When do your kids open their birthday presents?

[3smithboys]

It's my DS's bday today, and he opened his present from us this morning before he went to camp. We had a family dinner over this past weekend, and he got presents from my mom and his aunt then...

 

[MichelleVW]

WoW this post made me realize we dont give dd13 presents on her bday.


Our tradition is for dh,dd and I we go out to dinner on our bday. DD gets a bday party on the weekend and thats when she opens all her gifts. If her bday falls on the weekend like a saturday then we dont go to dinner because she gets a party

I am trying to remember actually buying presents/wrapping and giving them to the girls, but it's been years since I did that. They are 19 and 21 and in the past 10 years it's been, "what do you want to do for your birthday" and we would go shopping for whatever they wanted and they got it right then.

We're just not big gift givers for birthdays.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I am trying to remember actually buying presents/wrapping and giving them to the girls, but it's been years since I did that. They are 19 and 21 and in the past 10 years it's been, "what do you want to do for your birthday" and we would go shopping for whatever they wanted and they got it right then.

We're just not big gift givers for birthdays.

Same here. My dd's are 21 and 15.

Usually our "gift" is we go out to dinner where the b-day person chooses and then have cake.

 

[NikitaZee]

It's my DS's bday today, and he opened his present from us this morning before he went to camp. We had a family dinner over this past weekend, and he got presents from my mom and his aunt then...

Today's my little guy's birthday too. That's why I started this thread - when I was young we got to open our presents as soon as we woke up - even if my dad was at work. I loved having all day to play with my stuff. DH's family waited all day until after dinner and cake to open theirs. My husband got upset with me that I wanted to let our son open his first thing - but after a couple of minutes I realized how it would stink if I were the one not getting to see him open his presents. So, he got a couple of them this morning - and will get the rest when DH comes home this afternoon.

 

[jen0610]

I am trying to remember actually buying presents/wrapping and giving them to the girls, but it's been years since I did that. They are 19 and 21 and in the past 10 years it's been, "what do you want to do for your birthday" and we would go shopping for whatever they wanted and they got it right then. We're just not big gift givers for birthdays.

Same here. My dd's are 21 and 15.

Usually our "gift" is we go out to dinner where the b-day person chooses and then have cake.

Since hitting the teens, you can add me to this list as well. They usually end up with more than I would have bought on my own and given as a gift. Good for them, bad for me.

When they were little, they never got a gift left on their bed or first thing in the morning. Gifts were opened in the afternoon/evening when everybody was home. And, if DH work schedule fell just right, they didn't get to open a gift on their actual birthday, but would get to open when we could all be together. Sometime it would be the day or two before, sometimes after their birthday.

 

[JVL1018]

Always after dinner. Cake comes out, we sing, birthday boy or girl blows out the candles, then presents, then eat cake.

 

[FINFAN]

since I said I would respond to how we gave DS his gifts yesterday:
We left a small one on the kitchen table for him late Tuesday night, so when he got home ater midnight he could open a token gift (Red Bull lanyard).
The we gave him his other gifts after dinner and cake. We are getting his laptop for college tho, he knws about it but we did not purchase it yet, so another gift will prob be coming this weekend. He wnted to go and test drive a new 2013 Mustang...he got a gift card for gas instead, lol.

 

[Stitchfans]

Normally we have cake the closest weekend to the birth date so everyone can be there. That is when the gifts are opened. So often it is not exactly on the date of their birth.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

As soon as they wake up on their birthday. Even if that means we all have to wake up at 5am. We make sure all of us get to see them open the presents.

 

[sksjasams]

Gifts from friends at his party.
Gifts from DGPA and GDMA when they are visiting.

Otherwise, gifts from DH and me on his actual birthday. If it is a school day, he can open one gift (of my choice) and the card in the morning before school. Then he opens the others once we are home from work. When his birthday is on the weekend, he opens them all in the morning once we are all up.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

Our kids open their presents after dinner and cake.

It is tricky at our house since my husband doesn't get home from work until 8pm for the past couple of years. The kids aren't real thrilled with waiting that long.

If we are doing a birthday party, presents are opened at the party but we don't do those anymore now that the kids are older.