christmas question about the kids?

do you feel like your child/children have all the toys in the world? my daughter is like i want this barbie and this one and this one and im like don’t you have all of those one at home she like no and im like w/e and then i went in the basement and there was like a whole box filled with barbie clothes and furniture. im so sick of seeing them all over the place its ridiculous. I just feel like she has all the toys in the world she has the whole basement filled with her toys plus her room and her play room its unbelievable. my question to you parents is when christmas comes don’t you hate it because you have to make room for the new toys and do something with the old toys. I just feel like she has every toy in the world or that we own a toy store! also i find it funny how my daughter knows which barbies she has and which ones she doesnt have!

Yes we all seem to get into this situation. My children were about 5 and 7 years old when I realised.
What I did was go and sort out with the kids all the things they didn’t want, had grown out of or didn’t play with, we boxed them all up and took them to a local orphanage.
On the way I explained that the children living there had no mummy’s and daddy’s to buy them lovely presents each year and they would love the toys my children no longer wanted and I told them how proud I was of them for giving their old toys away to a new home. After that year my children were certainly more thoughtful about other people and what they asked for. I was also more careful about the terminology I used, never asking what they wanted, but what they would wish for. It worked for me and every year after that we went shopping as a family and purchased new toys for those children, wrapped and delivered them. Today my daughter takes her two children out buys and donates new and their old no longer needed toys to the many charities that ask for toys each year and my grandchildren understand and appreciate how lucky they are to have a lovely home, a mummy and daddy and not to just expect to get exactly what they think they should have.
It is very hard and we all want to do the best for our children and the statistics say that 83% of toys given at Christmas are not played with, broken or lost by 1st Jan.

I still believe in santa claus-New kids on the block

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