Mistakes to avoid when choosing Christmas gifts for children
Do not worry when choosing Christmas gifts for children
You’ll be stressed enough on the big day, so relax and avoid these common mistakes.
I’m a parent myself, so I know we overcomplicate the idea of choosing gifts for children. Will there be enough, how much do we spend. These are just a few of the tricks we’ve done in years past. Let’s hope you don’t fall into the same traps this year.
don’t choose gifts that are too old
As parents, we all seem to think that our children are “advanced” for their age.
So what do we do? We buy gifts that are for children a couple of years older than ours, thinking that they will provide more stimulation.
A bike that is too small, a game that needs too much concentration.
This causes two problems:-
- The gifts will not be used because the child does not understand them or is not old enough to use them yet.
- You may run out of gift ideas for your kids in later years because age-appropriate gifts were already bought (and thrown away) years before.
Buy the same Christmas gifts as your friends’ children
Envy of the Christmas present, we have all been guilty of that once. We see what our friends’ children are getting and then we run out and get the same gifts without stopping to think about whether they are appropriate or not.
Worried that there’s not enough
The closer to Christmas, the more we start to worry that there won’t be enough to open on Christmas morning. So we run to the stores and grab what we can find, putting it in the cart. With older children this seems to be a bigger problem. Young children are much easier to shop for, they like everything so it can be easy to buy lots of treats to keep them entertained.
As your children get older, they establish one or two interests. Unfortunately, they also get more expensive (game consoles, mobile phones, laptops, etc.). So unless we spend more and more each year, there will naturally be less to open each year. I hope this article helps you avoid some of these mistakes when shopping for children’s Christmas gifts this year.