Another Christmas with the family 'problem'!!

poet123

Person_one wrote: »

As well as disagreeing with you generally (from the age of about 6 or 7 the thing I liked most about Christmas was giving, not receiving, I used to start making godawful glitter covered monstrosities for the family in October half term and I'm pretty sure I'm not unique) the point I was making was that the specific child in the OP hasn't said his reasons are materialistic.

Poet has made an assumption and jumped to an uncharitable conclusion about him. He wants to wake up in his own bed, so do I generally, barring unexpectedly bumping into Eric Bana in Tesco.

Poet has not made an assumption or jumped to an uncharitable conclusion. I said I thought the accident was an excuse, and that the real reason was that he just wanted to be at home and that seems to be the case, for whatever reason. In the OP it was mentioned that the issue of where santa would call was brought up, which was why I referred to it. A lot of my comments were not actually aimed at the OP, they were more general parenting observations. Don't let the truth get in the way of a festive dig though.;););)

I do sympathise and fully agree Christmas is about children, but there is a bigger picture, and if the children are catered for and accommodated then there is no reason why everyone can't be happy. Most of us would prefer to be at home, but because of the nature of the festive season and the want/need to see all our loved ones we accept that we can't always do that.

Wickedkitten

In our family, the last time that we spent Christmas away from home was about 1984 when I was 6. My mum got tired of driving all the way across Scotland on Christmas Eve to see the family, when all seeing the family involved was everyone sitting around the TV set until New Years Day when we would get in the car and my dad would drive all the way back home.

I can totally understand why people would want to go to their relatives for Christmas, but there comes a time when you have to start making your own family traditions

mummyroysof3

have found this thread very interesting. we have christmas at home as i feel it would be unfair on the children to have to leave their presents and find traveling with 3 young children stressful, luckly we have relitives nearby who come to us..shame my mum lives 250 mile away but this year they are coming on christmas day which im really happy about