Santa

[Howsthings1234]

DD is only 17 months so we haven't had to explain about Santa yet but me and my husband seem to have totally different ideas about how it all works. We need to get our stories straight!!

My husband thinks that Santa delivers all the presents on behalf of other people and doesn't buy any gifts himself. All the gifts then appear Christmas morning under the tree when the children wake up.

I think that Santa delivers gifts into a stocking or sack which children open first thing. They know these gifts are from Santa. They then have other gifts from family members which were under the tree or given to them direct by visiting relatives and are told who they are from and are able to thank accordingly.

Help?!?

Your way. Definitely.

Everyone does it differently so you need to agree on a strategy for your house.

We had Santa with one main present. We as parents sent order and payment for the rest from us (to stop rediculous requests of costly none sense) and Santa delivered these. The rest were told the truth, gifts from who ever they were from and delivered by that person. DH was always everything g from Santa, I don’t like the idea of the children not thanking the gift giver so knocked that one on the head.

Everyone is different. Here he fills the stocking with little stuff, including one or two items from the christmas list. This year that includes a toy bullet train and some Spitfires. He delivers the rest of the presents which are from everyone to the tree downstairs. My children know that Santa is not responsible for these except as a delivery service.

All gifts bought for DC by me and DH are from Santa.

All other gifts, bought by family members and friends, are from them! I think it's important for DC to know who bought what because I want DC to be able to thank each person properly for their gift.

Santa brings stocking and one asked for gift.

Everything else from us and family downstairs.

I get too tied up in knots at the idea of Santa being a glorified postman, I start to not see the point of it all!

You are correct. However many people do do it as your DH wants to, so I suppose you have to give him a hearing .

One thing you might want to think about is how other families in your family are doing the Santa thing, and whether that will impact on your child in the future. For example we do Santa-only-brings-stockings but SiL does Santa-brings-everything-under-the-tree. We have spent Christmas once or twice with them and it would have been very awkward to explain to my kids why their cousins got shedloads of wrapped gifts, including big electronic items, from Santa while they got harmonicas and Play Doh, or conversely why their cousins parents hadn't bought them any presents and we had bought them a bike (or whatever). As it happened circumstances meant it didn't come up either time as the kids weren't together when they woke up (they might have been but they weren't).

My own cousins also did "all presents are from Santa". The way I explained it to myself when I was little was "Santa brings everyone small presents but some people's mummies and daddies like to add to that and pretend that the extra presents come from Santa."

Santa brings stocking and a few gifts from the wish list. We givea pile and the stuff from! Everyone else goes under the tree when it arrives.

We always had one present from Santa the big present - bike etc & a small stocking

Everything else was from Mum & Dad or who ever had bought it

Your way.

I have 2 DC; Santa brings all the presents that are in their santa sacks. Couple of big seperate presents are from us. Gifts from other family members are always just from them.

Santa gives one gift but delivers all presents from me and OH, presents from family members are exchanged Boxing Day and given directly this makes it easier all round for us :)

Santa brings everything we've bought which appear under the tree and in the stocking on Christmas morning. Presents from other people come from them and go under the tree as when we get them if they come in advance.

Santa took the credit for all gifts bought by us for DC. Until one year my dd, probably around 6 or 7, asked if I was going to buy her a present that year. I replied of course, why do you ask? She said that I'm the only one in the family that doesn't buy them presents, even though she and her brothers always get me a gift! I must add that the gift they 'bought' me was also something I had purchased that DH took the credit for!! Since then Santa has only bought the stockings and hubby has to take the kids to buy my gift. 😂

We get the kids one or two gifts. Everything else in our house is Santa. Gifts from family and friends come directly from them so the children know and say thank you.

We do it your way (or we do from now on. Don't recall how we did it last year!). 🎅🎅🎅