Following through with the naughty list

[kittymamma]

So we do presents from everyone else and then a couple from Santa thing in our house. I have a 7 yr old and a 2 yr old.

My 7 year old has been a total nightmare this week. Rude, argumentative, mean to her younger sibling and just a total pain. She has been warned about the naughty list and today she wasn't much better.

So really... she can't possibly be on Santa's nice list. But can I really not give her those presents? They are books she has wanted for months and a little something extra that she doesn't know.

I don't want to ruin Christmas but Santa loses all credibility if he hands over gifts to her now..

What would you do?

Feral Jesus take that note from FC OUT of that stocking! Your kid is 4 that's properly evil!

FC is magic and excitement of Christmas not a parenting tool!

It's lazy parenting to hand over discipline to Santa. And totally ineffective.

DD7 has been a frigging nightmare all week. She’s just excited about Christmas, and can’t control those emotions so well.

Wouldn’t dream of not giving presents.

And next year don't make threats that you know you aren't going to follow through

Children forget their naughtiness as quickly as they forget the consequences. Luckily for us parents or they’d think we hated them with al the punishments we dole out.
And in future years don’t go on about Santa’s naughty list.

You're definitely not a bitch OP, and like the rest of us, just trying your best with this parenting shit lark. Christmas isn't the best time to implement these life lessons with our kids, but I suspect you've already got that from this thread! So don't beat yourself up, and just have a nice Christmas.

I’m not in love with this idea that seems to be popular now of Santa as an Old Testament god, punishing the bad and rewarding the good.

Play Santa games for fun but imbuing him with magical powers of justice is too weird for me. And I’m vaguely religious!

Oh Ferall please take that note out. That's far too much shame for a small child :( How frightened do you think that will make him?

Honestly please don't do it.