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A father has explained how his toddler son ripped open all the family’s carefully wrapped presents in the small hours of Christmas morning, under the guise of being ‘helpful’.
North Carolina couple Scott and Katie Reintgen had the shock of their lives when they woke up to a Christmas nightmare, with their 3-year-old son undoing their hours of meticulous wrapping.
In a post shared to X, formerly known as Twitter, the father posted a picture of the bedazzled Christmas tree surrounded by carnage, along with a short clip to explain his son’s actions.
Scott started the video: ‘My son’s version of the events was that he came downstairs and wanted to open all of the presents so no-one was confused and they all knew what they had gotten.
![The NYT bestselling author explained his dilemma, and his son's reasoning behind the cheeky mass unwrapping was to make sure there was no confusion over what everyone got for xmas](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/12/27/17/79362785-12903241-The_NYT_bestselling_author_explained_his_dilemma_and_his_son_s_r-m-40_1703696432077.jpg)
The NYT bestselling author explained his dilemma, and his son’s reasoning behind the cheeky mass unwrapping was to make sure there was no confusion over what everyone got for xmas
The little boy woke up at 3am and discovered Spider-Man web shooters, asking his parents for scissors to cut them out, Scott told NBC News.
The father, who is a New York Times bestselling author, has two other children with his wife Katie, and lovingly refers to their menacing toddler as ‘the midnight perpetrator’.
Other presents that had been unearthed ranged from smaller-scale ones like erasers to much larger boxes, all things that had taken the couple hours to wrap the previous day.
The author told NBC: ‘He wanted us to be able to see our presents so we knew what they were.
‘I think he legitimately just felt that he was doing a service to everyone. He will not do it again next year, we hope’.
![Absolute carnage: the mess created by the 3-year-old after he decided to unwrap his parents' hard graft - hours of meticulous gift wrapping](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/12/27/08/79362661-12903241-image-a-1_1703665729574.jpg)
Absolute carnage: the mess created by the 3-year-old after he decided to unwrap his parents’ hard graft – hours of meticulous gift wrapping
Meanwhile, Katie added that their son had shown ‘no remorse’ for his actions.
But the Reintgens hadn’t given up their pursuits to deliver the best possible Christmas for their 6-year-old, who is much more compliant than their cheeky toddler.
While the tired father put the kids back to bed, mother Katie carefully taped up the torn wrapping paper in a bid to conceal her son’s antics.
This time, she placed presents up high on the mantelpiece so her cheeky son couldn’t reach them.