He Accused His Wife Of Ruining Christmas Fun For Their Kids And He’s Telling The Internet She’s Acting Like He’s The One Who Ruined Everything
A man is married to his wife, and together they have twin 5-year-old sons; Nick and Kai. Ever since Nick and Kai were little, they loved decorating for Christmas and getting into the holiday spirit.
Earlier this year, the whole family moved into a house that’s bigger than the one they used to live in, so Nick and Kai were thrilled to have much more room for Christmas decorations.
“The last couple of days haven’t been so great,” he admitted. “Last year my wife wanted all of us to do decorations exactly how she wants it and the boys mostly listened, well about as much as any 4-year-old would.”
“On multiple occasions, my wife has gotten frustrated with them because “they’re not decorating right” and they want to do things how they want.”
“Such as how to make their own gingerbread houses or what way they want to decorate their rooms. My wife doesn’t like how they want to set out their ornaments or stockings.”
He has pulled his wife aside and spoken to her multiple times about how their sons are only 5, and it’s ok for them to have fun even if their decorating skills aren’t perfect.
“She always gets mad because that’s not how it’s supposed to be done,” he continued.
“Me personally I don’t see how it’s a big deal that a child wants to put a cut out of a snowman they drew on paper up on the tree as an ornament.”
One of the twins had created this little paper snowman specifically because they thought it would be great on the Christmas tree.
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When he came home the other day, he saw his son Kai in tears, with his wife attempting to speak with him.
Kai was sobbing that he absolutely hates Christmas and no longer wants to be part of the holiday.
He then cried about how his mom would not allow him to place gumdrops on the roof of his gingerbread house.
He once again said something to his wife about this, and he felt things were really getting out of hand.
In response, his wife just told him that Kai wasn’t allowed to put the gumdrops on the gingerbread house because it just looked bad and like a mess.
“For me, I kind of lost it a little,” he revealed. “I told her to stop being ridiculous. Let the kids have their fun.”
“My wife says she’s just trying to get them in the Christmas spirit so they can enjoy and I told her “No all you’re doing is ruining it for them.”
His wife called him a jerk because she somehow thinks what she is doing is making Christmas great for them.
He totally gets that Christmas is important to his wife, but he dislikes the fact that she’s been forcing the kids to decorate the way she thinks is best.
There’s no room for his kids to be creative and have a good time. On top of that, now his sons have completely stopped helping with any decorations, which is making his wife feel bad.
Here’s what the internet had to say.
“She’s doing a great job of killing the Christmas spirit though.”
“I had a mom like this where aesthetics were more important than personal things or “fun” things.”
“Never hung up homemade ornaments, she even took down a family photo (our only family photo) to put up some art because it matched more.”
“I resent her for it, you should talk to your wife again and hopefully she’ll realize that she’s robbing her kids.”
“She is making it memorable alright- for all the wrong reasons. As you say they are five. The correct response for decorations made by kids at that age is to praise the effort.”
“And if it was really ugly then my Mum would then just discretely put it towards the back of our main tree.”
“If she wants an Instagram perfect Christmas then she needs to do it on her own.”
“Don’t yell at children for not making things ‘perfect’. Let them make their own mini versions where they get to do whatever they want and she can make the ‘family’ one that can go on insta/facbook/whatever for the oohs and likes”.
“I guarantee that the ones that you’ll look back on fondly are the unique ones with the ugly decoration made at school/kinder, not the generic matchy ‘it could be any tree in any house at any time’ look.”
“My great aunt would literally just put all the stuff to decorate gingerbread houses on the table and say “go nuts” and me and all my cousins would make the most horrible looking gingerbread houses with way too much candy and it’s honestly one of my favorite holiday memories, if my aunt or mom was over my shoulder telling me 10 chocolate Santas couldn’t possibly all live in that one house I don’t think that memory would be so lasting.”
“We do gingerbread houses for all the holidays they make them for (Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, thanks Trader Joes!) and tbh I’ve struggled before, watching my girls decorate them in ways make would anyone who likes symmetry twitch a little.”
“But the fact is IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME! The whole point is for them to express their creativity and then get to destroy it by eating it piece by piece over the next couple of weeks, jeez.”
“My son had his own little tree in his room that was pre-lit. He was able to decorate it how he wanted and we went and he picked out ornaments he wanted and he even took a few from the family tree because he liked them.”
“He loved it and really enjoyed seeing it when he went to bed. Who cares if things aren’t perfect.”
“Perfection is a misnomer and unattainable so attempting it will only make you unhappy because you can never be perfect.”
“..Have a family meeting and everyone should have a chance to discuss how they feel and what they want so they can enjoy the holiday season.”
You can read the rest of what the internet had to say here.
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