Christmas morning - what time do you let your children open their stocking?

[UpTheMagicChristmasTree]

When I was a child I was made to wait until at least 8am before I could get up on Christmas morning and open my stocking. I can remember it feeling like an excruciatingly long wait!
I'm still an early riser as an adult and so is dd, so in this house we say any time from 5:30am is fine. What does everyone else do?

As soon as DD wakes up we open stockings.

No we do the 8am thing too. Early risers can read in bed until it is time. Even our toddlers looked at their books and had one of the clocks where the rabbits eyes opened whe it wad time to come in to wake mummy and daddy.

The time has adjusted by age. I will be negotiating with my teen shortly. I want 10. She will want 7. We will settle on 8.30

They can open their stockings as soon as they're awake, in our house stockings are just filled with small items totalling no more than £20, mostly food, shows Santa has been (although they're beyond the Santa age now!) they then have to go back to bed if it's very early and we don't open the main presents under the tree until 7!

Whenever they wake!! I used to get up at about 4am when I was a kid 🤣 and my sisters and I had our stockings to keep us entertained until 7am ish as our parents refused to get up earlier (fair, but they weren't sleeping with all the excited shrieking going on!!)

7 am for my 10 year old. That's when he wakes me then he has to wait 10-15 minutes while I sort myself out and make a coffee

Between 6-7am is fine for us (4 year old and 1 year old). It was 6am last year for our 3 year old

I member my brother walking at 5:10 as a 6 year old back in the day

We've negotiated 7.15 here but that was a struggle.

This. Father Christmas brings small stuff that keeps them entertained until everyone else is up.

When I was a kid, mum and dad would tell us to bugger off so we would go into granny's room at 5am and open them with her. She was always pleased to see us

Used to be from 5:30am. Managed to negotiate down to 7am. Now it's 8am. They're 16,19 and 23! 😂

Any time from 6 here , although my two have always slept til this time on Xmas day anyway somehow! (They normally wake at 6 anyway)

It's Christmas! It's exciting! When one is up, everybody is up. We have no rule.

I was always expected to be shaken off my bed at 5am, and in reality, it never happens. One Christmas I didn't hear a pip from anyone until long past 9am, I was fuming to have somehow woken up first! It helps that kids are not sent to bed early in the holiday, so they just sleep, toddler included.

Some years it might be 7, other years much later. I like to be in my own home, so we don't have to follow anyone strict rule and we are having a much nicer day. Lunchtime will vary a lot depending on the time we all have breakfast .

I think the problem is me being excited really, I have been known to be up and waiting for dd to wake up in previous years. I must be the only person who feels fortunate that their child now wakes up earlier!

6am in our house. Only day of the year our teenagers leap out of bed!

Just me and ds (20) here.

He doesn't have a stocking anymore (his choice!).

We are usually up at 4am - he's a swimmer.

I don't care what time he gets up xmas day - but I'm usually up and waiting for him!

I've them warned not until 7.30ish. I don't really do stockings so it's Santa toys under the tree that they want

As soon as they're awake which is ridiculously early. Stockings are just full of wee things though. Main presents need to wait until a bit later but we're not too strict. Our kids are early risers and there's no way we would wake until grandad is awake at midday...

No limits, but I am an early riser, so usually up well before them anyway. I don't think Christmas is about adults having a lie in, kids are far too excited for that

We don't have a strict rule but majority of our house are fairly early risers anyway so it's when they are up and then when we have managed to awaken the grumpy teenagers in our house. We tend to open stockings downstairs in the living room straight away all at once by about 6:30am.

Then we all freshen up a bit but still stay in the Christmas PJS and have a breakfast and open main presents by about 7:30ish! That takes absolutely ages and after that we spend time together and get ready for Christmas dinner.

We woke the teenagers at 10 last year 😂
This year they're at their other house with young step sibling so they're expecting around 7am 😂

Anytime after 4:30 and I’m happy to get up. It’s one day a year, I don’t mind our routine going out the window a bit.

I’ve just negotiated with my dds to PLEASE be up early for stockings tomorrow and NOT to lie in bed until 11am as we have family coming and I don’t want them to be rushing through them in front of guests. They’re 19 and 20 😄.

When they were little I think the rule was no earlier than 7am - they would bring them into our room and open them on our bed. Tree presents were / are always much later, usually after a late lunch.

Here stocking is put in their bedroom at 6am when the dog wakes me, (6am - every day), they open it when they wake. But they are 22 and 24 now, so may be dragged from their pits round lunchtime.

7am, but that's the normal time they're allowed to get up anyway. They're 5 & 2.

Anytime from around 7.30 onwards (my DC like to sleep!).