To ask if anyone else has children not remotely bothered about Christmas!?

[haphazardbystarlight]

My DS isn't! I have told him he will turn into the grinch at this rate. He says it isn't just him

So I am trying to find out if anyone else has children who are finding Christmas a minor irritation!

HamPortCourt DSis is 38 and I am 41. We still get each other stockings
I have to say I wouldn't mind if we stopped now but she is insistent. So there's your answer..
You lose interest about age 40!!!

A girl after my own heart Sparkling...
I don't miss the getting up in the dark, having to dash straight for pressies without even a sniff of a coffee, feeling half dead by 12 noon.
Their presents are under the tree. We will wake up when the dog barks us up. We shall sit down to pressie with coffee in hand.

(Having said that, we are all in our pyjamas already, waiting to sit down to a Steve Martin double bill, teens too)

And I don't have to dress up in that stoopid costume anymore and have DH take a photo of me artfully arranging presents under the tree at 3am to 'prove' to the dc that He exists.

Snap! haphazard, DSS hasn't been excited about Christmas for at least the last couple of years - I went into his room the other day and the Lindt advent calendar we bought him sits unopened by his desk. No slung aside, more just put to one side, not opened (maybe he's going to scoff the lot when he comes over on 29th!).

Maybe it's a combination of living in two households - 50% each (which has been as successful a shared care as we could wish for), and the fact we have tried to be less focussed on presents and more on messages of "it's a time to be together, presents are only part of the fun" etc.

He's going through a cynical phase anyway (teenage syndrome), questioning everything, can't stand the fuss at school and scathing of how "pointless and commercial" it all is. Fingers crossed he will soften his stance a little, when he has DCs of his own, so they can enjoy the magic he once experienced (which he has forgotten... for now!).

YY Spring no excited little ones up at 4.30am, I used to be sat there in my dressing gown trying to remember which aunt bought which mahoosive plastic toy ready for the thank you notes while trying to stay awake.

Tomorrow I will get up, shower and put my make up on and do my hair. Get dressed and have a coffee. At some point in the morning around 11am if like last year the teens will rise and present opening will be done in a calm manner.

My DS is nearly 3 and doesn't really care. He's only excited about Santa because he's a character in the Stick Man book. I've tried to get him excited about presents and things, but meh.

my 11 y.o is not bothered at all. I am more excited than him

I haven't done Christmas for twenty years or so. As I recall I began to feel just a little jaded with it when I was eight, nearly nine. There must be something about that age.

However, as the youngest of seven children I had a duty to maintain the magic until the point I was seriously pissed off with it all.

Right now I admit to being in my local, completely relaxed, very busy and surrounded by families and couples who I hope will have a lovely day tomorrow.

Merry Christmas.

DS1 has ASD and never got visibly excited about it all even as a toddler. Now he likes it but still doesn't get excited really. He is very dead pan ant everything to be honest. Most people find it hard to tell the difference between really happy and bored with him. DS2 (age 3) however is bouncing off the walls!

DS1(15) not bothered- in fact he wrapped all the presents and is organising them under the tree right now.

DS2(11) has severe autism and couldn't give a monkeys

Mine (14) is ridiculously excited, probably because we're going down to visit family tomorrow, but also because he likes the daft nonsense and chocolate he'll find in his stocking.

I'm very meh this year, but that's because I'm out of sorts generally. I'm determined to make more of it in 2015.

I couldnt give shit about it tbh. I only make the effort for DD, when shes bored of it, we'll eat and mope together.

DS1(20) hates it. He said he can't think of anything worse than being crammed into a room, having to sit with relatives that you have nothing in common with just because it's Christmas.

I can see that as he gets older that he won't bother coming home for Christmas, he'll probably jet off somewhere.

He hates his birthday too.

I also dont really care about my birthday either, just another day for me.

DS isn't fussed about his birthday either!

Our. 3 DDs are all in their 20's now and still have stockings in fact DH and I do stockings for each other.

It is interesting that it seems to be mostly boys who aren't bothered by it...

My DD (18) is the grinch round here.

Our Christmas won't be happening until 29th when DSS comes over. By then, we'll have been staring at the wrapped presents under the tree for days and will have gone completely off the boil.

I don't care anyway coz I'm getting the Cath Kidston laptop bag I chose last week

We just opened our stockings - that's DD (16mo) who doesn't understand yet, me (37), DH (40), DSis (42), DBiL (43), DM (67) and DF (64) - we all have stockings every year and love it!

DS 15 has been fairly low key, but DD still loves the whole shebang and will not tolerate deviation from tradition.

Also we have my nieces staying ( 3 and 6) so that has really kept the magic factor going . Even DS couldn't wait to see them this morning to ask if Santa had been .

Eldest (16) toletates it.
Younger son (11 does Christmas 'light'
Daughter of 6,who is already passed off at the whole day at 10:33 am.
I can take it or leave it.
dh (on the other hand) loves it.