How to manage child being disappointed re Xmas present?

[coffeepulease]

I gave my mother (child's granny) a specific toy idea for my son's Christmas gift- something that was amongst a list of about 4 things he's keen on. Since that time he's started talking about this one toy a lot, and seems even more keen / hopeful it might be under the tree.

Difficulty is that we are not seeing Granny until the 27th, so on the day itself he'll have other lovely things to unwrap but not the special toy.

If I'd known how much he had begin to like this toy I might have bought it myself and let Granny get something different since she won't be seeing him on the day itself.

She's already bought the toy and is looking forward to giving it to DS on the 27th.

Other than saying "ooh perhaps Santas been to Granny's home too" how can I manage his (potential) disappointed reaction on Xmas day at not getting the one toy he wanted but without saying "Granny's got it" and spoiling the surprise for them both?

@Nolegusta So now you're trying to unpick the validity of even asking a question. Ok well now you've just proved your main goal was to come on and knock someone down instead of responding to a legitimate question in good faith. The debate amongst some people on here proves the question was valid either way and regardless of the outcome. You've ignored all my clarifications and persisted with your own projections anyway. You come across as someone who boosts themselves up by knocking others down, which is something I don't respect.

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@coffeepulease
Why would you want to manage the disappointment instead of swapping things round so there's no disappointment?

We actually had this last year!

we weren’t due to see my sister until Boxing Day so got her to buy one of the “lesser” wanted presents (Santa delivers all presents regardless who they are from in our house and knows other people sort it with him)

cue tears on Christmas Day as that was the one thing he wanted to open, we had to ring my sister to see if silly Santa had delivered presents to her house (as well as him checking with his grandparents when we FaceTimed them)

this year he’s actually written on his list that Santa can deliver presents to other peoples houses because he liked having things to open over a few days ( luckily for us because apparently the thing he’s most excited to open he won’t be getting until the 27th)

@coffeepulease
What did you eventually do?

Did you say that the present was from Granny so that she could have the pleasure of being thanked for it? Or pretend that Santa had left it there as you said you were going to do in an earlier post?

If my DS had told his kids that Santa had left presents at granny's house I'd be really annoyed!

Santa always left presents and grandparents house for my kids. They were never from Santa but delivered by Santa and the kids knew who to thank.