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What age did your DSC stop believing in the Easter bunny?

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Navigatingthroughlife · 09/04/2023 23:02

I feel I’ve had a step parenting fail!

I was watching a video on Instagram where a mum spoke about slipping up in front of her three year old about the Easter bunny. My 11 year old DSS was next to me and and DSD told me her brother still believed in the Easter bunny! I feel awful and honestly didn’t think he would still believe!!

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Slimjimtobe · 09/04/2023 23:05

11 years old hardly believe. My nearly ten year old laughed today when he saw the Aldi wrappers to the eggs and said ‘ah the Easter Bunny must have taken them out of the wrappers’

I do not believe that he believes this but wanted to play along

Luredbyapomegranate · 09/04/2023 23:05

Erm, they’ve never believed in it, we’ve never talked about it - I don’t think I know anyone who has.

So you haven’t. And I don’t really think your DSS can think that - you wouldn’t believe in Fr C at 11 would you?

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Navigatingthroughlife · 09/04/2023 23:06

I agree with both of you so thanks for making me feel better. I don’t have kids of my own and my parents never done that for me. Guess I wasn’t from that generation but I felt awful initially 😂

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dementedpixie · 09/04/2023 23:06

We never really 'did' the Easter bunny tbh so mine didn't ever believe it was real

Slimjimtobe · 09/04/2023 23:09

My child is fairly innocent and but we all know he knows (from the type of questions he asks about literally everything)

but it’s nice to keep the magic (at 11 though I wouldn’t as they are due to start secondary)

Allmyghosts · 09/04/2023 23:10

I feel like I have somehow missed something when people are going on about the easter bunny, I mean what is even the story? Is there a story? It's not a thing I have ever heard until this year Confused

TheVanguardSix · 09/04/2023 23:11

Mine never believed. I stuck with Father Christmas. That was enough work! The Easter Bunny never showed up. I’ve always gone all out with the baskets and sweets though. Easter is much for significantly religious to me than Christmas so I do focus on that aspect of it entirely. It is a very Holy period for us.

TheVanguardSix · 09/04/2023 23:12

much more not for.

Cuppaand2biscuits · 09/04/2023 23:13

I don't think mine have ever believed in the Easter Bunny.

TrashyPanda · 09/04/2023 23:14

Never known any kids who believe in it.

Easter eggs are given by family members.

QueSyrahSyrah · 09/04/2023 23:15

I don't think I ever believed in the Easter bunny. I got eggs at Easter but I knew they were from my family. Easter egg hunts were just a fun way to find them and the Easter Bunny was just a motif for Easter.

Purplecatshopaholic · 09/04/2023 23:15

Believing in an Easter Bunny is a thing now?

Hardbackwriter · 09/04/2023 23:16

I honestly didn't know that anyone taught their children to believe in it in the way they do Father Christmas. I thought that it was accepted from the off that the Easter Bunny is a fictional character rather than the actual source of eggs.

OhMyCherriePie · 09/04/2023 23:17

We’ve never done the Easter bunny (don’t have step kids though but haven’t done it with mine)

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Navigatingthroughlife · 09/04/2023 23:36

Thank you guys this has made me not feel like the wicked step mother 😂

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LuluBlakey1 · 09/04/2023 23:38

No Easter Bunny here. Easter eggs are gifts from Granny and Grandad or me and DH.
They know the Easter story though from school and they went to church with DH, MIL and FIL today.

ParistoMilan · 09/04/2023 23:45

Dd7 is the youngest and loves all things mystical and make believe. We play along because we know she enjoys it and it's a nice thing to do but she has told us several times that the Easter bunny is you. Easter bunny isn't something that I'd expect any kid to have a full Santa type belief in. We'd never say it but even at 7&9 they both know it's me.

11 y6 or 11y7? Either way, if they've any sense they know but think they won't get the same.

DelurkingAJ · 09/04/2023 23:50

We’re guilty of the Easter Bunny leaving the Easter egg hunt (one big egg from us as parents then a handful of small ones hidden around the house). It was a ruse to force the DSs to go for a walk on Easter Sunday when they were tiny. DS1 (10) has known for years but DS2 (7) clearly doesn’t (to my confusion and we had the whole charade again today). By 11 he will know, I’m sure…at least I blooming hope so! So I think you’ve not been awful at all.

jaqueandjill · 09/04/2023 23:52

I think your DSD is having you on 😂

Children don't believe in the Easter bunny do they? Certainly not at 11 anyway

converseandjeans · 09/04/2023 23:55

We've never done an Easter bunny. Husband and children are Catholic and Good Friday mass is quite sombre. So it's always been a religious festival in our house. We do an egg hunt but it's always just for fun. I think Easter bunny is maybe an American import?

gogohmm · 10/04/2023 00:00

What is the Easter bunny other than a marketing tool? I've always handed my kids eggs

Thelastofbus · 10/04/2023 00:07

Sorry but I find it slightly ridiculous that any nt child over the age of 5 could possibly believe in the Easter bunny?!! I mean what even is the Easter bunny? A regular sized rabbit with a big basket of chocolate eggs? Where do the eggs come From? How does it Carry the basket? Why is a bunny leaving eggs anyway?

NewNameNigel · 10/04/2023 00:09

I has a full on conversation about the Easter bunny with 14 and15 year old DSCs this morning but I think they were humouring me 😂

Schmutter · 10/04/2023 00:11

What even is the Easter Bunny? I’ve never known it to be a ‘thing’.

mahrezzy · 10/04/2023 00:12

My 4 year old utterly believes in the Easter Bunny.