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Originally Posted by redforever
This is what I have done with my children for the last couple of years...no reason why you can't reverse it and do it as the child.
I have a son and a daughter. We each buy tickets to an event, whatever you like, could be theater, a movie, going to a restaurant, you decide.
And then we have a relaxing evening out where none of us has to cook dinner or anything else. We can just go out, catch up on our news, and enjoy our company. So for us, it is three evenings out and we each pay for one of the evenings.
Then we just get small stuff, it could be a bottle of wine, whatever, that much you can figure out on your own.
I do buy more for my grandson as he is not old enough to attend most of these function and would not be that interested either.
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this is awesome!! very similar to what my dad did for us when i was a kid. he called it "a big day with dad". there would be a card in the christmas tree for each of us kids from my dad inviting us out for a 'big day'. each kid had dad for a day and got to pick what we wanted to do. i grew up in southern ontario, it was the late 70s/early 80s and my dad owned a business - due to the recession my dad worked a TON. we usually only saw him on sundays becuz during the week he was gone for work before we got up and home after we went to bed - so having dad all to yourself for a day was HUGE!!
i'd usually pic an afternoon blue jays game followed by dinner and maybe a movie. other times is would be a later jays game and in the morning we'd do stuff like the royal ontario museum, the science center or planetarium. i remember going to a leafs game one year... heh.. they lost! ha! the most amazing big day was after we moved to bc, and in 1989 he somehow got us tickets to game 2 of the cup final!
these memories (some from 40 years ago) are still so precious, especially now that he's no longer with us.
this christmas, i'll be starting the same tradition with my kids (they are 6 and 4) - it's gong to be awesome!