Is it just my kids who haven't got onboard with the things you're supposed to do!

[mincefuckingpies]

They aren't interested in baking. (This is probably because I am shite at it.) So making gingerbread and cookies is out; they'd rather just buy some.

They cried at Santa

If I tried to snuggle up in a blanket and watch Christmas movies with them, I'd be kicked and punched to within an inch of my life and after half an hour they'd wander off.

AIBU to think it's all bollocks, but a few toys and have done with it

Lol, you are making me feel lucky, baking with my 5 year old is so much fun that I feel like poking my eyes out instead every time I suggest it I am always super please when my daughter agrees to do it with me and just as please when she gets bored and goes away so I can do it the right way . As for XMAS movies, she is happy to snuggle up and watch them as we make her earn her cartoons and movies (one job done = 5 minutes of cartoons and she has to do at least 7 jobs through the week to get a movie on the weekend) so if she has earned one she will happily sit her but down and watch it.

Co sleeping on the other hand with her is definitely a one way ticket to face slapping hell for Mum and Dad haha

My kids are with their Dad this weekend btw just doing loads of sport. If they prefer something like that - or anything else 'just do what makes them happy. That will be Christmas for them.

OP I feel your pain! Have also had tears at Santa, a failed movie attempt and an absolute meltdown over wanting to eat the entire Advent calendar on the 1st, leading to it being confiscated to a hiding place.

And no, before Ghanagirl et al ask - I do not mean the DC actually melted due to my terrible parenting skills. And the pain I feel is emotional, not physical due to violent offspring. I'm sure OP is grateful for your concern though

Merry Christmas OP, bring on the booze

Apollo is spot on. I also agree with you OP.

My kids are teens now and it's considerably nicer. They had actually baked cookies and brownies for us to eat while watching various things on Netflix together this Christmas.

Having said that, they still had a row about decorating the tree. Gave each other daggers for hours

I'm so glad I seemed to have missed the Christmas Eve box thing too.

Our tradition is a trip to the best cinema in town to see a film as a family on Christmas Eve. It's always good, everyone's happy and I don't gave yo do anything!

Whoever said upthread that everyone measured their Christmas against others on SM was also spot on. Just do your Christmas your way. If anyone tries to tell you that their holidays are constantly happy with no arguments, tantrums, accidents or frayed nerves then they're completely lying.

Oh go and have a word with yourself Ghana

ghanagirl

Fuck off

Jesus Ghanagirl get over yourself.

Don't worry op, someone has just started a thread referring to their vagina as a 'moo', the harpies will be busy tearing her to shreds for a while. You're safe to come back!

Trust MN, if you have nothing nice (or useful) to say....

Come back OP!

I feel your pain re the kids

@Ghanagirl you've gone way over the top with a lighthearted thread. If I genuinely thought she was being punched and kicked and had askedfor advice then fair enough. But bloody hell!!

I assumed OP was talking about sharing a sofa with squirmy, bored kids rather than condoning juvenile violence, but then I’m not a bitchy pearl clutcher desperately looking for opportunities to tear women down.

For us it is baking and crafts - I feel like we should, seems fun and everyone on insta and fbook are doing it but they’re 5 and 3 and I get twitchy when they’re doing things ‘wrong’ basically when they are not doing things my way and have to fight the urge not to take over. Plus the mess!

The first few posts were disgusting - really bullying behaviour.

I'm not sure that the same couldn't be said of some of the comments later directed at Ghanagirl though. She may have genuinely misunderstood what the OP was talking about!

My son really would hit and kick me if I tried to make him sit next to me and watch a film so I wouldn't put him in that stressful situation.
There are some really sanctimonious people about.

(OP I get you were being lighthearted.)

She definitely didn't misunderstand and was very cruel and rude. She then came back to repeat her comments so it was definitely not a misunderstanding.

Bloody he'll Ghanagirl you're really not getting it are you.
If you pm me your address I'll send you some syrup of figs to assist in the removal of the stick from your arse.

Nah, Ghanagirl didn’t genuinely misunderstand. Neither did any of the others.
They along with the other po get kicks out of picking apart posts on the internet.

I don't know whether she misunderstood or not, and I certainly don't agree with her posts, but I do think that some posters have been unnecessarily horrible in retort.

I'm not sure that the same couldn't be said of some of the comments later directed at Ghanagirl though. She may have genuinely misunderstood what the OP was talking about!

No, she did not. It was made extremely clear what was meant and she has repeatedly commented trying to either goad people or upset the OP. She needs to fuck off.

I don’t think they were that bad tbh, she got told to fuck off a few times, but I didn’t notice much more than that.
Tbh, I thought oh just fuck off, I just didn’t type it because that would probably count as a PA and I am a Pollyanna prissy pants.

My dc don’t want to make the snowflakes and garlands I had planned. They want to watch minecraft on Netflix, ungrateful bastards.
I wasn’t even going to post in on FB, it was for my own personal smugness.

Today they did not know what a hand towel was. They have literally never heard of a hand towel. I cannot understand how anyone could not know what a hand towel is.

Do you have hand towels at home? Have they just never noticed them?

Are they still very young?