Ds9 best friend is moving, present ideas 😩

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Ds9 best friend is moving back to Poland in a few weeks. He’s absolutely heartbroken and I feel so gutted for him. He wants to get him a present for him to remember Ds by. They both love football.

Help 😩

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Obvious: but maybe a football or football top (favourite team) signed by your DS and other friends as a keepsake?

A shirt would be good as you could also frame it.

A lot of clubs are very good about things like this so if time is on your side you might even be able to get key players of their favourite team to sign also if you contact them.

My dd emigrated at nine and left every one if her friends behind. Her class made her a book of messages and she read it so many times. A photo would be good, of them together. We take photos but we do t print them out.

The best thing you could do is find out what devices the friend has access to and help them keep in contact by iMessage or whatever.

Do you think they'll keep in touch? If so, what about a mocked-up plane ticket for DS to go over next summer, and identical travel journals so they can plan the trip together and full it in whilst there.

Isn't a mocked up plane ticket a bit cruel?

Only mocked up before a real ticket is bought. Sorry, didn't make that clear enough.

Get both kids to take lots of photos of them selves, fav places , meals , family , home, bedrooms .
Get them to write stories, poems , thoughts and feelings etc
Do this over as long a period ( a few months ) put them in a scrap book so the book is about a quarter full , then on a agreed date post them to each other .
Your DC then gets to read see every thing his pal is up to and visa versa.

Then they both put more things in the book they received and repost after another month or so.

Myself and a friend did this many many years ago when we were kids and she moved to the opposite end of the country over a period of years we filled 6 books with lots and lots of memories . Much better than social media and for children it's safer plus the memories of there forever and wont accidentally get deleted.