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How do you *do* Christmas???

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badkarma · 10/10/2006 13:13

Tradition in our house, was to have a space for each childs gifts. eg: Mine was on the big armchair beside the fire, sisters was on the sofa and my brothers was on the coffee table. (Although there were 8 of us at home, the eldest ones were a lot older and had grew out of "santa" gifts long before we did. Ours was never wrapped, just sitting there, all shiny and new waiting for us to find them. My dolls were already in their buggys, batteries were already in everything we got, we had no wrapping paper to open (or throw away!)
I still carry on this tradition with my kids, they get up and dd's gifts are on the sofa and ds's are on the armchair, no wrapping etc... they know they are from santa. Then we give them a small gift from us, maybe a dvd or something, and they know their stockings are from us, but I like them to think that Santa left their toys etc....

However, a friend recently suggested to me that what I was doing was wrong. She said her kids know that they buy all the toys, She wraps everything individually and has FROM MUM & DAD on them... her kids are 6, 7 and 9 and know that Santa isn't real I know some people DO do it that way.

Do you all wrap all the gifts and do your kids think the wrapped gifts are from santa or from parents?

OP posts:
dmo · 14/10/2006 21:30

when my dh was small he was so upset to find out fc was not real and thought all the presents would stop
so we decided all the presents in the pillow case in the bedroom were from fc
stuff like:
football
books
bitty games
art stuff
then all the things downstairs are from us

elauns · 15/10/2006 08:40

As a child we got stockings at the foot of the bed from Santa, which gave us the signal that all had been delivered and to get up... We made name tag's and placed them in the dining room so Santa knew where to put our presents - none wrapped and batteries etc already in place...

When we were old enough though we could always hear M&D running up the hallway late at night from their bedroom (the hiding place for all the toys), to the dining room, so upon querying this were told that Santa recruited the parents to leave the presents as because there were so many children in the world he didn't have time to deliver them all... This settled my curiosity for a year or two.

My little one is only 2 so I don't have to make anything up for a few years hopefully. You can't keep the pretence going for too long though as they do get ridiculed in school for believing if they are too old.

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