How Much Is TOO Much? Mother Showers Children with 96 Presents (EACH!) for Christmas

Emma Tapping, a mother-of-three from the Isle of Man in the UK, has been accused of spoiling her children by getting each of them 96 presents for Christmas.

From Oddity Central:

After Emma posted a picture of her Christmas Tree buried in a mountain of presents, last year, it went viral and made the rounds online with the caption “Nearly time for all the materialistic parents to compete and broadcast how many presents their kids have on Facebook! Just remember there’s some children’ who don’t get much.” After being approached by various news sites and TV shows about her Christmas shopping habit and the effect it has on her kids, the woman said that she only spoils them on Christmas, because she loves seeing the joy on their faces when they’re opening presents.

“If you ask me if I spoil my kids, I say at Christmas yes I do but I don’t throughout the year. They get the necessities, the school uniform, the things they need but we don’t go on holidays abroad or big shopping sprees,” she said. “Anything they want, they get for Christmas.”

Many online commenters accused her of “abusing” her children by showering them with so many gifts. Emma doesn’t care, though.

“When it first happened I felt like I had to stick up for the kids and say they are not spoilt. I felt I had to justify what I was doing, but now I couldn’t give a toss what anyone thinks,” she told Channel 5. “I will put a picture of my Christmas tree up this year, if you don’t like it scroll on and it is a good job I am not your mum.”

The kids, of course, love it.

Teenager Mia, nine-year-old Ella, and toddler son Tatum love their mother’s Christmas present obsession. “I love getting the amount of presents we do, who wouldn’t?”, Mia said. “I wouldn’t say we are spoilt. Everything we might of got throughout the year we get on one day. I love it.”

Hmmm. I’ll leave with one final quote from the article that sort of hints at a larger truth:

Emma and the kids admit that some of the presents from last Christmas have gone unused after being unwrapped. “I couldn’t be bothered putting it all away. Some of it got boxed on top of my wardrobe as there wasn’t room for it,” Mia said.

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