Ah Christmas morning, the tree all a glow, the smell of fresh brewed coffee and pine needles wafting throughout the house, and the kids rushing to see what Mom & Dad Santa has brought them. Life is just perfect, until the first CD is unwrapped by your precious pre-pubescent prodigy, or worse yet the teenager(s) of the house. Yes, that moment of dread - will they like it? Well folks the answer to that is almost certainly no. Face it parent, you are out of the loop and there is no hope of ever getting inside it again either. Yeah you're going to hear that dreaded cry "What a crappy present" - oh yeah - you're screwed.

You should know by now - never, never, never try to prove to your kids that you too are cool - hep - hip - with it type dude and that you can pick out with it gifts for them. You just know it ain't gonna work, that present you just bought was yesterday's fad or it went from seriously cool to deadly embarassing to own in the time it took you to go from the cash register to the store door.

But wait help is at hand! Don't dissapoint your kids on Christmas Morning AND look cool in the process. Go to www.whatacrappypresent.com and get the advice you as a parent need! In the spirit of Fuck the RIAA www.sendthemback.org, Nick and Holmes the creators of www.downhillbattle.org offer some wise advice to parents on hteir new site www.whatacrappypresent.com