To think these are SPOILT BRATS!

[Cozy9]

Someone has been retweeting kids (young adults really) whinging about what they have got (and not got) for Christmas! Hopefully some of these are parodies.

Well, looks like all those 'ungrateful kids' are getting flamed on Twitter now and responding that they were only joking. Not sure they deserve the reaction they've had tbh.

Same with mine nebulous, I'm sure ds 1 17 would love the new iPad but there is no way I'm spending that sort of money. He asked for a blackberry tablet. I don't think I've seen it out of his hand allday.

dementedma your DCs sound lovely and a credit to you.

I'm a bit mind-blown that teenagers shouldn't ask for technology.

I didn't get Christmas presents, so would never have asked for them. But I do love technology. I have various pieces of technology that are expensive, but that I paid for, and that I love.

That does not mean I appreciate things any less. Not at all. I can still entertain myself perfectly well without technology or the internet, and I am very grateful for gifts that I now get from my DP.

I have not been, and will not be, warped by technology.

Any warping that is done to teenagers/children these days is done by the parents, who spoil them rotten and then wonder why nothing is good enough.

And people have asked WHY I havent just bought my 8yr old an iPad rather than making him help me sell old toys, cross £10s off a chart as we've saved and why we've asked relatives for money rather than presents....

It's because I want him to understand what buying these things take... and he NEEDS one... the accessibility, the SEN apps and the educational bonus' make this something that will make a big difference to his life.

Entitled arseholes

Certain people on this thread really need to get over themselves

Technology does not spoil children - parents do. I also strongly disagree that numerous possessions serve to spoil children - again, parents do. It's like claiming the child with a rag doll is spoiled compared to a child who has a wooden spoon. Objects of affection are relative and change over time - what doesn't change is parents teaching their children to appreciate what they have and/or save up to acquire what they don't have, and that has nothing to do with the number (or coolness!) of gadgets the children already have/might aspire to have.

Of course...those tweets are completely different from the shit presents threads on here.

I have to live with one of these in my family! We had the wrong colour iPhone5 trauma and the having to wait an extra day after the release date for her mother to pay a few £100s plus £45 a month on a contract for the princess. But she NEEDS it because she has to catch a bus every day (a normal PAYG mobile wouldn't provide the same level of contact apparently).

The latest news is the £45 a month contract is shit and her mum's a bitch for not paying for her have more Internet on it, so she's just going to run the bill up in excess usage to 'teach' her!

Not found out what she's had for Xmas yet, that's something for me to 'look forward' to later whilst I bite my tongue as her Grandma tells me she deserves it as she vacuumed her bedroom once this year - or something.

The presents they're moaning about would be going back if these were my kids!

If I saw mine going off like this, they know it would be a kick in the crotch and a lump of coal next year, the worst kind of "throw money at them, so we can be best friends" style parenting.

I haven't read the link as I can't get on it but the ones that were pasted
Wow. Those kids need a kick up the backside. They sound like teenagers (I would hope so, using twitter), their parents need to tell them to get a job and anything they want, buy themselves. If I was their parent, I don't know how I'd stop myself a telling them they were an ungrateful little shit and then taking their gifts back.