they think they have to play along or maybe they wont get any more of the goodies.

its perfectly possible for kids to be beside themselves with excitement about christmas without really honestly believing in FC. i was ott excited about christmas long after i knew there was no real fat bloke.

[dingdongbelgianbunsonhigh]

TBH I was really shocked at the price - stocking fillers in our house are really small - 2 for £8??? Is that all? Would expect 8 for £8!!!