Long Lasting Presents Period

Presents, who don't love getting lots and lots of presents. Either birthday or Christmas or rewards presents. Specially children, they love their presents. The issue now, whether they appreciate all their presents and use them wisely, or they are too excited and confused to choose which one to be played with first.

I remember the first time my son (at the age of 2) understood the idea of presents, we let him opened and played all the toys at the same time. We saw some excitement but also confusedness. Too many toys or books or anything around him. He couldn't barely enjoy each things properly. We did end up to put away some of the things.

So, at next year, we did something different instead. Either on his birthday or Christmas, we still let him un-wrapped all his presents, but instead also open the boxes (for some of the present who came in the box), we asked him to choose 1 or 2 toys to play and enjoy for the day. What about the other presents??? The rests will go to his bedroom and he allowed to open and enjoy another 1 or 2 new present(s) each day or whenever he got bored with the old ones. We knew that he was tempted to use all the presents, but we luckily made him understand and he did find opening 1 or 2 things each day or whenever he got bored with the old ones made himself got more presents everyday. Apart from that he finally found the full enjoyment of each thing. For the record, even last year each present could last for 3 to 7 days, so he got his excitement last longer too since he opened the rest every 3 to 7 days after.

I understand some of us like to throw lots and lots present to our children, and probably some of our children could find the joy of opening and using all the presents at the same time. But what I wrote here is just a thought of giving an option/idea for your children to appreciate and enjoy their presents more.