Santa and other gifts

[island1980]

Hi, brand new to mn 👋😊
What do you tell your dc about Xmas gifts from family? My dd is nearly 4 and previous years we said everything was from Santa.
Just wondered what everyone else does?

Stockings (which contain small, unwrapped gifts) are from Father Christmas. Anything else is from whoever bought it.

Stocking and one bigger present from Father Christmas, everything else from family.
We don’t get things out until they have gone to bed though so they think that Santa delivered all of the presents.

Stocking, a main "big" presents and some other presents from Santa. We also do a main "big" present from us as well as the majority of presents. They know who gifted what from family/friends

Only stocking is from Santa. Tree presents are from the people who gave them. I don't like the everything from Santa idea.

DD is 1 this December, but we will be doing stocking from Santa, other gifts from the givers.

I don't think it's fair to claim everything is from Santa (inc gifts from Aunts or grandparents) and I also want DD to say thank you to those who have bought her gifts

How ridiculous to claim a gift from an aunt/grandparent/friend is from Santa. You Have to say thank you to these people for giving gifts. It also stops Some of the unfairness around Santa giving tommy 20million presents and sally only getting one because it's all her parents could afford. Santa gives my kids a stocking and their main present. Other tree presents are from us/whoever sent them.

Similar to others. Stocking and one big gift from santa. We usually see family and friends to exchange presents and then put them under the tree so dc know who they are from.

What does it say about me that I keep reading this thread title as ‘Satan and other gifts’?

Stockings from Father Christmas, everything else from who it's from. We don't hide presents either. As soon as the tree is up in mid-December if we already have wrapped gifts they go under it and this is added to as and when things arrive from relatives in the post or we buy and wrap them.

Fortunately DH's and my families both always did it that way so we had no arguments about.ehich tradition to go with!
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Thanks all, that's very helpful and what I was thinking we would be doing from now on.

Just to put the minds at ease for those sending shocked responses, we always did thank the givers and they were fully on board with saying everything was from Santa in previous years when my DD was very young (we have a very small extended family).
But now my dd is getting older she would obviously be thanking everyone for their gifts herself as well as us.
We will now do a main gift and stocking from Santa, love this, thank you all 😊x

Gifts from people are always from the people that gift them, if someone took the time, effort and money to buy a gift it would be very rude to pass that off as someone elses work (regardless of made up status).

as for 'Santa' gifts everyone is different, we always had Santa gifts unwrapped out and ready to play with (our logic is Santa doesnt have time to wrap billions of presents + it saves time and stress of trying to set fiddly things up with hyperactive children running around)

I'm confused as to why you would want to?

One present from Santa that’s been requested in the letter and rest from whoever gives it. I had the same as a child and I think it makes it less traumatic when you find out about Father Christmas. If i thought not believing meant no presents at all I’d have been really upset!

My mum explained her reasoning for why only one present comes from Santa in a good way. My brother questioned the logistics of the sleigh at an early age, it was easier to swing him with “its one present per child and not all children celebrate Christmas etc” she also always told us that Santa couldn’t bring real animals because they’d be scared flying in the sleigh and he felt that was unfair to them. It worked well and I’ve told my daughter the same as she desperately wants another dog!

Father Christmas brings presents under the tree and some small bits and choc coins in stockings. Presents from family members e.g grandparents are from them. When kids stop believing in Father Christmas then mum and dad have to take over with the presents.