Day 4: 25 Days, 25 Ways to a Better Christmas morning

This episode we will explore the good and the bad about Christmas lists. We might have our kids make them or we might not. Either way...you will want to hear this episode about our kids' expectations when they have a list. :)
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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Hey friends, day four of our 25 days, 25 ways to a better Christmas morning, and today is about Christmas lists. So some of you may have your kiddo make a Christmas list. Maybe they make them at school. Maybe you need the Christmas list to make sure that you have something on the list under the tree, whatever that might look like. So just a quick little reminder here that Christmas lists are great because I think it does provide us some of our kids' expectations, because you see, when they write it down it's not just oh, I would love for this to happen.

Speaker 1: 0:50

To some degree, this is sort of both their hope and their expectation, right.

Speaker 1: 0:53

So as you think about what they have written on their list, or if you're going to have them write a list, it may be a good thing to remember that sometimes in their minds they are kind of expecting these things and so you might have to have a conversation.

Speaker 1: 1:12

Otherwise they may be disappointed on Christmas morning if there is nothing from their list under the tree. I have my kids kind of circle, you know the three things that they would really love to have, and have them kind of think about what would be reasonable for Christmas morning, whatever that might look like for you, but just know that in their minds, even though they know it's a wish list. In a lot of ways it's kind of an expectation list for them, at least for some things. Because on Christmas morning you don't want to have the argument of I didn't get anything on my list and then you go down this kind of rabbit hole of you're being ungrateful and the kid kind of went into it with the list and they told you exactly what they wanted and then you didn't get it and then it's all right. So just go into it preparing ahead of time for those things. If you are having them create a list, all right, we'll see you tomorrow.