Aw, mom, can I open just one - please?
One, as in one early Christmas gift.
Of course, I have to admit, it's actually a family tradition that the adults in my house started - so we don't really blame the kids for asking and begging to open an early Christmas gift.
Actually, the asking starts soon after Thanksgiving - and its kind of fun to torture the child. 
"Maybe," is our single-worded answer until the day before Christmas when our answer changes to "possibly," and finally - "yes."
The choice is ours - we pick out the gift to get unwrapped early. That's also part of the fun.
Though no gift is a dud - sometimes we give what he'll perceive to be the "blandest" of the bunch (and serves as merely another fun parenting moment!)
Do you let kids open early Christmas gifts? Is there a tradition or purpose behind your Christmas Eve early unwrapping? To be honest, I couldn't come up with a good reason as to why we do either.
Merry Christmas!
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