if you dont behave santa wont come!

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well ds1 hasnt behaved. infact he has been horrible.

so how do i explain the pile of presents in the morning? can santa give him a bit of a talking to in his card?

A small card warning him that if he doesn't behave, his dear old mummy might take toys away for a while?

Yes deffo, or if he is old enough then get someone you know to ring up and pretend to be Santa saying that he is very annoyed about being naughty especially as he has been pretty good all year, unloading the sleigh to get the pressies off making him late for all the other girls and boys and then get a promise to be good and see if it works.

Say Mr. Claus will have worked out the behaviour as a percentage spread across the year. Luckily his recent bad behaviour has been absorbed.

the warning might work. i dont think there will be any talking to him tonight tho, he is in the kitchen currently on the naughty chair threatening to kill me and rip out dps hair

hmmm, the percentage is also a good idea but if you ask him he will say he has been naughty all year and thats pretty accurate. it has been a very hard year

i just want to scream or cry he has completely ruined the run up to xmas and all kids know you have to be good to get presents. might settle for swearing and drinking lots. grrrrr

i think you shouldbe nasty in the morning and leave the presents hidden away somewhere else. so when he wakes up he doesnt have any presents under the tree.

i did consider that fairytale, but it just seems too mean. he is only 6 (nearly 7) so knows better than to behave this way but isnt quite old enough to fully understand consequences.

i am very aware of the fact that after this xmas he may only have one or two more years where he believes in the whole santa/reindeer thing. there is so little time when they are young, i dont want to waste any of it. but i also dont want him to think he can do what he likes.

he is being an angel now, has just helped me make a load of crackers for family tomorrow. its like having two children sharing a body

think santa may leave a card with a stern message in it about general behaviour as mb suggested. i know he will really love his big pressie so maybe the threat of losing it will be enough to make him behave

am still

My dh tells me that he had a letter from Father Christmas one year saying that he hadn't been a good boy and that normally FC wouldn't have left him any presents, but that would have made his parents and his sister sad, so FC was leaving his presents just this once - although if he was naughty over Christmas then the presents would have to be sent back, and if he wasn't a good boy in the next year then he would definitely not get any presents the following Christmas.

thanks wwb, that sounds just about what we need. will get writing, they have just gone to bed.

cant believe how good he has been this evening! i feel rotten even thinking about this now