I need to know stats on how many people tell their kids the easter bunny is a real thing like Santa

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Seeing how many people are on taking about it like this is blowing my mind!

yabu - I tell them it’s real
yanbu - no I don’t

“Deny the Easter bunny once, your first child shall henceforth be a dunce.”

(Alice, in the vicar of Dibley)

The only time DD got a note from the tooth fairy was to explain she was a bit pushed for £1 coins right now so hope she doesn't mind all the change.

Easter Bunny as real as Santa and the Toothfairy in our house. Just as it was for me nearly 60 years ago. Lots of fun and my DC have very happy memories of their egg hunts on various Easter holidays

We’ve never done the bunny.

It’s so interesting - I wonder if there is any clear distinction about why families did or didn’t back then? Was it to do with religion? Like when I was young my mum wasn’t keen on Halloween, believing it to be ‘worshipping the occult’. I’ll need to ask her if she knew others did the EB when I was wee.

Never ever even thought of doing the Easter bunny thing. Never heard of it in my childhood and only heard of it fairly recently in my area. Definitely not a common thing even today.

We've never done Easter bunny.

I also used to be a TA and have seen kids teased more for believing in the bunny than Father Christmas / Santa. Usually girls calling other girls "babyish" from about Year 4 onwards. And it lasting the remainder of primary school

Happy Easter everyone 💐

No and never even knew it was a thing until one of the kids mentioned it totally perplexed. I thought it was mad they said ‘it’s mad they believe in that’ and didn’t draw a correlation!!!

I fling some eggs around the garden and orchard for DD to find and she says it’s the Easter Bunny. I haven’t said it is real or not (she’s 6). If she asks I will tell her the truth, like I would with Santa. But it’s nice to have a bit of magic in your life.

Heehee! I mean the story of Father Christmas has lots to it... we know where he lives, how the presents are made, how he gets to everyone in the world in one night.

With the EB it's more.... yeah a bunny just turns up and lays out all those eggs you've seen in Tescos in a box saying "perfect for egg hunts"....!

And at least Santa is actually human... are people genuinely convincing their kids that an actual rabbit is snuffling around doing this? Do kids know what actual rabbits look like and move like and still think their parents aren't lying?!

I don’t typically but Dd’s school showed them a video about the Easter bunny so she does believe it’s real and I don’t have the heart to let her down 🤦🏻‍♀️. Just sitting on the sofa summoning up the effort to sneak into the garden and hide the eggs.

I haven’t done any convincing - I’m sure if probed my 6 year old could work out it’s unlikely but there’s nothing wrong with being imaginative.

DD has decided herself this morning that there must be many Easter Bunnies as they don’t have a sleigh and wouldn’t be able to get all around the world. I’m sure if she thought really hard she’d also work out that when I went out to feed the hens with a large bag it probably contained the eggs she saw in Tesco. But she suspends belief because it’s enjoyable to do
so.

I definitely believed that a giant bunny was jumping over fences with a basket of eggs - still have a 50+ year old memory of trying to catch a glimpse of his tail disappearing into the neighbours garden. Simpler times !

I mean I think this, plus the Asda carrots, is not on! Like surely it’s one thing to all have our own family traditions and ways, but things like Santa need collective agreement from a large majority to really work surely, and who gave schools and shops the green light to influence our kids like this. Maybe we need a national referendum?!