A mum has revealed the four rules everyone must follow for her son’s December birthday in order to make sure it’s being kept separate from Christmas – but some of them can be seen as controversial
December is no doubt a hectic month. It’s filled with celebrations, Christmas parties and shopping for the perfect presents for our loved ones, it can seem impossible to add in birthday parties to the mix.
Most people who were born in December have at some point had their birthday and Christmas mixed together, whether they wanted to or not.
To prevent this, mum Nat LeLe said she had made up certain rules for her son’s birthday was close to Christmas, she had put in place a few rules in order to keep the sanctity of both his birthday and Christmas special and separate.
She broke down the four rules she has for everyone in order to make her son’s birthday as magical as possible, without it getting confused with Christmas.
“Number one, he get’s a big birthday party,” Nat said, explaining that she always send out the invitations for the party in October in order to make sure the guests are available.
“People actually take advantage of this birthday party. They drop off their kids and they go do their Christmas shopping, they take a little break – it’s great,” she said. “I also invite siblings just so parents can fully unplug and go do their thing.”
The second rule, she said, was that she limits the timeframe of presents, so her son won’t get any birthday presents after his actual birthday, and no Christmas presents before his birthday.
Family that lives far away can give their son’s presents to the parents in advance so that they can be given to him at an appropriate time.
“In order to keep his birthday separate and special, Christmas presents are not to be opened before that, because otherwise we’re muddying his Christmas and birthday into one big pile,” she said.
“And that also means that no birthday presents can be given after his birthday. Everything that is birthday related happens before or on his birthday, and then after that, everything is Christmas.
“Because when you have a December birthday and you’re getting gifts for like three weeks, Christmas is a little bit muddy.”
Nat’s third rule is denying all kinds of joint birthday and Christmas presents, and that they need to be separate.
She said: “It is so important with a December birthday that they are still made to be special, because a kid with their birthday in June gets all their gifts separate, they get all their Christmas gift separate. It’s not fair that these late December babies get muddied in the season.”
This went on to the fourth rule, which was no Christmas wrapping paper for birthday gifts, and no birthday wrapping paper for Christmas presents, to once again make sure that the two celebrations are kept separate.
The clip has garnered thousands of comments since it was posted – and the response has been very mixed. One said: “As a December birthday I approve.” And another wrote: “As an actual Christmas baby – thank you for doing this. Please also *continue* to care this much about it into his trend and early adulthood.”
However, a third added: “Agree on most. I do think as they get older, a combined gift may be appropriate.” And another pointed out: “I agreed with most of this, but isn’t expecting a duo gift from people outside your family a bit unfair…?”
So what do you think? Let us know in the comments below.
