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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your arrangement sounds terrible for the child. Sorry to have to say that.   Why cant they see their other parent for Christmas?
Our ex and I do Christmas separately.  He buys them gifts.  I buy them gifts.  After all, isn't that the one perk kids think of divorce? Two Christmases?
In any case, the one thing we do is that the kids buy ex a present.  And ex helps kids buy me a present.   It can be small but it helps kids be involved in gift giving and ensures that us single parents actually get a gift if we don't have family etc. [/quote]

OP here. Yeah, it’s not ideal for our child, who would likely want time with both parents at the holidays, but it is my ex’s choice. My ex has decided recently to embrace a different religion  and won’t be celebrating christmas (but isn’t against our child continuing to celebrate Christmas which we will).

I guess the easiest thing is just to buy the gifts myself and give them. I don’t have to expressly state that they are from both parents or not. And if my ex chooses to celebrate the holiday with our child when they have parenting time at a later date, then they certainly can. With gifts or not. [/quote]

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