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Father Christmas?
What do you ladies do about Father Christmas? Do you tell your los he is real, do you tell them otherwise? How do you deal with this. I was raised without and told from the start that he wasn't real but my dh family is really big on Father Christmas and goes well out of their way to make it real. I sometimes worry I am giving really mixed messages to my children.
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I do think though that you need to be aware of not letting them believe too old. My step brother believed until he was about 10 and being older I was really teased him about it (prob was a bit mean but thats what siblings do!) and made him feel a bit stupid for it!
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It was the same for me Hedgie. My mum hates all that stuff (she actually told me and my sister Santa didnt exist - we cried! - I was 11 for the record) but my dad gets really into it, putting out mince pies, a glass of brandy and carrot for the reindeer. And leaving crumbs and a letter from Father christmas. He'd come down in the morning and say "God, he's a messy eater, that santa!". Our family love it. He still pretends I believe in santa & I'm 20!
My mum stopped believing when she was 5. Her parents took her to see Santa for the 2nd year, and she said "Father Christmas doesn't exist because that one has different boots to the one last year."
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the only thing i'm confused about is how do you know which sort of pressies come from santa and which are from mummy and daddy?
lol i've even bought special paper saying 'delivered from the north pole' for his santa gifts! too little to understand now but be lovely for his memories when he sees the photos! x
For me and dh, stocking presents were from father christmas, other presents are from parents etc, so will keep this for lo. My dh wants to buy a father christmas outfit for future years!
I so can't wait for Christmas! It'll be great to start our own little family traditions.
We going to order a letter from santa online, you can get a reply themed on babys first xmas which was lovely and will be put in Charlie's keeping box, this will be done every year so that he has a collection of letters!
We don't have a fireplace in our current house so when charlie is older we will tell him that santa has a magic key to open the back door then we will put some footprints in the kitchen.
We have bought charlie one 'big' present from santa and then his stocking fillers from santa too. But we will tell charlie that santa bought his present from mummy and daddy. Its a tradition on my hubbies side that he wanted to carry on. Basically we asked santa to get the present for us. I think thats how it worked lol. xx
The way i knew my presents where from my parents was they told me they went to meetings with father christmas where the three of them decided what i would be getting. I was always very disappointed that i wasnt allowed to go to a meeting with father christmas. Now i look back im pretty sure these meetings took place on a thursday night lol. We are going to tell frankie the same thing.
For them, the stocking presents are the ones from him and they get to open them straight away and eveything else get is from me or nanny & grandad etc.
My friends kids were told that all the presents came from Father Christmas