4 yo DD just called my xmas pancakes disgusting

[Anonymous]

It’s so weird to me that everyone thugs it’s unreasonable to take a break in opening presents. Our rule is generally that we do Santa presents and stockings, then break for breakfast, then wrapped presents. Do you all really do all the presents before breakfast? My kids would be spiraling out from low blood sugar.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Christmas was hardly ruined. I'd be horrified if she said something so rude to anyone else. I had warned her she was going to have to pause to eat and I got up early to make sure the food was ready for her so she wouldn't have to wait long. Its not like I spanked her and she was in her room all of 2 minutes before coming to the realization that she should apologize.

She didn't need to apologize, idiot

You made her stop having Christmas so your pregnant ass could eat because God forbid you just grab a bite quickly until pancakes are ready

Listen moron, learn to read. Pancakes and fruit were ready. It would have taken her 5 minutes to scarf down the food. You need to learn to read. At least my children aren't going to grow up to become selfish brats. She's currently snuggling with me while reading one of her gifts. And she'll know not to say something so rude to others.

Am I the only one who noticed this post where OP's child was trying to snuggle with her and spend time with mom on Christmas morning, but OP was more interested in defending herself in DCUM than in spending time with her child?

When your kid is snuggled up to you but engaged in a toy, you are doing nothing but staring down at his head?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Christmas was hardly ruined. I'd be horrified if she said something so rude to anyone else. I had warned her she was going to have to pause to eat and I got up early to make sure the food was ready for her so she wouldn't have to wait long. Its not like I spanked her and she was in her room all of 2 minutes before coming to the realization that she should apologize.

She didn't need to apologize, idiot

You made her stop having Christmas so your pregnant ass could eat because God forbid you just grab a bite quickly until pancakes are ready

Listen moron, learn to read. Pancakes and fruit were ready. It would have taken her 5 minutes to scarf down the food. You need to learn to read. At least my children aren't going to grow up to become selfish brats. She's currently snuggling with me while reading one of her gifts. And she'll know not to say something so rude to others.

Am I the only one who noticed this post where OP's child was trying to snuggle with her and spend time with mom on Christmas morning, but OP was more interested in defending herself in DCUM than in spending time with her child?

So true. And OP is still on this thread with her excuses. OP is a control freak.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Christmas was hardly ruined. I'd be horrified if she said something so rude to anyone else. I had warned her she was going to have to pause to eat and I got up early to make sure the food was ready for her so she wouldn't have to wait long. Its not like I spanked her and she was in her room all of 2 minutes before coming to the realization that she should apologize.

She didn't need to apologize, idiot

You made her stop having Christmas so your pregnant ass could eat because God forbid you just grab a bite quickly until pancakes are ready

Listen moron, learn to read. Pancakes and fruit were ready. It would have taken her 5 minutes to scarf down the food. You need to learn to read. At least my children aren't going to grow up to become selfish brats. She's currently snuggling with me while reading one of her gifts. And she'll know not to say something so rude to others.

Am I the only one who noticed this post where OP's child was trying to snuggle with her and spend time with mom on Christmas morning, but OP was more interested in defending herself in DCUM than in spending time with her child?

When your kid is snuggled up to you but engaged in a toy, you are doing nothing but staring down at his head?

Of course I don't stare at their heads, I engage with them, I pay attention to them.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so weird to me that everyone thugs it’s unreasonable to take a break in opening presents. Our rule is generally that we do Santa presents and stockings, then break for breakfast, then wrapped presents. Do you all really do all the presents before breakfast? My kids would be spiraling out from low blood sugar.

I get up before the kids, have breakfast 90% ready before they come down, we open all of the gifts, and then when they're done I spend five more minutes getting breakfast ready. It's worked well for us for a dozen years now.

[Anonymous]

We go to midnight mass, open one small present when we get home. The kids wait until parents are caffeinated, open stockings taking turns so one present at a time, eat breakfast and then we finish opening gifts. The whole tear everything open, kids can’t wait a second is ridiculous no matter how old your children are.

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Anonymous wrote:We go to midnight mass, open one small present when we get home. The kids wait until parents are caffeinated, open stockings taking turns so one present at a time, eat breakfast and then we finish opening gifts. The whole tear everything open, kids can’t wait a second is ridiculous no matter how old your children are.

Totally not the point of this thread, though.

This thread is about OP's manipulative temper tantrum, not about when and how you have breakfast on Christmas morning. Frankly it wouldn't have mattered if it was breakfast that caused OP's temper tantrum; if it hadn't been breakfast it would have been something else triggered by a four-year-old.

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Christmas wise, we do grab and go food (muffins, crissiants etc) in the living room. One xmas my sister would let people open presents any time her twins were napping which was hard for older kids.

More generally, here’s what happened when my 2.5 year old called my food disgusting: my husband said “that’s not a nice thing to say.” She responded “oops. This food is really not delicious to me.” We tried to hide it but it made us laugh and she didn’t call food disgusting again. Why not teach her, next time, a more polite way to decline food?

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Anonymous wrote:We go to midnight mass, open one small present when we get home. The kids wait until parents are caffeinated, open stockings taking turns so one present at a time, eat breakfast and then we finish opening gifts. The whole tear everything open, kids can’t wait a second is ridiculous no matter how old your children are.

Totally not the point of this thread, though.

This thread is about OP's manipulative temper tantrum, not about when and how you have breakfast on Christmas morning. Frankly it wouldn't have mattered if it was breakfast that caused OP's temper tantrum; if it hadn't been breakfast it would have been something else triggered by a four-year-old.

Now a parent appropriately disciplining a child is having a manipulative temper tantrum? This thread is like a freaking alternate universe. Some of you are so incredibly nasty - on Christmas no less. The level of vitriol directed toward op is insane. So what if she didn't arrange the morning to perfectly suit a small child. Stuff happens. And yeah, the kid getting upset was foreseeable, but again, so what? That's a par bring choice op is entitled to make and if she is willing to deal with the consequences, who cares? She's a terrible person for interrupting present opening? For having family breakfast? For feeding her kid breakfast? Being stricter than her husband with discipline is also not a crime. You posters screaming about how she's a tyrant who needs to learn to forgive should look in a mirror sometime.

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Anonymous wrote:We go to midnight mass, open one small present when we get home. The kids wait until parents are caffeinated, open stockings taking turns so one present at a time, eat breakfast and then we finish opening gifts. The whole tear everything open, kids can’t wait a second is ridiculous no matter how old your children are.

Totally not the point of this thread, though.

This thread is about OP's manipulative temper tantrum, not about when and how you have breakfast on Christmas morning. Frankly it wouldn't have mattered if it was breakfast that caused OP's temper tantrum; if it hadn't been breakfast it would have been something else triggered by a four-year-old.

Now a parent appropriately disciplining a child is having a manipulative temper tantrum? This thread is like a freaking alternate universe. Some of you are so incredibly nasty - on Christmas no less. The level of vitriol directed toward op is insane. So what if she didn't arrange the morning to perfectly suit a small child. Stuff happens. And yeah, the kid getting upset was foreseeable, but again, so what? That's a par bring choice op is entitled to make and if she is willing to deal with the consequences, who cares? She's a terrible person for interrupting present opening? For having family breakfast? For feeding her kid breakfast? Being stricter than her husband with discipline is also not a crime. You posters screaming about how she's a tyrant who needs to learn to forgive should look in a mirror sometime.

Making a four year old leave her Christmas presents to eat because she, the mother, was hungry and then send her to her room for saying the pancakes were disgusting was way over the top. It was Christmas morning and the kid is four and excited.

I am saddened that you cannot see that.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, you should have let her open all her presents first. Do you not understand how Christmas works?

This.

You made a rookie mistake. Or perhaps you are a complete control freak? Either way, don't do it again.

1. Open gifts.
2. Serve breakfast. (And never force anyone to eat. People...including kids...will eat when they are hungry.)

Look what you accomplished: you ended up ruining Christmas morning. And for what purpose? Pancakes? If you were starving, then you should have grabbed something to snack on while your kid opened gifts. That's what I did (coffee and a donut).

[Anonymous]

Wow. For people who are supposedly Christian or at least are celebrating the season of “joy and giving” you are all a rude and disgusting bunch. And what are you all, including OP, doing on dcum on Christmas Day? Pathetic.

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Anonymous wrote:We go to midnight mass, open one small present when we get home. The kids wait until parents are caffeinated, open stockings taking turns so one present at a time, eat breakfast and then we finish opening gifts. The whole tear everything open, kids can’t wait a second is ridiculous no matter how old your children are.

Totally not the point of this thread, though.

This thread is about OP's manipulative temper tantrum, not about when and how you have breakfast on Christmas morning. Frankly it wouldn't have mattered if it was breakfast that caused OP's temper tantrum; if it hadn't been breakfast it would have been something else triggered by a four-year-old.

Now a parent appropriately disciplining a child is having a manipulative temper tantrum? This thread is like a freaking alternate universe. Some of you are so incredibly nasty - on Christmas no less. The level of vitriol directed toward op is insane. So what if she didn't arrange the morning to perfectly suit a small child. Stuff happens. And yeah, the kid getting upset was foreseeable, but again, so what? That's a par bring choice op is entitled to make and if she is willing to deal with the consequences, who cares? She's a terrible person for interrupting present opening? For having family breakfast? For feeding her kid breakfast? Being stricter than her husband with discipline is also not a crime. You posters screaming about how she's a tyrant who needs to learn to forgive should look in a mirror sometime.

PP here. Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh FFS. I'm a NP who saw this thread earlier in the day but wanted to be with my family rather than sucked into DCUM. .

We get it. Maybe OP's day could have gone better if she had eaten a piece of cheese. But to call OP a tyrant on Christmas Day because she sent her DD to her room after she was mouthy on Christmas Day is just a new level of irony.

To put it another way, most of the folks here have been attacking OP for infringing on the sanctity of Christmas and presents...by spending your Christmas yelling at people on the internet and calling them fat instead of being with your own damn families.

May you learn how to be more charitable in 2018.

Hahaha exactly

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Anonymous wrote:We go to midnight mass, open one small present when we get home. The kids wait until parents are caffeinated, open stockings taking turns so one present at a time, eat breakfast and then we finish opening gifts. The whole tear everything open, kids can’t wait a second is ridiculous no matter how old your children are.

Totally not the point of this thread, though.

This thread is about OP's manipulative temper tantrum, not about when and how you have breakfast on Christmas morning. Frankly it wouldn't have mattered if it was breakfast that caused OP's temper tantrum; if it hadn't been breakfast it would have been something else triggered by a four-year-old.

Now a parent appropriately disciplining a child is having a manipulative temper tantrum? This thread is like a freaking alternate universe. Some of you are so incredibly nasty - on Christmas no less. The level of vitriol directed toward op is insane. So what if she didn't arrange the morning to perfectly suit a small child. Stuff happens. And yeah, the kid getting upset was foreseeable, but again, so what? That's a par bring choice op is entitled to make and if she is willing to deal with the consequences, who cares? She's a terrible person for interrupting present opening? For having family breakfast? For feeding her kid breakfast? Being stricter than her husband with discipline is also not a crime. You posters screaming about how she's a tyrant who needs to learn to forgive should look in a mirror sometime.

I completely agree. And OP is pregnant. Usually the DCUM masses proclaim that a pregnant woman gets to do whatever she wants and everyone must cater to her needs—especially if in-laws are involved! But apparently everyone feels the need to pile on today because god forbid someone discipline a bratty 4 year old. I mean, congratulations? Y’all are superior? Is that what you wanted to hear?