What to tell 4yr old, SANTA!

Spendless

Mine were delivered by Santa but us and the relatives whose names appear on the gift tags paid the bill from him.

You might want to consider if they have any older cousins and what they are told, because my sister told a different story to me when we have very similar aged kids, leaving my mum not knowing which version she was suppossed to remember.

Bella79

I think my mum and dad told me they brought some and sent them to santa, and santa bought some too, and gifts from everyone else where from them. I never questioned it, but my lo is so forward and questions everything ! lol

globalds

I feel only slightly bad about it , but we never told the kids Santa bought them presents.

If I can do a bit of thread pinching and ask people if you would also add in your post at what age you told them that the presents were from you ?

Luciferswench

Santa brings everything so my children dont have to thank me, my mum fetches up the stuff that santa left at hers for them too so they dont even thank her either. Oh my children sound ungrateful terrors but they arent. The eldest thanks grandma as hes nearly 13 so doesnt believe but the other two still believe. I dont need thanks the look on their faces is enough.

Teerah

scottishchick27 wrote: »

In our house Santa brings the presents but DD doesn't thank us for them, all presents from friends and relative are from them so she has to thank them.

Same in our house. MIL wanted presents in her house to be from Santa too but I felt that would start to cause confusion, not to mention my son would start to expect Santa to be leaving presents for him in every relative's house. I dont want thanks from him for his presents but I do want him to thank others and this teaches him that everything he gets is not from some unseen magical figure

Aimless

In this house, Santa did the stocking (with little bits plus one main present in) and I bought the rest. After killing myself getting exactly what he wanted, why should Santa take all the credit? I certainly wouldn't suggest other people's presents were from him. This also helps with the 'but Santa's magic so why can't I have x, y and z from him?' problem. The only issue I had one year was with him wanting an old toy that wasn't on sale any more (pre Ebay days I think?) but I found one!

We also managed to keep Santa going to quite a late age, I remember one year he said 'some people say it's your Mum and Dad who do the presents' to which I answered very quickly, 'how on earth would Daddy get into our house'. And he believed it.

meritaten

I went with the 'presents from 'so and so' are sent to santa to deliver but 'so and so' bought them. but there is ALWAYS one present from santa as he gives every child one pressie! my dd caught me out on this one after her primary school did the shoebox appeal for children who didnt have a present at christmas! she said 'but mum, every child has one present from santa'! I couldnt think of a reply to that!

balletshoes

I've been using avoidance tactics on the old "is Santa real" question for the last year (my DD is 10). I don't think she believes anymore, and thats okay, because I think she did up til the beginning of this year. She has said things like "so-and-so at school says its Mum and Dad" to which I say "what do you think?". She hasn't yet wanted to say out loud to me that she doesn't believe in Santa. The thing is, her best friends come from practising Muslim families who don't have Santa, so she knows that different people believe different things.

pigpen

Santa brings the under the tree presents..
presents at other peoples houses are from them..
and presents from you and dad are from you and dad..

simples!

And if you dont believe in Santa.. you most likely wont get any presents!

mumto2loves

when my dd (now 8) said last year that she'd been told 'its just mum and dad' i replied maybe her friends had said that because they don't actually get a stocking from santa, because they wouldn't get one if they don't believe would they!;) she decided then that she would believe.:) this theory of mine (if you don't believe you don't get) will go on until she leaves home:D