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My aunt cancelled Christmas for her son one year because his behavior had been bad for a lot of the year. She said that it wasn't like he had done any one particular thing, but overall he just was not behaving well. He probably was maybe 10-12 years old (I can't remember), and she requested that no one in the family give him any gifts. He didn't get any gifts later either.
Her reasoning was that he needed to learn that in life there are consequences for your actions. It wasn't that she usually rewarded him for behavior that she expected out of him, but she also didn't want him to feel like he could do whatever he wanted to do without suffering some consequences. She knew she could not control his behavior because that was something he had to make up his mind to do, but she could show him his actions had severe consequences. I think it was a lesson well-learned because he talks about it all the time.
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