Do you get your children Christmas presents or are they all from Santa?

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Growing up all of my presents Christmas morning were off Santa, my parents didn’t get us presents but they always said they paid Santa for the presents. Some of my friends received a main gift from Santa and the rest from parents. My DD is only 1.5 so have a year or two to decide how I’ll do it but I’m just curious.

Stocking and a stack of presents from Santa. If a relative gives them a present they usually see them in person to get it.

Father Christmas does the stocking, everything else is from us.

Santa gets the stocking, we get the rest. Not letting a bloke who breaks in once a year take any more credit than the bare minimum!

He doesn't break in here, he's invited to hop down the chimney. We leave him a blanket and book for a rest too!

Santa in this house 🙃

Because Santa and the elves make all the toys at the North Pole load them up on the sleigh and deliver them to all the boys and girls. I don't think there is a limit to how many gifts he brings. When my dc gets to an age were he no longer believes the he will know that it was us that got him the presents.

The stocking is from Santa. Everything else is from family.

We adopted DD when she was 7.
She had had a bunch of Christmas's with next to nothing (we moved around do much he couldn't find us), then 2 bumper years in foster care (lots of presents to make up for missing years).
So we did stocking only (downstairs in conservatory, she didn't like the idea of him coming into the main house), and everything else from us and family.

To my mind the simpler you keep it the easier it is later.

And actually we never really did Santa, we said 'if the stocking is full' not 'when Santa's been' as we also promised we wouldn't lie to her.

Santa is used in Ireland too…it was never Father Christmas here.

Both, toys from Santa. More practical boring stuff like Pjs or bedlinen from us. Santa are left under the tree, we exchange ours later as family. I think this is good for a few reasons, we encourage kids to buy for us and each other from a young age so we all exchange presents. Also it deals with what is usually the first query- if Santa is really mum and dad why would they also buy us presents? I feel Santa stayed a year or two longer because of this logic. Also agree Santa can't bring pets or tickets / holidays and he can only bring electronics if parents give permission.

we did all from Santa in our house, after a few years realised that was a faff as meant had to hide all of the presents (ok for a Christmas at home, nightmare for christmases at grandparents!) plus we had awkward conversations as the children got older about why some of their friends had presents from parents and they didn’t - not that they were expecting more, but why was that the case !

All presents on Christmas morning were from Santa in our house, then we had gifts from family

All from us. I realised when eldest was quite young that he was likely to one of those kids who would be very upset when they realised Santa was not real and their parents had lied to them.

I have no memories of believing in Santa as a child yet loved Christmas and found it magical, so had no issues with pulling back from the whole Santa is real thing. Really glad I did.

Stocking from Father Christmas

all other gifts from me !

That's what I used to do for dd. It would have felt strange for her to have no presents from me. When I was a child though, all my presents were from Father Christmas.

All from Santa here. I really don't need any credit and will get it eventually when they realise anyway, it just obviously isn't immediate.

Small stocking from Santa. Other presents downstairs split between Santa and us. DS likes lots of smaller/mid-value gifts at Christmas and then if there's a bigger item he'd like he tends to ask for 'just' that on his bday, which isn't long after Christmas anyway.

DH used to have all from Santa so I went along with that initially but DS did ask when he was about 3 (innocently) why we didn't get him anything. After that we did the split, and I gradually skewed it more towards us to soften the blow re the eventual news. Looking back now I overthought this a bit!

Presents from family are from family (mostly under our tree).

I know. She is a sweetie - tho least I have notice this year. Last year we had twins for her birthday and she said think on the 23/12 that fc will be coming to them

emergency Amazon to the rescue for a baby rattle 😂😂 and

this year I have more notice and she is using her own baby’s first Xmas stocking for her

she wrapped up a pressie for her toy dog last year 💓

Stocking fillers are from Santa, main gifts are always from us

Years ago, before I even had DC, I read an article about how children whose parents didn’t have a lot of money would ask if they had been bad and that’s why Santa hadn’t given them much compared to their friends. It broke my heart a little. The article suggested a way we could all address this was not to say all presents come from Santa. It stuck with me, so in our house the stocking is from Santa but the main, more expensive presents, are from us.