Reply to: How do you stop grandparents from spoiling your children?

[r0bly0ns]

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

You mean Ruprect isn't real?

[Ruprect]

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

lol - tell that to all the religious parents out there

[NotAllThere]

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

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

[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 )

[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.

[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

[chef]

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

no no, just responding to a point well made

[KathyWoolfe]

is that better?

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

[Diver]

Have you considered reportng the grandparents as kiddie fiddlers?

[Board Game Geek]

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

[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.

[where did my id go?]

You willofcourse havewith you dring your visit a selection of brochures from the worst retirement homes possible.

Throw in some Dr Kvorken (or however its spelled) literature. Or that Swiss place?

Leave in a prominent position. Drop in off hand comments. Maybe take a tape measure and jot down room sizes 'Just saving the agent some time'


For Xmas I want a new keyboard- thisoneisfecked

[xoggoth]

Any spoiling of children is easily reversed, just unspoil them yourself afterwards. For every pound you feel your grandparents overspent on presents simply lock them in the coal cellar for an hour or strike them on the heads once with a coke hammer.

[Diver]

Right I'm orf.

Babysitting the Granddaughters tonight.

and unashamedly spoiling them

[chef]

Loving the avatar, BGG!

seconded.. great avatar BGG