Does Santa bring all your kids presents or only one?

[Bodenbabe]

In our house, the children write to Santa and ask for one thing, which he buys, and the rest of the kdis presents come from Mummy & Daddy. Is that weird? My DH used to have all presents from Santa and none (or at least a token one) from his parents, but I feel like my kids would wonder why Mummy & Daddy didn't buy them lots of presents but Father Xmas did! Would they not even notice or care? (Eldest is 6yo). This tradition isn't really set yet and I doubt DD would remember what happened last year, so I'm wondering whether to switch it to Santa bringing most of them. That way there is the "ooooh, look at the big sack full of presents!" element, without having to potentially explain why Mummy & Daddy's presents are in the same sack. I dunno, maybe I'm over-analysing this too much...!

He's 'Farmer X' in our house!! Starting last year when ds was 6, he wrote to FX and asked for 3 things, with pictures so FX knew what they were. 2 of them were quite small but the 3rd was 'a tv for my (DS') watrob (wardrobe)' with a picture of ds lying in his loft bed playing his ps2 on said tv!! - he didn't get one - although it made me smile for weeks - and again last week when I found last years letter!!

FX does bring some other things aswell as filling ds' stocking but his main present is usually split between my family and he knows it's from his family.

Thanks for replies everyone! It's not that I want the credit for it - I just wouldn't want the DCs to be sad, or to find it weird, that 'Nanny and Grandad have brought us presents but Mummy and Daddy haven't'.

We also did the Santa delivery system thing when I was little...

Chez Anxiety, we open presents from RL people on Christmas eve, and dispose of all the wrapping paper, etc., right after dinner. Makes it easy to keep track of who gave what for the purpose of thank yous. There's usually one gift from parents in the Christmas eve haul.

On Christmas morning at an ungodly hour Santa Claus gifts are all under the tree, unwrapped (I highly recommend this tradition ). Plus small stockings with candy left hanging up.

I think the idea of Santa Claus is to let DCs know that there's goodness in the universe, that they will be looked after, that someone loves them.

Presents from mummy & daddy,friends and family are under the tree. Santa Claus brings the stocking that you find by your bedroom door, and a sack with 'main' present in.

Problem is mummy and daddy presents this year don;t look quite as exciting

(and 'main' present doesn't mean the most expensive, but the one I know DD will go nuts about when she sees it)

Father Christmas is our delivery service, he asks us to pick up some of the kids presents for him as his elves can't make everything and then he delivers them to under the tree on xmas eve. He does usually leave them a pressie each though which is from him, we dont have stockings.

Oh and Father Christmas also splits the pressies so that the presents from each set of gparents are left under their trees as he knows that they will be there over xmas He even found us in Spain the year before last

Father Christmas leaves a stocking at the end of the DCs bed with loads of small pressies in for them (which I buy)
Their big present is from us and anything anyone else buys them is from them so we can thank them properly.

We buy the presents and Santa collects them and then delivers them at Christmas.

This explains why they can't have expensive things all the time and it also helped with DD who has a second christmas on Boxing Day when she goes to her dad's.

There are currently 2 bikes waiting to be collected, but Santa is a little busy at the moment (nowhere to put them!)

another one here where FC fills stocking of small things and other presents are under tree form us and anyine else.
out of interest what is wrong with saying SANTA??

Santa will bring one little gift to ds should he be a good boy and mommy and daddy will provide the rest. Santa has a lot of people to provide presents for. Ds will hopefully write a letter with everything on and mommy and daddy will have a chat with Santa to make sure everything is in readyness for his arrival.

I'm hoping that will work!

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Father Christmas brings the stockings and one gift(in special wrapping!)
The rest of the presents are from mummy and daddy, but FC delivers them!(I'm not sure how, have never been questioned!)

We even did muddy boot prints on the lounge floor last year

Santa brought the sacks /special pillowcases here still does and everything else from mum,dad,aunties,uncles and grandparents in fact my eldest is staying Christmas eve because she wants her pillow shes 18.
We also told them that we bought everything and sent it to Santa made it easier to buy when they were little plus we hate spoilt kids.

Father Christmas fills the stocking at the end of the bed (which in our house, as was the case for me as a child, is actually a pair of tights - looks silly but lovely and stretchy...). This has lots of little stockingy presents in and maybe a couple of more expensive ones. Main presents from Mum and Dad, and the rest of the family, go under the tree.

When writing a letter to Father Christmas we talk through small cheap presents that would be good in a stocking (top trumps card, small lego sets, bouncy balls, go-gos etc) and think of a couple of more expensive ideas that he might be able to have.

Father Christmas brings us stockings (we hang them at the end of the bed, they're filled by morning). All other presents are under the tree and from the giver.