When did Easter Bunny, Santa, and/or Tooth Fairy stop visiting your DC?

[Anonymous]

My parents still send ME small Easter baskets from the bunny and small Christmas gifts from Santa, and I'm 42. It's nice. A sweet reminder that, though I'm an adult with a family, career and religious views of my own, there are still a few people out there in the world who remember me as a child full of wonder and belief. I'm thankful for it. As for my two kids (7 and 9), they are just in it for the candy. I think they figured it out long ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm really hoping this is the last year. DD is almost 9. Is either incredibly naive or realizes she has a good racket going. We will still give gifts, but this getting up at 2 am thing to sneakily leave the goodies has got to stop!

My daughter didn't officially not believe until she was 10. When she was 4, she stated her skepticism, and kept "wanting to believe" for the next 6 years. Shortly after she turned 10, she sat us down to have the talk. It was important to her that we reassured her that she would still get to *have* Santa and the Easter Bunny, even if she knew they were pretend. It's not so much about the gifts for her, as the fun of the magic. My child was on the late side of her friends when it came to being explicit about her non-belief.

I think you have at most another year or two at most.

[Anonymous]

Tooth Fairy is easy- when you stop loosing teeth.

Santa and Easter Bunny still visit our house and my kids are 14 and 16. My 14 yo daughter is very funny now, playing along like she still believes. Everyone has their own traditions so there is no right or wrong way to do it. But I think its more fun now that my kids don't believe because there's no stress of the secret stash being discovered. Being the Tooth Fairy was always so damn stressful to me, afraid of getting caught...

[Anonymous]

Easter Bunny visited my 34yo yesterday. It's all in good fun. Now if your DD truly believes in it, you may need to break that.

[Anonymous]

I'm the OP. She was so thrilled with the basket Sun morning that I didn't want to spoil it by asking probing questions. I can eke out one more year I guess. Thanks for all the advice and great stories!

[Anonymous]

I never confronted my parents about the "realness" of Santa or the Easter bunny. Why would I? My kids have never asked either, though you know they can't really believe it all. They WANT to believe it though, and the more magic we can give them, the better.

[Anonymous]

WTF are you all talking about?????

[Anonymous]

21 years old still gets a basket.

[Anonymous]

I feel sorry for your kids. You will look back and miss the magic. My daughter is 12 and didn't really know for sure until 11 but still plays along and has a blast with younger siblings.
She has said time and time again how fun all those years were.

So sick of parents trying to push their kids out of childhood to be their friends. Be a parent and stop being a selfish twit. A few nights a year you have to stay up until 2am and then you get excitement and pure happiness in the AM. Wait until your are up until 2am after a kid breaks curfew and blows you off the next morning. You will be begging for the days of innocence again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm really hoping this is the last year. DD is almost 9. Is either incredibly naive or realizes she has a good racket going. We will still give gifts, but this getting up at 2 am thing to sneakily leave the goodies has got to stop!

"Stop"?

I'm 45 and I still get gifts from "Santa". And somehow, the Easter Bunny always leaves way too much chocolate for our 12 and 16 year old to eat on their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for your kids. You will look back and miss the magic. My daughter is 12 and didn't really know for sure until 11 but still plays along and has a blast with younger siblings.
She has said time and time again how fun all those years were.

So sick of parents trying to push their kids out of childhood to be their friends. Be a parent and stop being a selfish twit. A few nights a year you have to stay up until 2am and then you get excitement and pure happiness in the AM. Wait until your are up until 2am after a kid breaks curfew and blows you off the next morning. You will be begging for the days of innocence again.

You have a very strange grasp of logic.

[Anonymous]

No tooth fairy, only the dentist nowadays. Kids are in high school and still get Easter baskets with little treats/cosmetic stuff. No recent mention of a bunny.

Santa is different. We still put out cookies and milk Christmas Eve, with only remnants left on Christmas morning. A dusting of spread by boots across the fireplace hearth. Some gifts still arrive from Santa. I'm sure the kids have their own views, but with Santa's existence, it's definitely "don't ask, don't tell" in our house!

[Anonymous]

That was, "A dusting of ashes spread by boots across the fireplace hearth..."

[Anonymous]

When the kids start hiding their teeth from the tooth fairy, she stops visiting. We state if she can't find it you don't get money. Kids make their chocies on money or truth ;-0

Easter bunny no one asks how baskets get to spring break locations.

Santa - as long as there are little kids around it's a don't ask don't tell. Big kids can help. Everyone gets gifts from santa - pets & parents included.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for your kids. You will look back and miss the magic. My daughter is 12 and didn't really know for sure until 11 but still plays along and has a blast with younger siblings.
She has said time and time again how fun all those years were.

So sick of parents trying to push their kids out of childhood to be their friends. Be a parent and stop being a selfish twit. A few nights a year you have to stay up until 2am and then you get excitement and pure happiness in the AM. Wait until your are up until 2am after a kid breaks curfew and blows you off the next morning. You will be begging for the days of innocence again.

You have a very strange grasp of logic.

Why?