What do you do on New Year’s Eve with children

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They go to bed. We stay up, drink champagne and cook something special.

We have a family party in the house for Hogmanay.

Children are fully included and can go to bed if they get tired or stay for the Bells.

Yep always been the process on Hogmanay.

Our children are 1 and 2 so providing they play ball and stay asleep at bedtime, I do a buffet for me and my partner with loads of M&S goodies and we have Prosecco and watch either a TV special or a film. I really love it actually, sometimes we might even go rogue and stay up until midnight 😀

Nothing, it's just another day.

Under 7-8 they went to bed by 8-9pm. DH and I stayed in, and saw in the New Year together.

Between 9 or so, and 17-18, they stayed up with us.

After that, they went out with their mates.

No-one is going to be babysitting anyone's children on New Year's Eve.

He’s always joined us doing whatever it is we’re doing!

We have our own party at home, playing board games and setting off fireworks. Kids get to stay up if they want to - DD has stayed up since she was 4, DS I think first stayed up at 6. Sometimes we do traditional fortune telling with melted tin.

We mark New Year's Day rather than the Eve. Basically a second Christmas Day, with some chat about last year/next year.

We do watch the fireworks if still up.

I have never been that fussed for NYE.

What is traditional fortune telling with melted tin? Sounds exciting!

Just me and my son for many New Years Eve's and no matter his age we may go to a party at a friends ,or staying in we have had various ways to enjoy the evening and make it special: mini chocolate fondue (was in his stocking one year), hootananny, watch new year coming in all evening around the world, mini bonfire and marshmallows, dancing in the kitchen and make pretend mulled cider, takeaway, film, blessing the house (basically waving an incense stick in every room and asking the house to keep us safe and warm for the following year)

Just lighthearted bits of fun.

When DS was little and we lived in a village, we always went to a party at friends’, with loads of children dancing and running around and sleeping under the table. Now we either host ourselves, or go to family.

We go away as a big family group for new years. Started when dhs eldest sibling became a parent and nye became different to what they were used to. As all the other siblings started having children the group got bigger and now we all go and there are even some little grandchildren coming along.
nye starts with a walk somewhere and a pub lunch followed by a buffet in the evening, games and then music and dancing, we’ve celebrated a few new years on the beach in a few properties where we’ve had our own private access directly from the beach.
It’s my kids favourite holiday of the year without fail every year, hanging out with their cousins (all now mostly in their mid 20’s now), aunts and uncles and now the little ones. It’s very heartwarming and restorative!

5-7 she’d stay up a bit late, maybe until 9pm ish, it then got later and later, now age 10 she stays up, ring in the new year then we all go to bed.
Our village sports club has a NYE party that children are welcome at so we spend the night there with friends, leave around 11:45 to watch the countdown at home with champagne (warm milk for her 😄)

Its molybdomancy, basically you melt tin (used to be a mix of lead and tin but then the EU banned lead) then you pour it into a bowl of cold water and look at what shape it forms.

Youngest goes to bed (he’s 8). 13 year old has stayed up with us the past couple years. We have snacks and watch Jools Holland and I try to stay awake til midnight. I don’t drink, but Dh might have a couple drinks. We have a little toast with something fizzy and alcohol free at midnight. Watch fireworks. I open the door and let the old year out and new one in and then we are in bed by 12:30.