Did anyone else do progressive Christmas presents?

[TheFSMisreal]

It seems like I'm the only one. According to Facebook atleast. My son is super excited to earn his next lot. There must be others though right?

Given what they said previously, I don’t think so.
Ah well, looks like the OP has gone for good so we’ll never know for sure.

Excellent summary naught

And I'll point out I was one of the first posters and actually said to OP that getting add ons and next books was normal no?
I typed a huge post trying to get her to say whether I understood what she was doing was what we all do but just that's the name given. He/She didn't have the consideration to reply but instead decided to be rude to the whole crowd.

Since then plenty of people have typed similar to me and naughty summary even says what I said.

That she basically gives him a present and then allows him to improve that gift by earning rewards.

It's just the whole language of "choose whether he progresses the present or not" made it seem like she was saying "I give him a simple present and he has to earn it being a decent one through good behaviour". Posters were saying a gift should be unconditional.

I think the whole issue has stemmed around the language of the OP and the insistence this progressive presents is a 'thing' despite no one hearing about it.

That's not how I read it naught . There are two types of 'understanding' on this thread. Understanding what the process of progressive presents is, and understanding the idea behind it.

Posters are complaining on here, right to the end, that they do not understand the process of progressive presents which is quite simple:
DS get a coat for Christmas. If he is good (does his chores, nice to his sister or whatever), then he gets to choose a special button for his coat, which is then replaced with a boring button. What is so hard to understand about that?

And your summary makes me laugh. You make out that MN are so sincere, polite and genuinely interested. That has not been the general mood of this thread. More like, mockery and bullying.

And ginger I think you need to be more clear on whether you are being sarcastic or not. Because either you've been sarcastic to me or to naught and it's not clear which one.

Caked

The mockery and bullying started when the op was asked questions as people genuinely didn’t understand. And the op was rude and mocking of the other posters first.

Anyway, back to understanding the concept. Having read the ops posts several times, I also think I get a bit more of it.

The op also said about giving books. 5 books. Each of the 5 in a different series of books. If her child reads one of the books, they get the next one in the same series. But can choose not to read one or all of the books. And will get no more books.

Is that also what you understand?

No, you are right caked I wasn't entirely sure wether ginger was being sarcastic or not.

The thing is though yes your right there is a lot of mocking and I said earlier the buttons "joke" was a bit out of control, but it only came after the OP had told one poster twice very rudely to "bore off" TWICE! OP obsessed about one poster not understanding when actually there were still quite a lot of us confused about it. Which is where what kidding said is true when people like kidding tried to go I'm sort of understanding does it work like this, in which case yes, we probably all do it we just don't have a name for it, instead of going oh yes that's how it works, OP snipped at those that didn't understand and was rude about this generation not understanding the value of things.

I think it's entirely normal to get Add-ons through out the year, and actually Some times if their not near birthdays or Christmas, it may well be as a conditional reward, or the child them self saving pocket money which may be earnt, to buy them. However trying to label this, getting snippy with people that don't understand and not fully explaining, is not normal.
But yes I do think some people have perhaps taken the mockery to far but then I think the OP has taken the rudeness to far too