To think presents should wait until Xmas day?

[StayDetermined]

I’ve always done presents on Christmas Day only (the exception being unwrapped gifts of chocolate or similar), or some after Christmas Day if visits to relatives happen then, which has happened for the past two years.

MIL wants the kids to open theirs this weekend during our visit. Children are 2 and 5 and really believe in Santa. We do Santa stockings and one big present, and then rest are from the giver delivered by him, so she would still get credit for them. We live far enough away and she won’t/can’t travel to spend the day with us as FIL is too old and infirm to cope with the journey.

I want to wait. AIBU to insist on it or should I back down with grace?

I think telling kids that fc delivers everything makes it tricky so we have always told them he delivers the stockings and a big present or two and we / family give the rest that way it doesn’t matter if they’re opened a bit before or a bit after .
Prolongs the fun that way