Need help thinking up an excuse for Santa

Gingernutty

Due to the current economic climate, Santa can't afford cool presents and all the magic feed for the reindeer needed to power the sleigh. So he can't visit every kiddie at Christmas.

He's pre-delivered to certain parents and guardians and they'll put the presents out for Christmas Day. On his behalf.

seven-day-weekend

Oh what a tangled web we weave....just deliver them as usual and say nothing. If he asks about it you could say that Santa had left them early a he has too much to do on Christmas Eve. But if he doesn't say anything I wouldn't either.

jetplane

whitewing wrote: »

You could say to him that Santa phoned you, and is there anything that your son would like to tell you?

Then see how the conversation goes from there.

:rotfl: love this idea, I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face. Same as most people here we used to say that we bought the presents plus a couple of extra ones for poorer families, Santas elves collected them and Santa delivered the presents on xmas eve.

This also tackled the question of why some kids got more gifts than others especially when the naughty kids got more than the good children. Nowadays though once they get to school other children tell them there is no santa claus and the doubt sets in.

ciderwithrosie_2

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Oh what a tangled web we weave....just deliver them as usual and say nothing.

I'd go with this route too, but maybe wrap up the stuff now, then if he does go 'snooping' again and says something, you can pass it off as a bag of presents waiting to be given to other family/friends.

Meadows

At six I would have though he would be told where presents come from, as once they start school someone will say there is no such thing as Santa but you could try
'Santa can not pay for all the presents for all the children so mum's & dad's help him by getting some of them. He send the Elves around to all the houses in December to get the gift so him and his helpers can wrap them and deliver them on for Christmas day'?

bagpussbear

This happened to me once, although not with a whole bag, just one toy that I had put in the cupboard and mistakenly opened it when my son was in the room and he spotted it.

I said that I had got him that toy as Father Christmas was very busy and I wasn't sure if he could bring him everything he wanted. My son seemed to accept that quite easily.

However you have a whole bag so not sure you could use the same excuse! Its possible he might not remember every toy in the bag, so I'd just wrap them and if he queries it on xmas day say that Santa needed to check with you they were what he wanted and had left them overnight to take back to the elves the next day. Something like that?

dibuzz

I always told my kids that we bought the presents then sent them to Santa.

When I about 6 I was sleeping on a camp bed in my mum and dad's room on Christmas Eve because Nanny was in my bed and my dad knokced into the camp bed and woke me up. I saw all the presnts he was carrying and asked who they were for and my mum replied they were for my cousin's birthday.
It was only later (years later) that it struck me- my cousin's birthday is in May!

Seanymph

I got into this pickle with my children, once I worked out that as I gave them their presents from santa they wanted to know what I'd bought them - it was around the same age.

so, I told them that as they were now older, and there where so many younger babies in the world for santa to visit, he had let me know that he could only do a stocking for them, which he would always do - but the big presents he could only afford/have time to visit to the other really little children.

At 19 and 20 they are spending their second ever christmas with their father and he is primed by them that they have to have stockings from santa, the magic never goes.

It's not sustainable to have all gifts from santa - so, you do stockings from santa, gifts from parents.

FBaby

The reality is that he now knows (if he didn't before anyway) that santa doesn't exist. It doesn't matter though because kids think differently to us and he will make himself believe he still exists if that's what he wants to believe, or stop to do so if he has reached that stage where he doesn't nee the magic any longer.

I remember when my son was about 5 and he had seen the wrapping paper in the spare room, so on Christmas day, he said 'how funny mummy, Santa has the same wrapping paper than us'. He was clever enough to know the truth (and having a 3 year old sister finding it funny to make comments to draw suspicions to his mind) and he had no doubt worked it out by then, but he loved the magic of the fairy tell, so I said 'yes, it is amazing isn't it, that's because he ran out and came down here and wrapped them up in the house'. He chose to believe it because he liked to.

Kids are cleverer that way at a younger age nowadays, so most can pick up on all the inconsistencies that comes with the media, friends, shopping practices etc... but emotionally, they are still in fantasy world that means that they make themselves believe it all. That's the beauty of it.

So don't worry about whatever excuse you come up with. The wackiest one will be the one he will prefer, even if it is totally unrealistic.

picklekin

Maybe I was always a sceptic, but I never really believed in Santa, I just told my mum I did to keep HER happy. I was actually pleased when everyone decided to drop the lie.

I would just put the presents under the tree as usual, and say nothing about it.