Is this fair?

[NorwegianMoon]

we are going to my parents on boxing day and my mum has asked if she can keep all the pressies she has got for my children for them to open on boxing day rather than at ou house on xmas day.

Id really like them to open their gifts on xmas day, i certainly opened my nanas pressies at home on xmas day

Am i being a knob?

I'm with you Star. We have done this several times when the DC were younger.

It can cause problems though! My DDs birthday is just before Christmas, so she gets presents, then a break then more presents, then more presents etc etc. When she was 2 and 3 she really expected the presents to contine for ever

"On I wish it could be Christmas everydaaaay!"

we used to have presents from father christmas under our tree christmas morning, then on boxing day would go to my grandmas and have family presents, it was great and i wish we could do that now with dcs !

YANBU. For children Christmas is a special day it sort of ruins the point if presents are given out over the course of several days.

Part of the joy is for the child to have all their presents, delivered by Santa there on Christmas morning. I insist on that for my dc.

Yes Quicklookbusy. I thought the same. I wanted to do it over the 12 days of christmas :) But decided that DS would then simply not understand when it all ended. A few days of fun shouldn't be too harmful, I hope!

He also gets really fixated on whatever he's just opened, so it's better to let him play with what he's opened for a while before unwrapping another straight away.

ROFL at "unwrapping orgy" I hope to avoid this... we'll see.

I think it is completely understandable that your DM will want to see your DCs open the presents. And it spaces out the pressies nicely.

In fact, we often keep back some presents for the days in between Christmas and NY so there isn't a massive overload on the big day...

My dcs get presants off there great grandparents on xmas eve.

We all go round there as they go to another relative on xmas day. The dcs who are 5 and 6 get told that father christmas has left them at nana and grandads early for them as they have been really good. Normally my aunt comes round as well normally the only time we see her over the year as we live away now.

The dcs love it then christmas day they get the presants from us and my mum as we normally spend christmas there.

They get presants from dps mum when ever we get to see her so more often than not after xmas as dp only gets christmas day and boxing day off. My dcs dont mind as it has always been this way and they are happy with it.