ok, then I would take the gifts back, get the cash, and donate it to charity and give the receipt and a nice card to the spoiled little bugger. That was he can learn that christmas shouldn't be about receiving loot.
There is too much of our culture focused around entitlement "I should get this PS3, I should get this Wii" whatever. The morals of christmas died around a hundred years ago when the first Hudson's Bay Christmas Catalogue came out.
If any of you read the Baby Blue cartoons in the sun they nailed it down exactly when the kids instead of making a gift list wrote one line. We want every gift in the world. And when the dad explained that they should get coal, and explained that coal was a rock that burned, the kids wanted that too.
Its pretty clear to me that the mother was unwilling or unable to clamp down on the kid, and made a misguided attempt to set him straight, but probably went way overboard.
If anyone should get a lump in the stocking it is this kid. On the naughty list.
Presents are given out of love, I agree, but to me giving a misbehaving kid a $300 gaming console isn't a gift of love, its bribery.
When I was growing up, how we behaved and the grades that we got obviously effected the gifts that we got.
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