How do you stop grandparents from spoiling your children?

[Alf W]

Win-Win solution.

Let the grandparents spoil them rotten and then eBay the lot soon afterwards apart from the best stuff. kids soon forget absent toys.

[Board Game Geek]

Why thank you. I think it's a counter-balance to the Pro-Vermin Party.

[Diver]

Have you considered reportng the grandparents as kiddie fiddlers?

[KathyWoolfe]

is that better?

I didn't mean it as a criticism...

[chef]

I didn't mean it as a criticism...

no no, just responding to a point well made

[KathyWoolfe]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis.

congratulations on a perfect signature

[dude69]

what a misery.... My kids will be getting loads of toys, that's because I'm a loaded contractor and I can.

That doesn't make them spoiled.

Oh no! Little Johnny has been given a football for Christmas, quick burst it and then send it back.

[Ruprect]

Some excellent suggestions. WDMIG - I like the brochure idea.

Dude - I'll be getting them presents myself - its just my belief that the children should only get one sack of presents, and that that should come from us/santa. Last year it was literally a sack of presents from each granny, making that 3 sacks of presents each. That is OTT IMO, and hence the thread. That's why most of them will be staying at granny's house (or going on ebay )

[NotAllThere]

... and that that should come from us/santa....

You wicked person, leading your children into believing in an imaginary being.

[Ruprect]

You wicked person, leading your children into believing in an imaginary being.

lol - tell that to all the religious parents out there