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?

I’m just imagining my kids faces if I offered them a button to tidy their rooms.

Why does every style of parenting have to have a pretentious title?
You gave you dc a Christmas present and now dc can earn extras as a reward - like a reward chart that many parents do. Great if it works for you but I'm not going to spend hours on initiatives like this - my "winging it" approach to parenting seems fairly successful so far. (But then I'm too lazy for elf on a shelf plus, the thought of my 3 getting additional stuff regularly throughout the year makes me think they'll appreciate Christmas/birthdays less, and where would I put it all?!)
By all means do your way but don't imply it's superior to my way.

@TheFSMisreal yes. You caught me. I always lie about treating,rewarding and giving gifts to DD. In reality she gets a new stick to add to her collection, if she's extra good she gets a rock too.

P.S. She actually does have a stick collection. Kid is weird.

😂 this is utterly fucked up 😝 thanks for the laugh

I have no idea what this is all about. I mean when I was a kid my mum bought me a book for Xmas if I liked it she would buy me the next in the series isn't that how books work??? Or was my mum incredibly progressive for her time. ( she wasn't and isn't in any way progressive)
My dd got some Pjs for Xmas should I have kept half back to reward her for good behaviour? Or given her half a pj masks costime? I got my DH a watch, should I have kept the battery to reward for later good behaviour?

But they do get to understand the value of things without a system like you describe. For instance, let's say they get a basic farm or zoo set with a few animals as a present. Or Lego, or a doll's house/castle, or the first in a series of books.

They then save up their hard-earned pocket money every week so they can add to the collection themselves.

That's what most people do, isn't it? Otherwise it rather smacks of bribery.

This thread is the gift that keeps on giving.

Boom. Boom.

I don't know about progressive presents, I think OP is into progressive posting though. If we're all very good children and don't lie she'll be back on with another update in a few hours.

@Hoppinggreen

that made me proper LOL

I can understand the idea of getting way a Mecchano Dec for Christmas off your parents for main present , then if other family members know they can get little add ons (same with Lego etc), and can be after to the next year or at birthdays or whatever, but this seems a bit radge and controlling

I’ll never forget that magical Christmas when I got a button. What a time to be alive.

This has to be either made up, the work of a control freak or someone on the sniff.

I personally think it’s made up

@cricketqueen if she's good you can next add a pillow, extremely good she can have a duvet(cover, extra work needed for the actual duvet) and if she toes the line all year, next christmas she can finally have a bed!

Oh dear. I think OP was delighted at supposedly “discovering” this way of doing things, coming here to explain (badly), and then when we didn’t immediately get her “genius” has resulted to childish name-calling and being rude in general.
Buying add-ons for a doll or toy I get. But swapping a button on a coat? For a “fancier” one?? Who the fuck cares??
Unless of course this is all a wind up...

Once you're past Christmas Day, aren't they just 'presents'? Haven't RTFT yet.

I'm actually wondering if OP is a Smig performance parent IRL and someone told her about 'progressive presents' as a wind up and she came here to boast and it fell flat when we all said "WTF " rather than validated her amazing parenting?

This is utterly mad.

I have never read a thread this confusing. Place-marking so I can find out what is wrong with OP's brain. Progressing presents, from what I have gathered, is buying your LO a doll for Christmas and then something about going to the shop for buttons to change something?

I just asked my Ds what he would think to me giving him a button for tidying his room .( bear in mind he does this because he is told off ) apparently he would think it was a rip off . Not sure your idea will catch on op

The phrase ‘are you on glue’ seems apt here.

OP’s son might like buttons but most don’t. Buttons are cheap as chips anyway, doesn’t sound like much of a reward.

This idea is the Battiest Batshit in Batshittown