Santa Threat

gifted

Has anyone ever threatened their kids that Santa won't bring them presents unless they are good....and then carried out that threat?...

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Will threaten all future children of such things.


And carry them out.


Actually, might get them some coal. It is Christmas after all

Daqster

Not in the history of time.

Bit like being on the way to the airport to go on holidays and threatening your kids that you'll go back home if they don't stop hitting each other.

Never gonna happen.

mutley18

You would have to be a right horrible bástard to carry out that threat! Unless the child in question did something particularly nasty, like drowned the family cat etc.

It's a stupid threat. Any threat of punishment that's not carried out is a stupid threat.

"oooooh, Santa brought you an iPad, you must have been a very good little girl"

Actually no - she was a little fcuker all year but now she thinks it's acceptable to be a little fcuker all year.

gifted

By the last week before xmas my 3 little girls were practically laughing at me every time I used say it to them, even I ended up laughing when I used say it , just wondering if anybody actually knew someone who carried out the threat?

Maura74

gifted wrote: »

By the last week before xmas my 3 little girls were practically laughing at me every time I used say it to them, even I ended up laughing when I used say it , just wondering if anybody actually knew someone who carried out the threat?

My son and his wife were taking their girls to the zoo and as usual they started an argument at the back of the car, they were told to stop it and if they did not they would be going back home The girls carry on fighting, the car was turned around they all went back home.

As for Christmas present the grandparents gets what the girls wants at the request of the mother.

Capt'n Midnight

For a moment I thought Santa was going to blackmail us with the contents of the naughty list.

Red Kev

Sort of.

My neighbours two kids were real brats, when they were 9-10ish they had a list of things they wanted off Santa, (knowing of course that Santa doesn't exist). They also knew that the presents had been brought already and were in storage in their uncles house down the road.

So they acted the bollix before Christmas, were threatened, laughed at it and on the day they got two small presents each, they didn't get the bigger more expensive ones. When they asked their parents why they weren't getting the rest of the stuff they were told it was because they misbehaved. threw tantrums but it stayed that way and the presents were returned to the shop after Christmas.

Kids are now around 20-21 and they still remember it, reckoned in the long run that it was a good lesson, but at the time obviously upsetting.

shane9689

"ill put you up for adoption" is another good one, my mother use to say that one all the time until i was given a new family

gugleguy

Why not take the batteries out of any electronic toys when the little tykes break the golden promise? Kinda like taking the lolly out of the hand, try with teenagers for fireworks!

Dyr

Back in the 80s my granda did it to my cousin without the knowledge of the cousins ma.

The oul fox lived with them and thought the kid was turning into a spoilt brat (he was) so he snuck into the living room late on christmas eve, took all the presents away and left a bag of potato skins. Cue much bawling christmas morning after which the cousin was given his presents and told santa must have only been warning him

Of course his mother was furious but had to play along for fear of blowing the whole santa deal.

fathead82

My mother has 3 older brothers,when she was about 7 & only her & the youngest brother believed in santa,she got a sod of turf & he got a red lorry. She tells the story every year but never told us what she did that was so bad.
Shes almost 70 now & still bitter about it.

When we were small,mam used to threaten to cut the plug off the tv if we didnt behave,one day she actually came in with a big knife & cut the plug off. Our jaws nearly hit the floor.

looking_around

Not Santa,

But my mom used to say something like "If you don't tidy your room, I'll give away everything thats not in it's place". And by god, When I was around 4 years old, she grabbed some black bags, stuffed everything in them, dragged me to the local Charity Shop and made me give them the bags.

Ever since then she'd just say "I'm grabbing the black bags" and I rush up to tidy the room. \=

mountain

gifted wrote: »

Has anyone ever threatened their kids that Santa won't bring them presents unless they are good....and then carried out that threat?...

here ya go!

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-mother-cancelled-christmas-to-discipline-her-children-20131214-2ze28.html

Tasden

Maura74 wrote: »

My son and his wife were taking their girls to the zoo and as usual they started an argument at the back of the car, they were told to stop it and if they did not they would be going back home The girls carry on fighting, the car was turned around they all went back home.
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Yeah first and only time my child had a tantrum was in tayto park, she wouldn't eat her dinner and kept messing, then she started the whining and crying while we were eating our dinner because she wanted to go to the playground, we said either eat up or be patient while we eat ours or else we're leaving, she kept up the whining so we left, she screamed the place down all the way to the car- people stared at us like we were monsters but she has never acted up again and she behaves herself rather than acting like a spoiled brat.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I love this thread. Parenting done right

Chucken

looking_around wrote: »

Not Santa,

But my mom used to say something like "If you don't tidy your room, I'll give away everything thats not in it's place". And by god, When I was around 4 years old, she grabbed some black bags, stuffed everything in them, dragged me to the local Charity Shop and made me give them the bags.

Ever since then she'd just say "I'm grabbing the black bags" and I rush up to tidy the room. \=

I used a similar tactic with my 2. I'd leave a box at the foot of the stairs and I'd fire in everything that was left lying around all week. The rule was that if the contents were not in their proper place by Friday, I'd leave the box out for the binman.

It took 3 or 4 weeks of leaving the box out but they got the message.

clairefontaine

The Santa threat is a strange one.

Childhood is a stage of innocence because it's the only time you believe you are good just because you exist.

To bring in the ideas of bad and good, contaminate this innocence imo. And it lasts for such a short time. So I avoid the bad and good scheme of control, and try to focus more on the awareness of natural consequences. For example, leave that lego all over the floor and there is a very high probability mom wont see it and will hoover it. And that is exactly what happened day.

Whining in the car. Keep whining in the car and you are distracting the driver (me) which means its unsafe to drive and I will have to stop and then we will miss the playground because it will be too late and you will have worn me out so I will be too tired to go to the playground.

I slip often into the naughty nice paradigm, but try not to, obviously because I was raised in that way- hard to shake off.

anncoates

I know somebody who claims their parents actually played a trick by leaving coal in the stocking and watching the reaction before unveiling the hidden presents.

I wasn't sure whether to laugh or be aghast.

Sulla Felix

shane9689 wrote: »

"ill put you up for adoption" is another good one, my mother use to say that one all the time until i was given a new family

A grimmer one that went around in a first cousins family was "I'll sell you to the Arabs". Apparently they had a thing for redheads too.

anncoates

Being threatened that you'd be given to travellers and taken away in their caravan was a popular 80s one in Dublin.

Red Kev

anncoates wrote: »

Being threatened that you'd be given to travellers and taken away in their caravan was a popular 80s one in Dublin.

My Aunt (over 70, "old school") still says to her grandkids "Behave now or I'll sell you to the tinkers", when they're out in public. Sometimes it's gas it's so un-PC.

uch

anncoates wrote: »

Being threatened that you'd be given to travellers and taken away in their caravan was a popular 80s one in Dublin.

It was the Rag and Bone man in the 70's :eek:

Polka_Dot

I remember in primary school being shocked when kids that were complete bolloxes (who'd personally bullied me etc) got presents from Santy instead of coal. It actually sort of upset me because I'd always try to be good! :pac:

Femme_Fatale

"I'll send you to the Good Shepherds" shut kids up in Cork. I doubt those parents realised how awful the place actually was.

pharmaton

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

"I'll send you to the Good Shepherds" shut kids up in Cork. I doubt those parents realised how awful the place actually was.

I got that threat as well, but it sounded like a good deal to me and I was always hopeful they'd follow through with it. They were 'good shepherds' after all, what could possibly go wrong?

clairefontaine

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

"I'll send you to the Good Shepherds" shut kids up in Cork. I doubt those parents realised how awful the place actually was.

Shut up or I'll slap you into next week.