To think that the Easter bunny leaves an egg for morning

[littleloopylou]

Just found out that the Easter bunny didn't come to my ex's. My child was taken to an Easter event where the bunny had hidden some eggs for many children to find. Ex also mysteriously discovered some eggs in his car that were left by the Easter bunny, a few days after Easter.

My child thinks that the Easter bunny forgot them.

AIBU to think that ex totally dropped the ball on this?

Co-parenting is difficult enough without arguing over a mythical rabbit and a 200g of chocolate!

OP, you're not being unreasonable. Your ex totally dropped the ball and it's a shame that your poor child has ended up disappointed. The Easter bunny is a standard feature of Easter in this country no matter what people on this thread are trying to claim - but at the end of the day it doesn't matter because clearly the bunny was a standard feature of YOUR household and your ex had every reason to be aware of the expectations around it.

YANBU

the Easter bunny is not a Santa like figure. I find it absolutely bonkers how many parents have bought into this nonsense.

Also. You don’t need to carry on or start any traditions you’re not keen on.

the chances of my kids (who thankfully are adults so it wasn’t a thing) getting elf on a shelf would always have been zero because that is not something I was ever going to do.

maybe this is a good time to reevaluate the traditions you have and make a decision as to what ones you want to carry on with.

Righto. You're clearly the expert on ALL English people

But you're clearly not the expert in communication skills

Tell them there’s no Easter Bunny then and be done with it. You have brought this on by facilitating this nonsense. We never had the EB and my children’s lives were hardly scarred by this.

Also I mean this in a nice way, but maybe in future discuss things before Easter/Christmas etc so you know what’s happening etc?
we do that with my step kids mum but sometimes either house can accidently Do something different etc it’s not on purpose. It is hard to do everything the same when you live differently. Some things are purposely different because we are different households and if we did everything the way their mum wants, then that means for example I am never getting to choose a tradition etc.
I do think with some things the kids accept and except some things to be different and will often talk about the differences but not in a bad way.

Omg we did elf on the shelf for my step kids but I’ve already told DH we are not doing it for the baby 😂
it’s too hard to remember to keep moving the elf lol

One English tradition that you do need to know about right now is the Coronation Caterpillar. Whenever a monarch is crowned it's traditional that an adult in the house dresses up as a caterpillar and brings the children chocolate coins.

My child thinks the Easter bunny is real. I have never told them it is, they just started talking about it as a toddler. The Easter bunny leaves an egg hunt in our garden.

@littleloopylou Santa does visit our house, but with an understanding that it’s a bit of fun for everyone. There is no magical Coca Cola deity that we lie to them about.

@Sourfairy That is brilliant. Good children get M&S coins from the original Colin, badly behaved children get cheaper coins from Cuthbert and other knock
off brand caterpillars, all in a celebration of capitalism and parental stress, yay!!

I have to be honest, I’ve never even heard of the Easter bunny being a believable entity for children let alone visiting overnight in the way Father Christmas does and leaving an Easter egg for the morning. Seems a bit ridiculous to me personally BUT that’s what you’ve always done in the past with your family so I can see why it would be.. upsetting, for want of a better word, to have that disregarded. That’s the ‘joy’ of co-parenting to be honest, you cannot control what the other parent does in their time with their child/ren. He took them on an Easter egg hunt, why are you making such a big deal of the fact there wasn’t an egg there waiting when they woke? Least said, soonest mended, I certainly wouldn’t be faffing around with a late Easter egg and a daft note.

It really isn’t. FC is at least a person, not a fucking rabbit!

from seeing this thread I honestly never realised so many don’t do Easter bunny and Father Christmas these days?

don’t know what I’m going to do with my baby now 😂

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Something I could absolutely get on board with 🤣

Lesson number 1 is kids come home with all sorts of misinterpretations. Some may be deliberate, some misunderstanding. When my mum was teaching they had a fun 5 a side football tournament and the kids ( age 6/7) decided they wanted to call their teams after big football clubs. They got a irate phone call from a parent whose child had told them they had to have a proper club shirt.

So English people are telling you this isn't an English tradition, but you are the one who know better. Right. I think you need to brush up on your critical thinking skills and double check whether you or your child have understood proper. Little kids have an excuse for misunderstanding, especially if it means they get chocolate. You are old enough to double check.

Jeez I couldn't get worked up about this. It's not like it was their birthday. Sounds like you're looking for things to be cross with your Ex about.

See I think the problem is that you haven’t yet realised that you and your ex are not “family”.

Your child now has two different families who do things differently.

I’d use this as an opportunity to start bedding that in as there will be plenty of similar, and bigger, issues in the future that will be managed differently as you and your ex won’t take the exact same approach.

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This thread is mad. People are actually arguing that a magical man who gets flown around by reindeer and delivers gifts to c. 1 billion children is more realistic than a chocolate -delivering rabbit!

And yeah, the fact that my kid came home from English nursery believing in said magical rabbit does tell me that the people saying it's not in any way an English tradition are just deluded or wrong.

I'm not taking these replies seriously anymore. A lot of you obviously just want to be mean. Den of vipers indeed.

It's throwing a few eggs round a garden and lying that a bunny left them there, it's a very very low effort & cost way to create a bit of magic for children. I'm surprised more people don't do it.

The Easter bunny is a new American thing it never existed 40 years ago lots of families don't have it

Most people I knew when DS was a young child did a hunt but it was for fun, not children actually believing it was a creature that hid them.