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Hi. I was just wondering if people give gifts to their kids that say from Santa but also have a few that say from Mom and Dad?? I never had this as a kid and never asked why mom and dad didn't give me gifts, but someone else told me that their parents always gave them gifts from them when they still believed in Santa.
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I have always had it done this way growing up and still do to this day and I am married with kids LOL. It's just how it was growing up and now my DH and I do the same. I can remember 1 year as a teen that my folks didn't do this and I was actually upset. Lets just say that it never happened again LOL!!;) I'm glad that my DH and I have continued this tradtion with our kids. :)
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At our house Santa fills up their stockings and brings one or two other presents, the rest are from mom and dad. That's how DH and I grew up, and it makes sense to me that mom and dad would give most of the gifts because Santa has to give gifts to all the kids around the world, so he doesn't have room in his sleigh for more than that per child. :D

 

I had to add, Santa wraps the gifts at our house before he leaves them.

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Our kids get one (occassionally two) presents from Santa that are wrapped. The rest are from mom and dad. It was that way for me growing up, so I carried it on. My parents did it that way because with 4 kids, presents add up! If one year was tight, they can say mom and dad didn't have enough money to buy alot, you can't blame Santa for being broke, it makes more sense for mom and dad to be broke.
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We do from both. The highly requested gift is from us.(I want the credit:p ) along with a few others and the clothes.

My parents always did from both also...It would seem odd if Mom and Dad didn't give presents to the kids.

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Same here. Some gifts are from Santa, some from us. It would be weird if no presents were from mom and dad. My parents did it this way, so I do too. It just makes sense. All gifts are wrapped at our house. I try to wrap all the gifts from Santa in 1 or 2 rolls of paper that is the same, but I don't think the kids even notice or care.

 

Elena

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One year when I was much younger, I went shopping the day after Christmas and saw a little girl all dressed up, a doll in one hand a barbie in the other. She was whining for a toy she saw. I heard her daddy say but honey you got a whole bunch of new toys yeasterday. The little girl replied but daddy those were all from Santa you didn't get me anything. I felt sorry for the dad because I sure he and his wife worked hard to give her a special Christmas but she did not know it.
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Yes we give from both Santa and ourselves. We give several gifts and Santa gives THE BIG GIFT, usually just one. If it has gadgets that go with it they are in the stocking. Depending on the gift but now that the boys are 13 and will be 16 for Christmas, Santa wraps his gifts. Snoopy little poops around here! :gdparanoid: This year it is only a gift from Santa and Mom and Dad as the must have's are rather pricey. There will be the 1 gift from Santa and Mom and Dad as the do work together ;), 1 too big for the stocking under the tree and their stocking. :eyepoppin Of course they will have some from grandparents and aunts and uncles.
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DH grew up all santa, I grew up with one present from parents only, no santa... we had to make a decision so ....

 

We did all santa too. Now only the youngest (DS8) still believes. We only had one kid out of the 4 oldest that ever asked "why didn't you get us something". We simply told him that money is hard to come by and the spirit of Christmas is giving, not receiving. So we explained that as a family we bought gifts for those outside of our home, grandma, aunt, etc. because that is what Jesus would have us do. He was totally okay with that and we followed it up with that because we were doing the right thing Santa brings him more than he brings kids from families that mommy and daddy buy gifts for the kids. And that because he was so generous with others without thinking of himself that others were generous with him and it worked out well because grandpa later that Christmas day gave him his "must have" gift.

 

He believed for 2 more years and never was unhappy or asked again. None of the tags that are within our home have a "from" on them, just a name written on the tag for who it is to.

 

For those that want the "credit"... that is great and I understand, yet one day they won't believe but they'll have those memories and they will know it was you.... don't worry, they don't forget and we've had two (DD13, DS11) come to us after they announced not believing and telling us that if we couldn't really afford the nice gifts anymore that they would understand..... to which I act shocked and tell them I never bought them a thing, that santa brings it.... they roll their eyes, but they know....

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We always put the Santa present ( the expensive thing they most wanted) unwrapped and under the tree. I always fill the stockings so full that I can't leave them hanging on the mantle so I lay them on top or beside the Santa present because they sre from Santa too. The rest of the gifts are from me or their siblings. They are all grown and married except for my 9 year old that still gets the gifts the same way even though he knows that I am the Santa! He still leaves out the cookies and diet coke for " Santa". ( when they still believed , I had to pour the milk out, can't stand it but as soon as they knew it was for me, they put out my soda!)
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We do one gift from Santa [after all he has to give presents to a lot of kids ;) ] and the rest of the gifts come from family.

I love to see the look on my kids' faces when I open a present from them. It is the best feeling to see how happy they are when they make someone else happy.

 

I do love all of my macaroni necklaces and snowman paperweights!

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Our kids have all outgrown Santa now, the youngest is 8 :( . Makes me kinda sad, but their Dad always hated giving ANY credit to Santa. So what we did was give them 3 items each from Santa (ALWAYS the ones that were very hard to wrap, so we didn't wrap these) :D . And the rest were from Mom and Dad. :yup:
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