To ask if you have ever followed through with this threat? Lighthearted**

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Just been watching that video on Facebook of the little boy who says he’s going to punch Father Christmas’s beard off (sure you’ve seen it)

His father says if he doesn’t start being a good boy he won’t get any presents for Christmas which leads me onto have you ever followed through with this threat with your kids/had your parents follow this threat through?

I don’t think I could not get my children anything for Christmas no matter how naughty they had been! 😂😂

We never said that to our children. They are now early 20s. It's cruel, and if they aren't good you should follow through, so what is the point?

I only give threats that I will follow through with (usually naught step or taking away a toy - he's only 4!) so wouldn't threaten with this in the first place.

Yes to an extent.
Every year under the xmas tree there is always atleast 1 potatoe (all wrapped up just like a present) per child.
If your naughty Santa swaps a present for a potatoe

The people who threaten their children with no Christmas presents, are the same sort of people who tell their child that the policeman / woman will take them away.

Best piece of advice my mum gave me was - "Never make empty threats or promises".

If I say it, I do it. I have never threatened my kids with not getting presents.

However, I do know of someone who had to wait for Boxing Day to get their presents because they were caught rifling through the gifts in their parents bedroom and had been warned. Don't think it included the stocking as it wasn't FC punishing them, it was the parents. Lesson learned and never repeated.

DC all still remember the Christmas that DS found a dried up mouldy satsuma at the bottom of his stocking. Obv it had just got caught in the toe and left there from last year (ie not deliberate by me!) but they were all convinced he'd done something really naughty and it was replacing a real present.
Didn't traumatise anyone and it did make them behave quite well the following December!
I could certainly never give just a potato/lump of coal/whatever. That would be horrible.

I was three. My sister and I were being naughty. Mum CALLED santa LOL

I never make the threat as I know I won't follow it through.

My DM once withheld my DBro's santa presents until the afternoon though as he'd been so naughty on the run up to Christmas. He had to sit and watch me open mine. I'm not sure if this was genius or horrible!!

looks like every failed to read your 'lighthearted' comment, OP!

When we were naughty in the lead-up to Christmas my mum didn't say we wouldn't get any presents. She used to say 'That's one off your pile.' The implication being that, while we wouldn't get nothing, for every time we were naughty we would get one fewer thing. Which I think did a good job of making us genuinely believe we would miss out if we were naughty, without being a threat that she couldn't possibly follow through on.

@Stressedout10, sounds like a really unnecessarily mean thing to do to a child.

My dad once told me he would throw all my toys into the bin if I didn't start playing in my own room instead of my sister's. Of course, I didn't want to play in my own room by myself so I continued to play in my sister's room. My toys ended up in a big bin bag...

When we were little my older brother told my youngest brother, who was only around 2 or 3 at the time, that Santa didn't exist and was really mean and horrible about it. It really upset youngest. So my mum put coal in his stocking.

No of course not. It's fairly shitty to even threaten it. Never mind having your kid wake up on Xmas day to a bit of coal or a potato.

@Pomegranatemolasses
Not really it's sort of a tradition in my family my parents still do it to my dsis and I as no one is good all the time and it's become a bit of a game trying to guess which 1 is the potatoe.
They still get all the presents that they would have but if they've been really naughty they might get a 2nd potatoe.
Besides you can bake your potatoe in the log fire for a snack later🤗

flovas I have swept into DD's room with a bin bag and cleared it out. Obviously I didn't throw the stuff away but it worked in that all I have to do is say the words 'bin bag' and she's up there tidying (badly) like a shot!

Yes think the lighthearted has gone unnoticed, I swear at one time I could hear the pitch forks being sharpened!

I think the potato thing is pretty good, and to the lady who said her brother had to wait until the afternoon - your parents must have balls of steel as I wouldn’t be able to do it haha

No but one year when DC had been awful throughout December they did get a letter from Santa a few days before Christmas to say that he was disappointed about the reports he was getting about their bad behaviour. Did the trick

I love the potato idea 😂

Well this threat is always undermined for me as the absolute naughtiest boy I've ever met, who is on DSs class, gets a stocking every year! So DS says if santa gets him stockings, he's definitely safe!!

No because I don’t want them to behave so that they can get presents!

Plus I buy gifts because I love them not because they’ve been good

Definitely a bad idea to make a promise you can't keep; in my teaching days, I found that "I shall get cross" was effective (because they knew that was within my capabilities, while a colleague preferred "I will be forced to take further action."
I once horrified my form by removing the "wet playtime Lego" (my personal property, bought from a boot sale, not school stock, and I'd told them so.....) because several miscreants tried to hoard his stash instead of clearing away properly, presumably for fiddling with later, or smuggling home.
As it happened, my formroom was right by the front door, with my car parked under one of the classroom windows, so they were able to witness the ceremonial transfer to the boot of my car "to go home".
It never occurred to them that a grown woman might not want her living room cluttered up with Lego, but said plastic bricks remained in the boot for the subsequent wet fortnight, with passing comments from me every lunchtime about what a shame it was that there was no Lego to play with, better do some reading practice instead, or catch up on unfinished work.........
I felt no need to drag Santa Claus into the argument; they knew that I said what I meant, and meant what I said.