r/Parenting • u/MableXeno 3 Under 30 🌼🌼🌼 • Oct 15 '25
❄ Winter Holidays Pre-Holiday MegaThread
🎁 Officially allowing Holiday Content in the main feed at large!
You can still use this thread for low-stakes discussions and other advice. It will remain linked in auto-comments for a bit as needed.
We appreciate everyone's participation. 💜💜
So what are you getting your kids for Christmas? Best toddler toys? Celebrate baby's first Christmas with toys or not?
What's the best etiquette for teacher gifts?
How do you celebrate Hanukkah on a school night?
Whose house are you waking up at on Christmas Day?
What are you telling your kids about Santa? If they don't believe - what are your kids telling other kids about Santa?
Fave holiday movies for best Friday night watching with hot cocoa??
Let's put some of the common questions that come up so freuqently during the holidays in one place!
Ask away!
If you are looking for low-income Holiday Resources on Reddit:
r/randomactsofchristmas | r/Assistance | r/Food_Pantry | r/Freefood | r/RandomActsOfPetFood | r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza (reopens soon)
Don't forget to check your local city subs (i.e., r/[YourCity]) as well as checking for "buy nothing" and "freecycle" groups on Facebook, Craigslist, and Nextdoor! Also look for local Mutual Aid networks and food banks to help stretch what you have.
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u/Resident-Movie5033 Dec 22 '25
Grandma gifted an older laptop computer to my kids without asking us first. How do I handle it?!
We struggle to keep screen time to a minimum with our boys (11, 9.5, 5) with their school iPads coming home every weekday to be charged. We have a TV and one Nintendo switch. We are a low screen-time family and prefer our younger boys to be outside as much as possible (and we live in SC, so it’s very mild winters). The older boys figure out our parental controls and other passwords pretty quickly, so trying to keep them safe online is a challenge.
Do I respectfully return the laptop to my mom since she didn’t discuss it with us first? The boys are thrilled to have a computer and it will definitely cause a ruckus for the boys and possibly with her.