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

No, get some Christmas spirit....or have consume some and you won't care

That is do cruel to say you are going to cancel Christmas for only him on Xmas eve!! Talk about sucking the fun out of it!

My youngest 2ds went to bed at 8pm..both got fevers and didnt even want to put FCs mince pie and carrot out..I had too Id much rather have them too excited to sleep!
Your dc will soon conk out..enjoy their excitement

My DD5 is still awake, i can hear her talking, on her birthday she didnt go to bed til 3am and still managed a whole day at the zoo.

He is 3 1/2 and soooo stubborn. Love him to bits but the first three piece of cake in comparison.

Have been working my socks off to give them all a great Christmas and hate the thought of spoiling any of it. Also cross with myself for saying we'd contact FC and cancel but hate not following through.

You are of course all right and we can't and won't. DH, miserable sod that he is has suggested a couple of potatoes at the top of the stocking. Is this Ok??

Get into bed with him, give him a cuddle, sing a couple of songs and count back from 100.

I'd just got my 8yo DD's presents out of the loft and left them on the landing to get something from another room - came back and discovered her in the bathroom having walked straight past them (luckily in a black sack).

It could be worse.

I've sussed it. Op and her dh are the real Mr & Mrs Clause. They neeeed to go and deliver all the other presents.

No?

Oh okay then, just chill out for a bit. The more worked up and ludicrous the threats become, the harder your job is in the long run. But you know that already.

No it's not ok. This is the one day of the year they are allowed to be excited!!!

Tell your DH to scrooge off!

It's not like it's even late!

No, potatoes is not ok. I am a very strict parent and I would never have done this. His excitement is the culmination of weeks of Christmas being shoved down everyone's throats.

And he may lie in tomorrow so you don't have to get up as early.

No don't cancel!! If necessary one of you can take him to bed for a cuddle and the other one put the presents under the tree for him to find in the morning. Poor lamb, he's just excited!

'DH, miserable sod that he is has suggested a couple of potatoes at the top of the stocking. Is this Ok??'

Uhhhh...no.

Not the time to be teaching any lessons in going to bed by 'tricking' him into thinking that's all he's got.

Or is your DH just messing about and doesn't actually mean it seriously?

Boo to you big menie bastards!! It's Christmas!!! Chill out

DH, miserable sod that he is has suggested a couple of potatoes at the top of the stocking. Is this Ok??

Yeah fine

Please think about what you're both saying here.

You need to calm down, take your DS downstairs, cuddle him up and turn the lights down...just keep everything as calm and quiet as you can.

Then you can all relax.

Hand him his teddy, tell him you are going to call FC who will want to speak to him & teddy, but it might take a while to get through. You are going downstairs to get a better signal. It is VITAL neither he nor teddy go to sleep whilst they are waiting.

They almost certainly will. If they haven't, after ten minutes, you rustle up an amenable (slightly pissed is good) brother or mate who will ramble on boringly to ds on your mobile about how cold it is on the sleigh, gosh, I wish I was tucked up in that lovely warm bed like you & teddy...HOURS till I get to your place...BIG YAWN....

Worked on dd1 last year!

Definitely don't threaten to cancel Xmas for him.

Little boy,just be kind.

Life's just toooo hard when you get older.

No, it's really not OK.

Your child is three.

Please someone tell me this is a wind up? No one can get to 4 dcs and act this way surely? Poor little lad if it's true

Aww I went up to my 4 yr old a totally of 5 times, remember we lied to the, enough to whip them up like this.

It will be worth it in the morning.

I have 3 and the older 2 are still awake and they know its me!!

You both need to chill out and let them have what we have been promising for the last 24 days!

Look, listen to what we are all saying!!! Just chill out about it!! You don't HAVE to follow through on your threat, you made a mistake making it in the first place. He's 3 and a half.

Potatoes would still be cruel. It's Christmas! It isn't really that late!

It's not even that late.

FC won't even be here til after 12.....lazy sod.