The Santa Topic... *possible spoilers*

Laurelin

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My parents were so good at the Santa gig. I don't remember ever being told he didn't exist. I just kind of figured it out and I didn't want to ask. I played along with my sisters too.
 

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I'm TOTALLY doing the 'if you're naughty we won't get a tree' thing. I love having a Christmas tree, I hate when the kids play with the ornaments and I find them disassembled all over the house. So I made a deal with them, we're putting the tree up this week end, but if they play with the ornaments even once, it's going back in the box, and we won't have a tree this year. They broke a couple ornaments last year too.
 

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I'm TOTALLY doing the 'if you're naughty we won't get a tree' thing. I love having a Christmas tree, I hate when the kids play with the ornaments and I find them disassembled all over the house. So I made a deal with them, we're putting the tree up this week end, but if they play with the ornaments even once, it's going back in the box, and we won't have a tree this year. They broke a couple ornaments last year too.
Well if you're actually planning on taking the tree down it works. I think most parents who say that use it as an empty threat.

Also, instead of hanging glass/ceramic ornaments, you could stick to stuffed/kid friendly ornaments, or display your holiday cards in the tree.
 

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Well if you're actually planning on taking the tree down it works. I think most parents who say that use it as an empty threat.

Also, instead of hanging glass/ceramic ornaments, you could stick to stuffed/kid friendly ornaments, or display your holiday cards in the tree.
Or, you can do what I used to do when my dogs were puppies: don't hang anything low enough where they can be reached!

You could always hang soft/stuffed ornaments closer to the bottom of the tree, and everything delicate up towards the top.
 

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We have been quite creative with the whole twin devi....er girls and oohhhhhhhhhhh pretty lights.


Plastic ornaments are the shizznick. all the pretty of glass , cheap and the bounce.

the first year they where mobile , we only put the branches on the upper half of the tree , it looked like we had a super long trunk on a little tree. hilarlious but we also learned about the plastic ornaments at the after christmas sale and got them for last year , and it was perfect.
 

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Last year was the first year since kids that we actually put up a tree. It was just not worth it before... my kids get into EVERYTHING.
 

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Or you could do handmade ornaments. We have tons of handmade ornaments on the tree lol. if they get broken... oh well. They can be remade and they are fun. We have about half and half... half our ornaments are from Disney world or special ones that were given to us and half handmade ones. We have salt dough ornaments, plastic balls from michaels that we paper mache'd with tissue paper, popsicle stick christmas trees, rudolph made from clothes pins, etc etc :)
 

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Do people really threaten to not have Christmas if their kids are bad or don't do certain stuff?

When I say I'm going to use the naughty/nice thing I mean I'm going to remind my kid "santa is watching" and good behavior gets rewarded and give them opportunities to have good behavior noticed - like a letter from "Santa" saying how it was nice that they've been sharing so well at school or something.

Not like "if you don't quit whining we're not getting a Christmas tree and SANTA ISN'T COMING TO OUR HOUSE THIS YEAR." People are INSANE.
YES. I hear parents say it all the time... Empty threats, I hate it :mad:
"If you're bad at school you're not getting ANY presents this year! Only a lump of coal!" Child gets suspended for fighting and hurting other children... gets new laptop and bike for Christmas, among other things. >.<

"If you say that one more time, you're not getting your lalaloopsy doll from Santa!" Child says it 10 more times.... gets TWO of them for Christmas :rofl1:

oh my list could go on and on... :p
 

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My parents were good about the santa thing. Actually, I'm more impressed that all my older siblings were able to play along, too :p

They'd respond to the letters we wrote to santa, and would stay up super late on Christmas Eve waiting for us to go to bed, so that they could put our santa presents under the tree. We got the threats though too - my mom would always pick up the phone and be like "I'm calling santa..."

I think I was 7ish when I realized he wasn't real? Me and my brother were up really early one Easter morning, and he caught my sister in the backyard hiding Easter eggs and decided to share that information with me. From there, I was in a state of horror as I realized everything else was a lie too! :yikes:
 

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I still get 'From santa' gifts from my dad. He'll pick the big one and put his name on it but he will write 'From Santa' on all the rest. And I'm 26 now, lol. But it does explain why 'Santa' would always get me guns and fishing poles and bows. My dad desperately wanted a hunting buddy.

'Oh look, santa got me a shotgun!'
 

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I don't remember believing in Santa. I do remember waking up Christmas Eve and going downstairs to see if the presents had been put out yet. They had been, and my dad had gone back to bed after setting them up. Right underneath the tree with a stocking still in his hand. lol
 

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Oddly enough, I stopped believing in the easter bunny and tooth fairy (both of which my mom did) years before I stopped believing in Santa.

I just figured santa was real and parents went kind of overboard with the other holidays because santa was so much fun.
 

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Oddly enough, I stopped believing in the easter bunny and tooth fairy (both of which my mom did) years before I stopped believing in Santa.

I just figured santa was real and parents went kind of overboard with the other holidays because santa was so much fun.
Same!

I also was ruined by the Easter bunny because I caught my mom hiding Easter eggs out back, LOL. But for some reason, I never doubted Santa.
 

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My older sister and I were brought up believing in santa, and I loved it :p
Although honestly, it totally weirded me out that a stranger came into my house in the middle of the night.

With my younger sister I was the one wrapping presents, hiding them under the tree, and playing along. That was a test in patience, let me tell you. She always had a bunch of presents from Santa and my older sister and I just had a couple small things because my mom is poor and my little sister was the only one who believed in Santa.

Every year she'd make a big deal about how she got so many presents and we didn't neener neener! Holy cow did I ever want to just shake her and be like "NO! That's not how it worked, we didn't get presents because MOM spent all her Christmas money on you, ya TWERP!" It's pretty much a miracle that that never happened, lol.
 

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I still get 'From santa' gifts from my dad. He'll pick the big one and put his name on it but he will write 'From Santa' on all the rest. And I'm 26 now, lol. But it does explain why 'Santa' would always get me guns and fishing poles and bows. My dad desperately wanted a hunting buddy.

'Oh look, santa got me a shotgun!'
We still do "From Santa" gifts too. I was just talking to my mom about this and I said something about "You still sign half my presents from Santa... and from Voldemort."
Mom: Did I sign one from Voldemort??
Me: Well a few years back you signed one from You-Know-Who.
Mom: ...I don't think Voldemort is what I meant.
Me: Then don't sign it from You-Know-Who!!
 
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Despite my mom trying to share the joy that is believing in Santa, I NEVER did. I distinctly remember my older brother teasing me when I was 3 years old that "Santa's real!" (god knows WHY that got under my skin, but it did) and me screaming back that he wasn't.

My parents still left gifts from Santa under the tree and I would actually play like I thought it was all real, figuring it would make them happy. We still do the Santa gifts thing as sort of a cute Christmas tradition I guess.

If I ever have kids, I'd probably make Santa gifts and leave it up to them to figure out if it's real or not. If they ask me if he's real, I'd just do like my dad and ask them what they think and go with that.
 

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We still do "From Santa" gifts too. I was just talking to my mom about this and I said something about "You still sign half my presents from Santa... and from Voldemort."
Mom: Did I sign one from Voldemort??
Me: Well a few years back you signed one from You-Know-Who.
Mom: ...I don't think Voldemort is what I meant.
Me: Then don't sign it from You-Know-Who!!
:rofl1:

These days I sometimes wrap presents for myself, or my parents will have a pile of wrapped presents for me and tell me "there. Those are yours. Put tags on them." And I always, always have to write "from santa" on some of them :p
 

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