Parents do you rap the gifts 'from Santa" if i dint will it spoil anything?
I have a soon to be 10 yr old and a soon to be three yr old
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im sure you could find time to do it, go to bed an hour later or do it now instead of talking about it on here.
Santa gifts are unwrapped at our house. We've always done it that way. It doesn't ruin the surprise at all. Unless of course they've already snooped and found out what they're getting!
it will spoil everytime
I remember when I was young, we would go into the Living Room Christmas day, and there would always be stuff for us from Santa that wasn't wrapped. It was a family tradition to have balloons everywhere on the tree.. My p... I mean Santa.. :) would write each of our names (all 5 kids) on a balloon and place it next to a small pile of unwrapped gifts.. It was so much fun to figure out whose pile was whose by checking out the balloons. Of course Santa always wrapped a few gifts for us as well.. It'll be fun.. Just don't worry.. :) That's not what Christmas is all about anyway.. :) Right?
Get off here and go do it!
I grew up and raise my kids the same way. Santa comes in the night, fills the stockings & leaves one unwrapped gift for each child on the floor. The rest of the presents under the tree are from mom and dad. It never ruined anything for me and my children don't have a problem with it. The only thing is changing tradition...if you've always wrapped them for your children, how will you explain the change.
I would definatly wrap them, I'm sure it would be more enjoyable for the kids. I'm in the same situation as you, and I am planning on wrapping on Christmas Eve. One of the best parts of Christmas in opening presents!
No, it will not spoil it for the kids. It is prettier of course and somewhat more exciting for the kids to rip open the presents but in the end the result is the same. I know time and money cause restraints. Just do your best. I have had to tell the kids that Santa must have forgotten to wrap a couple things because he was in such a hurry to get there on time. Make a logical excuse that kids could understand and accept.
i wrap most of the gifts i give.. i might not like a lego bin or something like that. but theres time.. you can do it in the moring before the kids wake up or at night when they are sleeping.. you could even ask a neighbor or friend or family member to wrap them... good luck and merry christmas
Oh yes I wrap the gifts from Santa. I'm so picky about it too it has to be special paper and I make sure only those things are wrapped in it. But you can do it your own way, if they are big items then I don't see any point in wrapping them! Merry x-mas
I wrap the gifts from Santa, but that's just a personal choice.
Some of these women deserve a good kick in the teeth.
I think it's awesome that you're working so hard and wanting to make it a wonderful Christmas for your kids. And I don't think either of them will even notice that much if you don't have all the gifts wrapped. After all, they're just going to tear right into it anyway, right?
When I was growing up, we had a few wrapped gifts under the tree from my parents, and usually one or two from "Santa" (and Santa's handwriting on the tag looked suspiciously like my mother's). Those things were almost always clothes. The toys, however, were out and displayed, because Santa would play with the toys before he left the house (via the living-room window, since we didn't have a chimney). In reality, of course, this meant they were all assembled and batteried up and ready to play with.
Instead of trying to do every chore that you feel like you "have to" do, leaving less time and energy to just try to enjoy the holidays with your children, I think you should wrap maybe one or two gifts so they have something to open (let's face it, it's fun to tear into that paper), but don't worry about wrapping everything. They won't mind at all, and it will make you more sane and happy over the holidays if you let some stuff slide. And like they say, "If Momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy." :-)
Oh, I want to clarify: not wrapping is okay, but please don't just hand them a wal-mart bag with their stuff in it. My inlaws do this. I hate it. It's like handing you a sign that says "I don't care enough to even take it out of the bag and remove the price tag."
Happy holidays!
My 10 yr old still believes in Santa & I believe part of it is I always used different wrapping paper and never wrote anything. 10 yr olds are smart enough to figure it out. Many 6 yr olds are. They are on a mission to catch Santa. You are in a difficult position. Do what you can. If you don't have time then don't do it. Put it on their beds or in their rooms so they can wake with it & know it's not the siblings present.
i do not wrap gifts from Santa..it just takes the spirt of walking in and seeing the gifts from Santa there! again a perosnal preference. But it is so fun for them to be suprised!
I never wrapped 'SANTA' gifts. That way the paper never matches and his 'ELFS' are too busy making the presents. Also, you do not have to write a name ta, your penmenship won't match, either. I would put the gifts that we got for the kids under the tree a day or two before x-mas, then after the kids were sleeping on x-mas eve, I would put 'SANTAS' presents under the tree. Sometimes if the gifts were small, 'SANTA' would put them an a tree branch, in clear view so my kids would see them. 'SANTA' would only bring each child one, maybe two (at the most) presents per child. 'SANTA' is far from rich, and his 'ELVES' have alot of kids to make presents for. Hope this helps. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
ok, obviously, the ten year old will know that there is no Santa, but that is ok. You still have the three year old. Let the ten year old in on the game. wrap presents from santa, and the ten year old can help get the three year old excited about the prospect of Santa and presents made by elves. It is healthy for a child to believe in something. It teaches them good skills for later on in life. And letting your ten year old participate will make him/her feel included and like they are growing up. It makes them feel big. It can give them confidence. I am a mother myself, and have been in childcare for 10 years. Give it a try. It can be a lot of fun. You can leave milk and cookies out for santa, and even some carrots for the reindeer.
ps - you dont have to buy extra gifts. just label one of your own small ones as from santa.
i think that is one of the joys of christmas seeing the kids tearing open their gifts i think it would spoil it
Tell the kids santa left you an email that said he ran out of wrapping paper and he is sorry..
In my family we have a tradition. Each Christmas Eve the children would get to open one gift Christmas Eve if they agreed to go to bed on time and did their chores. When I was young it was a joy for me as a small boy Christmas Eve to open one gift from my mom or dad and then scamper off to bed and sleep with visions of sugar plums in my head. I remember one Christmas in early 1975 my mother stayed up the day before Christmas Eve cleaning and repairing an old stuffed dog which I loved and cherished since I was real small. She told me later in years that she became bloodbrothers with Danny, the dog. I got to open that gift Christmas Eve and I am hear to tell you I felt so much pride in knowing that my momma, who is with Jesus now took the time in her busy life taking care of 3 of us after my dad left to do that for her little boy. To this day I remember that like it was yesterday and I want to tell you, I still have him. My mom passed on January 2006 but even at her funeral I shared that memory and their wasn't a dry eye. So wrapping gifts given by santa or out of love makes it more special for the receiver.
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