what presents does Santa bring to your children?

VK-2008

ok i am prob just a big kid but Santa delivers all the presents and gets them all. i never questioned why my parents never gave me a gift but on xmas day all the presents were under tree and my parents had their presents under it too.
i dont mean to offend anyone but why do your kids need to know that you got them something, there is something magical about a child believing in santa and on xmas day when he delivers all the gifts it pure joy to watch the kids open the gifts.

dh and i dont have kids yet but are wanting them, and when we do have them i will be sure to let them know that santa bought each and every present for them from him


MERRY XMAS everyone!!!

Apricot

balletshoes wrote: »

I suspect my DD isn't really decided on whether Santa is real or not (and I know she has friends who have told her he doesn't exist) but if she asks me the question outright, I intend just asking her what she thinks and believes, because thats whats important.

I can remember when I started thinking that santa wasn't real and I told my mum. She told me if I didn't believe then I wouldn't get any presents so I convinced myself to believe "for one more night"! I think I was about 9 at the time.

All our presents were off santa when we were younger, a stocking at the end of the bed that we could open straightaway and all our other presents were downstairs which we had to wait for my mum to come down to open.
I don't remember every worrying that my parents didn't buy me presents, I was too excited about all the things that I had got.

Loopy_Girl

jenhug wrote: »

in our house, santa brings most of the presents, we give a few presents, ie one year we brought them a wii and everything else came from santa.
santa gives their gifts in colour coordinated paper, ie one child will have all red paper and one will have all gold, its totally different from the rest of the wrapping paper in the house, and santa only comes until the christmas after your tenth birthday, when santa stops as he has to make time for all the new babies born. we have no chimney, so we hang a magic key on our wreath on the door on christmas eve, santa uses it to let himself in, then he hangs it on the tree when he is done!
The reindeer have carrots, and one of them always seems to drop a piece on the front garden, clumsy things!

Awww...what a wonderful story

(reindeer here always never seem to manage a full carrot "it's cos they are so full as all the children leave them carrots";))

Loopy_Girl

Apricot wrote: »

I don't remember every worrying that my parents didn't buy me presents, I was too excited about all the things that I had got.

To be fair it did throw me...damn me for having such a switched on child!!!:rotfl:

In fairness, it is logical I suppose...she saw me handing gifts out left right and centre and there wasn't one coming her way!!

As I say, it's no biggie....a teeny tiny token gift is given to her (so she would have been getting it anyway!!) as she likes to exchange our presents to each other whilst I am ramming some caffeine down my neck and before she opens all her Santa ones.

pinkclouds

pegginout wrote: »

My son has written his list. I have bought everything he asked for but I am wondering if you guys say its all off santa or off you as parents?

Everything is from us and always will be. Gifts have to be bought and paid for. That's why rich kids get more and poor kids get less - unless you believe rich kids are somehow more "good" than poor kids.

JC9297 wrote: »

Santa is not a religious figure...... but the whole Christmas thing is pretty Christian!

St Nicholas *is* a religious figure. He was the Bishop of Myra and a well known gift giver. His name, Santa Claus, comes to us via the Anglicisation of the the contraction Sinterklaas. I have no problem with all the various Christmas stories. And, whether you are religious or not, there is no harm in telling kids about the good saint - he was a verifiable "real" human being and, by various accounts, a good and kind man.

Spendless

My kids have never asked about 'the presents I buy for other people' because they have never seen me buy them. i don't take them Christmas shopping with me, wrap when they are not about, hide and deliver when they're not with me.

Loopy_Girl

Lucky you having a luxury of time to do that.

As a lone parent I have to manage my time quite effectively.

Plus it is of course giving a life lesson that you think of other and Christmas isn't all about being a kid and how many presents you get.

And damn me for having a welcoming home where people can come and share time together and get given a gift. Only Santa does all the 'delivering' in our house.

snowdrop1967

We are another family who gives Santa some pennies to buy all the presents, that way they appreciate that they wont get everything on their long lists. I dont think it has done them any harm, they know that some friends might get more or less at xmas and know that Santa cant afford to buy everything for everyone.

Spendless

Loopy_Girl wrote: »

Lucky you having a luxury of time to do that.

As a lone parent I have to manage my time quite effectively.

Plus it is of course giving a life lesson that you think of other and Christmas isn't all about being a kid and how many presents you get.

And damn me for having a welcoming home where people can come and share time together and get given a gift. Only Santa does all the 'delivering' in our house.

Eh?? I was giving a reason why mine don't ask. Not being judmental about time management. I shop when they are at school or at home with their Dad. Wrap when they are asleep and deliver before they break up for Xmas hols. You seem to think I have had a go at you ...where???!! But you've had a go at me over something I've not even said!

delerium

Santa brings all the presents from DH and I bar one which we label from us. It was the same when I was growing up. DD is only 4 so if there are issues with lists as she grows up we'll deal with it then. As it happens I had bought all her presents before she wrote her letter (or dictated) and I am obviously a well tuned mom as she only wanted what I had already got her (I was well impressed with myself).

My biggest issue was that she is getting well into Sarah Jane adventures and the toys have been off the market for some time. I was lucky to get the sonic lipstick from ebay at an extortionate price. Last year she wanted "supercat" and we had no idea (it turned out to be her imaginary friend), we got her Disney's Marie and told her that Santa didn't always know what the presents people asked for were.

I am loving the very thoughtful traditions of some people on here about going and buying a present for a less fortunate child and I will be pinching that idea for future years, as I believe it reinforces that not everyone is as fortunate as others, something which we have had to work on with our lo anyway since we may not want for much but are not the norm in the area we live in. In fact DD has now started asking if she can buy things for her friends at nursery because she can afford it and they can't.....