Are The Criticisms Justified ...

[Bazile]

...what's your opinion ?

Do you think it's her business or is she selfish in that she is not teaching her kids the value of things , risking them growing up thinking that they can have it all ?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3352684/Mother-three-spent-1-500-300-Christmas-presents-children-insists-NOT-spoilt.html

[Mamyalynne]

I think it's her and her family's business not mine.

[andy-hughes]

If you show your stuff to moronic strangers, you will get moronic strangers' reactions.

My only surprise is that she is surprised.

Doesn't she know what social media is about?

[chiaroscuro]

'Must find out where she lives', muses Mr Burglar.

[hereIam]

I think she's perfectly entitled to spoil her kids as she sees fit at Christmas.

[ichkeria]

Her business.
Except that she seems to have made it everyone else's in these social media times

[andy-hughes]

I see 'spoiling' kids as giving them everything they want all the time, so they fail to learn the value of things, or to respect them.

A family who maybe does not buy anything for the children through the year, but splashes out at Christmas, does not fit the notion of 'spoiling' as I understand it.

For all we know the kids may have to put the toys away, and maybe bring one out every few weeks - that of course is not mentioned.

It's a knee-jerk reaction from the keyboard nasties - I'm sorry the lady was naive enough to put herself up as a target for this sort of nonsense.

[Baldric]

It's her money, she works for it (it says she runs a business) what she spends it on at any time of the year is up to her, and nothing to do with me or anyone else for that matter.

[EDDIE51]

I had similar thoughts when I heard a radio interview with a woman who spends £3000 a time on birthdays parties for 2 dogs. She even gets a chef in to cook 'teats' for them!

[Bazile]

//She said: 'You can buy your children two presents or 200 but it is the way you bring them up. They could have two presents and still be a little terror.
'My kids know the difference between right and wrong, they appreciate everything they get and they don't get spoilt throughout the year, we don't go on expensive holidays.
'If they break something like their phone they have to save up their money to replace it. //

Nothing wrong with that .

[andy-hughes]

Eddie - Teats?

That really is carrying spoiling too far!!!

[Mamyalynne]

Ouchy!!

[hereIam]

EDDIE - same as my first answer, I think that lady is perfectly entitled to spoil her dogs as she sees fit. Better than abusing them.

[pastafreak]

Her money...her right to spend as she pleases. She says she starts in January, and buys everything on sale...so she's not frivolous. And £1500 on 300 gifts is what...£5 per gift? Not even an iPad per child. ;-)

[ummmm]

£1,500 isn't that much between 4 people.

[naomi24]

Attitudes spoil children - not possessions.

[Prudie]

£1500 is probably fairly average however that number of presents would have bored the pants off me as a child before I'd opened a quarter of them.

[ummmm]

My mum never wrapped presents. When we were sleeping she'd set them up, take them out of boxes, insert batteries...etc. My presents would be one side of the room, my sisters the other and join presents in the middle.