What do you do with kids on Christmas day (if you don't travel or have a house full of people?)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know a family that does family Olympics. Lots of different games or challenges for points and they have a trophy they keep all year.

JFC who are these people?! How do parents have the energy for that?

It honestly sounds annoying to me. This is the kind of thing my mom and/or older brother would have organized for my family when I was a kid and the rest of us would have hated. Take a day that is already designed to be really relaxing and pleasant, and turn it into a competitive "forced fun" event. Christmas is the one day a year where every single member of the family receives gifts. So everyone has something to do or read or put together. The house looks festive, there's usually one big meal, and there are easy options for spending time together -- watch a holiday movie (or just a movie you all love), play a board game, or just relax in the same room listening to music while people do their own thing. WHY would anyone want to spend that time doing Family Christmas Survivor? It makes no sense.

My competitive family of origin- including me- would have LOVED it! We would have board game marathons, games of Risk that lasted a full week, games of HORSE on the basketball hoop, cookie baking competitions- and we all thought the friendly competition made these things even more fun! We'd sometimes give out prizes for things like board game marathons (like, winner gets to pick where we go to dinner or something, nothing major). To clarify, it wasnt necessarily on christmas, just other days where the whole family was home together. My current family (husband and kids) wouldnt enjoy this as much though.

It does make me look forward to big family vacations with my 2 brothers. We break out a board game like Monopoly the first night, and our spouses and kids slowly back away from us and go enjoy a movie while we play to the death over some drinks.

Sounds miserable

[Anonymous]

Play with Christmas gifts, watch a movie, go to the playground.

[Anonymous]

Travel! I love flying on Christmas!

[Anonymous]

Scramble may be open

[Anonymous]

I can’t imagine having kids with “no chill.”

[Anonymous]

Boys, no chill.

Christmas Ave:
Ski, Visit Santa, Candlelight Church Service, Bake cookies, watch holiday movies

Big breakfast- hot cocoa, sausage and egg casserole, pancake bar with toppings, fruit salad.

Open Gifts.

Go skiing for a few hours

We have fondue two ways for dinner. Steak and veggie with cheese then we do chocolate with a board of items to dip.

Christmas Movie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boys, no chill.

Christmas Ave:
Ski, Visit Santa, Candlelight Church Service, Bake cookies, watch holiday movies

Big breakfast- hot cocoa, sausage and egg casserole, pancake bar with toppings, fruit salad.

Open Gifts.

Go skiing for a few hours

We have fondue two ways for dinner. Steak and veggie with cheese then we do chocolate with a board of items to dip.

Christmas Movie

Sounds amazing

[Anonymous]

Playing with their new toys should take up quite a bit of time I would think. And then a movie. What about video games?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t imagine having kids with “no chill.”

So you have never been around kids?