Wonder if anyone else thinks that some kids just get too many presents. I love to give presents especially to children but this year we spent Christmas with dil's family (which we've done lots of time before) our own kids are grown and even the grandchildren are of an age when they know what they want or we give them money. This family now have grandchildren, twins (boy and a girl) aged 5 so there were going to be lots of presents, but the amount was staggering. They were just opening them and barely looking at them, tossing them aside, and opening the next one. I found it really upsetting. DH had made a garage for the boy and it had taken him weeks, and it was just plonked down without a 2nd look and I'd bought a big doll and made loads of clothes, and again that was tossed aside, as was everything else.
The children's mother just rammed all the presents into cardboard boxes and lots of things were squashed. I just thought it so sad that the kids didn't seem to get any pleasure out of anything - it was almost a form of deprivation.
Shortly after this some more relatives arrived with another sack full of presents and the whole thing started again............I have memories of our kids looking at their presents, even reading the new books, and just appreciating everything.
Is it just me?
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NanaNina · 26/12/2015 23:03
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