How much money do you spend on each of your children each Christmas?

You may also answer in the percentage of your monthy income. I'm curious what others think is appropriate or excessive. Not rated on the amount or percentage only on answer quality.

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I just love Christmas and I save up all year so that we can be generous. Well we only have one son and he is grown and we normally spend between three and five hundred on his Christmas. That figure has remained pretty constant for the last ten years or so.

We will spend about the same amount on our daughter-in-law because we don’t ever want her to feel left out in any way. Then we come to the grandson and we will spend about the same on him if not a little more. Actually it will probably be more because he is our only grandchild so far and he has us wrapped around his little finger.

I have to admit though that buying for him is a little bit selfish on my part because I so enjoy watching his eyes dance as he opens his gifts. Sources: Old grandpa is my name and spoiling grandchildren is my game.

I have instilled in my children the importance of respect, grace and tact when receiving a gift of any sort. Unless your religious/personal beliefs do not promote or condone gift-giving at any time, for any occassion, kids’ expectations at Christmas are quite universal. Depending on the child’s age, the amount of money spent on a gift should correlate with their needs as opposed to their wants.

Spending more money on a gift that the child ’needs’, in my opinion, is more acceptable than what he/she wants. Younger children don’t have much of a perception regarding monetary value of a gift. A young child is more interested in visual/spacial perception.

For a young child, "the bigger, the better". In terms of gift presentation, I’ve always made it a point to ensure that the gifts are moderately equal in size. Now that they are older, my three boys have become less interested in the size; they dare not ask what the gift cost.

They each get two gifts from me/their father (when we were together it was just two); a gift to each other from the other brother(s) and (when they were younger), they were allowed to ask Santa for two things as well; making sure to guage their responses to what they ’want’ to ask from Santa long in advance! This has been an ’unwritten rule’ in my home that has worked every year. This formula has been the impetus for successfully rearing three unselfish, thoughtful and (on the way to becoming) altruistic young men.

One thing to remind yourself at this time of the year is the ’relative’ factor. How many gifts will they receive from their relatives? Sources: my children, personal opinion, trial and error aNaIs.

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