Never understood the christmas eve gift opening.

1) Its not christmas yet

2) 'Santa' hasn't come yet

3) Give me something to play with christmas eve and good luck getting me to bed.

4) On a related note, getting children to go to bed is way easier when they know that its just get to sleep and next thing they know, its opening presents.

Our family was all about christmas morning, even after we were all well past Santa age. And the family had to go downstairs to open presents together (which means you had to wake my dad up). The parents would take extra long getting up as we waited on the top stair held back by an invisible barrier.