to cancel father christmas for my youngest

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He is still awake. We have tried everything including saying that we'll text FC and tell him to avoid DS4.

Should we?

At wits end

You cnt force yourself to sleep even if you want to and the more pressure you put on him to sleep the harder it will be for him.

Leave him alone and he will drop off sooner or later. Dont even threaten him with no santa let alone think seriously about it.

worra

Have you tried "Santa doesn't come until you are fast asleep". That used to work for my 3 when they were younger.

How old is he?

Wine it out, you can't cancel! It's Christmas!

Not understandint why your Dh is almost postal though?

Please don't cancel his Christmas . He will fall asleep eventually and cancelling his would probably upset the other DC too.

You will miss having lovely excited little children when he's too grown up to care. Get into bed with him and sing him asleep - it's only one night, it won't wreck your routine.

I reckon/hope the OP's just venting, I can't imagine how she'd think the day would play out if she followed through.

Lock him in the coal cellar while they all have a jolly old time?

I'm so excited I can't sleep. I'm 26. I hope nobody takes it upon themselves to cancel my Christmas!

Chill out the bloody pair of you. Bring him back downstairs, give him a milky drink and make everything very quiet.
He'll soon give in.

Is this when the OP does the big reveal that her DS is actually 18?

Your not alone. My DS 5 is still awake too

How old is he?

Do you have 4 children? You must be used to this by now!

It's Christmas Eve, only time of the year you are guaranteed to have them up late bit not argue in the morning!

Stop being a meanie!

Seriously? Cancelling one of your childrens Christmas? Way to fuck him up.

He'd never forget that. Or forgive you.

Jesus Christ what the fuck is wrong with some people.

I think you both need to do your best to calm down and then take turns with your husband to calm your son/ do whatever it is you are desperate to do. That way your son gets to have a non-stressed parent and neither of you are stressing madly about having to get him to sleep so fast.

Having your DH with him when he's "on the edge of going postal" is not going to calm your child to sleep.

How old is he?

Are you and dh calm? Making threats like indicates you are not - and it is hardly conducive to relaxing and going to sleep.

What have yiu tried so far?

Horrible mean parents !!!!!

'Passes OP and hubby a grip'

It's 10.31pm. In 10 years time, you won't be able to drag him OUT of bed and you'll think back to this night and cringe. Get into bed beside him and shush him to sleep. It's ONE night of the year.

I couldn't sleep last night (I actually love Christmas Eve more than Christmas). Im glad you didn't cancel my day today.

Seriously, calm down, everyone take a deep breath. True, I was delighted when DS finally went to bed but getting stressed and 'going postal' isn't going to help anyone. Tell your P to get a grip.

Ps also cancelling his xmas over nit be ing able to go to sleep is totally out of proportion!

Having same problem with my 4 year old who is still wide awake, but has given up and is at least staying in bed since we called "santa" dhs mate who spoke to him on phone.

Warm milk and some banana will help him off to sleep. I think the two together make a mild sedative.
The little boy is very excited and you sound harassed. Are you able to sit quietly with him for a while?

My DS (6) has just gone to sleep - hooray! Good job I've only got two presents to wrap - I did the others the other day.

No, you can't cancel FC, especially if he's going to see his siblings get stockings.

That's an absolutely crushing punishment and the feelings of resentment could stay with him for life years.

It doesn't fit the 'crime' at all. You may be feeling exasperated he won't go to bed, but he needs your help to get tl sleep.

Please let us know you're not going to ruin his Christmas, I feel bad for him!

He'll sleep eventually, I promise!

Take some deep breaths and try to find a strategy for getting him to sleep which doesn't involve ruining Christmas!

When DS is like this I tell him to lie down and cuddle a teddy and I'll be back in 5 minutes. Sometimes I get the feeling my efforts are actually keeping him awake. Sometimes this works, sometimes i find him hiding under the bed instead! But worth a try?

I don't really understand why his presence makes you both so angry! It's only 10.30 not the middle of the night. Very odd.

OP please come back and tell us this little boy will still get Christmas.

It's actually depressed me thinking of him being punished for being excited.