We had such a great Christmas this year, one of the reason's being that Brady was SO much fun. We made one major rookie parenting mistake, though...we actually bought him things. He didn't really care so much about the toys on Christmas day, he just had a blast opening them. Each time he tore open a present, tearing the wrapping paper into little shreds, then he would say "more, more, more" to open another. Instead of buying him new presents, I should have wrapped up things that other people gave him, old magazines, my shoes...whatever. He didn't truly appreciate all of his new things until all of the presents were open. He really got great things from everyone, and made everyone play with him. It's actually been pretty rough since we got home because he doesn't want to do anything by himself...he wants ATTENTION!!! Oh well, it was worth it!
We had such a great Christmas this year, one of the reason's being that Brady was SO much fun. We made one major rookie parenting mistake, though...we actually bought him things. He didn't really care so much about the toys on Christmas day, he just had a blast opening them. Each time he tore open a present, tearing the wrapping paper into little shreds, then he would say "more, more, more" to open another. Instead of buying him new presents, I should have wrapped up things that other people gave him, old magazines, my shoes...whatever. He didn't truly appreciate all of his new things until all of the presents were open. He really got great things from everyone, and made everyone play with him. It's actually been pretty rough since we got home because he doesn't want to do anything by himself...he wants ATTENTION!!! Oh well, it was worth it!
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