Sad that my dc aren't interested in any Christmas films

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Ds1 especially just wants to play XBox, watch the Simpsons or police interceptors.

Is not and has never been interested in The Snowman, any Christmas films, Christmas songs.

When I was a child it was those things that made Christmas. I had it all planned, I'm recording all the films. He's just smiled and said "I don't want to watch any Christmas films".

Are anyone else's dc like this?

I can't imagine forcing my kids to watch a film. If they are being forced then what's the point? I hate bloody films myself. We will be having our annual Wallace and Gromit screening but nobody is forced to attend. My son would rather play fortnite and he is welcome to. It's his Christmas too.

If they like The Simpsons watch the Christmas episodes. You can’t force traditions, not if you actually want them to last. Work with what you’ve got.

My parents tried to make me love It’s A Wonderful Life every year. Dreaded it every Christmas, and decades on I still think it’s a depressing pile of crap meant to make boring people with boring lives in boring towns feel good about never escaping (no wonder my parents loved it).

Forget putting up the tree, Christmas really started when the Christmas Radio/TV Times arrived. (You has to get both because back in the day they didn't publish each other's schedules.) All the family would then circle what they wanted to watch. It was a huge part of Christmas.

I love Christmas films, the cheesier the better.

My DC are so uninterested this year, it's quite depressing.

You could barter. For every Christmas movie they watch with you, they get X amount of time on their Xbox/WIFI.

Mind you I couldn't sit through a film at their age either.

I would find this quite worrying when you’re referring to teenagers - how long is a film, an hour and a half? but then I guess that you mean it’s just because it’s a film they don’t want to watch? Presumably they are able to concentrate for that length of time on something they enjoy doing?

Muppets Christmas Carol! How can they resist!

I feel you... my dd refuses to watch the Muppet Christmas carol as its too boring. Ffs 😓😓😓

My son watches Catchphrase and only Catchphrase. He has ASD and it’s quite obsessed with it! I’d love to sit with him and watch a film or anything else, at least there’s the Catchphrase Christmas special I suppose

We didn’t really do Christmas movies when I was a kid (sorry but I really don’t like them either!) but there was always something fun on such as Jason and the Argonauts, or a Sinbad movie, in the morning, and then we‘d all sit around in a turkey coma watching the Bond film later on. Could you just find something fun to watch that you can all enjoy?

It's perfectly reasonable to schedule some family time, but I don't see why it has to be watching films if they don't enjoy it. Play some games together, or go for a walk, or whatever.

They will watch films at the cinema.

It doesn't even have to be films, I'd just very much like to watch some regular tv, something we can all watch and at least vaguely enjoy.

We do have lots of family time doing other things but I'd actually just like to watch some tv over Christmas. By that I mean out of the stuff that's on the schedule.

I think I've realised that the dc have taken over the television.

We are going to watch a Christmas film tonight I was thinking of die hard. We all sat down together to watch the new ghost busters last week but unfortunately we were unanimous it was unwatchable and turned off part way through. My children are older teenagers.

I compromised and let them watch the Christmas episodes of their favourite cartoons this afternoon - so Scooby Doo and Blaze and the Monster Machines it is then

I remember E.T, The Snowman and Star Wars films on Christmas day. I also remember very quickly losing the will to live. Even now, just can't watch them without wanting to bang my head off the wall till I lose consciousness just to escape the tedium.

i do think a bit of "forced" film time is sometimes the thing to do.like pp have said when you actually get them there many of them love it.its just there is so much to choose from so many screens now they both take for granted or just don't see or want to just sit ,doing one thing with the film watching.

SpamU8, it's Christmas ffs. Have a Baileys or something.

I'm quite lucky with mine, they're 14 and 16yo boys (and ds2 in particular is very typical super-cool football mad teen boy) and they watch the Snowman every Christmas Eve and wouldn't miss it. Tonight they both cried at the end . There are some things they refuse to watch (ds2 won't watch Agatha Christie at all, he finds it tedious). I do think their attention spans are shorter than ours were and they are used to instant gratification and unlimited choice. I also think teenagers now have more of an expectation that their views and preferences matter. I shudder at the thought of my childhood family sitting down to watch my mother's choice of Christmas movie and me or one of my siblings saying "Nah, its crap, I'm off to my room to read comics".

They are more likely to sit and join in and find themselves enjoying something they wouldn't necessarily have chosen if we DON'T bug them about looking at their phones or zoning out every now and then. If we put an old movie on which is blatantly for my dad's benefit they will have the good manners and kindness not to walk out or complain about how crap it is, because they are nice people.

SpamU8 Santa left one of his, so you can have it...

Oh wait...here...

DD and I watched Christmas Chronicles on Netflix on Sunday night, she wasn’t keen at first but we both loved it.

I think my daughter and I laughed for a full five minutes when Santa was singing in The Christmas Chronicles.

She tries to get us to watch Elf year-round. 🙄

I don't particularly like Christmas films though I do like 'The Snowman', I think it's beautiful. However I like drawing so that contributes to my liking.

There have been a lot of Christmas-themed films on Truemovies (I think), I haven't watched one. Not my thing.

Dramatisations of the Dickens, A Christmas Carol, are sometimes good.

Why are you sad your children don't care for Christmas films? We can't all have the same taste. I'm sure they like other things about Christmas.

Have a good one

I hate forced films either, maybe its because I grew up in the Southern Hemisphere where there is more emphasis on being outside than stuck in doors and watching films etc.

I am at PILs and pretty much every year we watch Love bloody Actually or it's A Wonderful Life, at least last night I convinced them to watch The Polar Express which the kids enjoyed.

I tried to create Xmas eve traditions when my kids were small with a Christmas film but my dc were never that bothered. They still aren't. Films are on all year round now so I think it's lost it's magic tbh.