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If you have more than one child, buying presents during the holiday is not an easy task. Purchasing the presents is only one step. The next is to get everything home and evaluate whether there is equality among siblings. It’s not an easy task. If there is an age difference between children, it gets harder. Older children’s gifts cost more and are often smaller. And we all know that the bigger the present, the more it must cost in a child’s eye view.
You want your children to get beyond counting the presents of their siblings, but the reality is that it just doesn’t always work that way. It’s human nature and sibling rivalry. And sibling rivalry can rear its ugly head during the holidays. In the Baffled Parents Guide to Sibling Rivalry , the author Marian Eldeman Borden suggests that when children are young, before they understand the value of money, it’s a good idea to buy the same number of presents for each child. As children get older, they can understand the value and cost of presents in relationship to the quantity. I am not quite sure that I completely agree. In our family we do try and make sure that the overall gift giving is equal. However, I don’t count the number of physical presents, hoping that maybe by NOT making everything completely 100% equal that my children will learn that everyone doesn’t get the same amount of anything in life. But I will wrap my son’s small, but expensive, Ipod in a nice big box to give the illusion of a “bigger” present. Dr. Sears, in an online article of sibling rivalry, says that children want to be treated individually, not equally. But there are some children that are born scorekeepers, says Dr. Sears. And the scorekeepers can make a holiday especially challenging for the parents. So, in order to avoid running to a 24-hour CVS on Christmas Eve, take a present inventory today.
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