Is this a thing for valentines now???

[DailyMailHater]

Now I will start this by saying when we were dating / engaged my husband and I did do gifts / cards for Valentine’s Day but since we have been married we don’t and our wedding anniversary is the day we tend to mark.

Well this morning, my social media is full of pictures from people I know and the valentines presents they have bought for their children, the kids seemed to be getting multiple gifts…chocs, flowers, pjs, clothes, toys, sweets…One had all the gifts for her child on the sofa like it was a birthday, with a caption “can’t wait for (child’s name) to see this in the morning so they know how much I love them”
it never even occurred to me to purchase valentines items for my children I didn’t realise this was a thing if it had been one person I wouldn’t of thought much of it but seems to be the majority around here….I think it is madness.

@HerbErtlinger

I bought my kids a chocolate heart each from poundland. Not a big deal and certainly not piles of gifts, just something fun to break up the day

This made me laugh

Next big retail opportunity innit, to plug the gaping void between Christmas and Easter.

Oh, forgot Burns Night, Chinese New Year, St Patrick's Day.......

Oh live and let live. Don’t waste your energies feeling pissed off about someone doing something with their kids that is ultimately going to cause no harm at all.

But it does, doesn’t it? Kids upset because they didn’t get anything, it’s hard enough when they’re teens and don’t get a card!

Oops that wasn't the post I wanted to quote that made me laugh.
I'm such a muppet.

It’s only a matter of time before someone strips down a redundant elf on the shelf and turns him into a Cupid for the Stupid.......

@Lovemydoggie

My children are adults now . I vaguely remember buying them chocolates one year from me ..I decided it was a silly idea and I ate them myself 😋

This

Thank you,I have to say I learned from the best ♥️ My mom loved to send a card & it's passed down to me,seeing my little boys face this morning was lovely after a tough few months

If people want to waste their money on naff gifts so that their little darlings don't feel left out, that's up to them. But it's contributing to a generation of kids who feel entitled to everything.

I brought DH and I a Belgian Bun for later and they were next to teddy heart ginger bread biscuits so I brought the kids one. That's it.

It’s my first valentines without my late dh and my dds bought me a card and signed it from my husband, it was beautiful and totally unexpected. I’m cooking them and me a roast dinner and we’re watching films. I have bought them a little present each.

I know Valentine’s Day is associated with romantic love but so many people are alone or have lost people especially over the last 2 years and perhaps it just makes the day a bit more bearable.

I think that Valentine’s Day should be renamed love day, ( yes I expect to be laughed at) which celebrates any kind of love and appreciation for anyone special in your life

Can you imagine when they’re an adult and their partner having to
A. Live up to those to expectations
B. Compete with the mother still lavishing gifts on Valentine’s Day

Utter madness.

It’s not a thing. My husband always brings home some flowers on Valentine’s Day for dd. Her birthday is the week before Valentine’s and the year she was born I was having a hard time with pnd and her colic and struggling to breastfeed etc. He brought home some flowers to cheer me up and it just happened to be Valentine’s Day. When I got better and got my mental health under control it evolved into him bringing home flowers for dd and us remembering and being grateful for how far we’ve come as a family. We certainly don’t post it on social media.

It’s strange and really rather creepy.

It's all just getting too much now! Started with Christmas Eve boxes, then it's personalised balloon displays for the first day of school and now Valentine's goodies. My mum maybe bought us a chocolate heart lolly when we were kids but my god the amount of posts I've seen on social media today with kids getting heart shaped balloons, teddy bears, chocolate covered strawberries etc, it's madness!

Married for 31 years and happy.
No cards, flowers, chocs or meals out here.
I did pat him on the hand and say, "Happy Valentines Day' at stupid o'clock this morning whilst drinking the cup-of-tea-in-bed that he has made every day since we moved in together in 1984. That's love.

It’s the huns. There’s so many of them.

My dc are on half term this week, we went out to the food shopping and they asked to get each other a Valentine's treat, sweets, and decided they should get me some flowers. Of course being 8 and 5 they didn't have money on them so I paid 😂 they did pick me a lovely bunch of flowers and dh a bar of chocolate.

You’ve got to be quite miserable to find an issue with this

@ghostmouse

It’s my first valentines without my late dh and my dds bought me a card and signed it from my husband, it was beautiful and totally unexpected. I’m cooking them and me a roast dinner and we’re watching films. I have bought them a little present each.

I know Valentine’s Day is associated with romantic love but so many people are alone or have lost people especially over the last 2 years and perhaps it just makes the day a bit more bearable.

I think that Valentine’s Day should be renamed love day, ( yes I expect to be laughed at) which celebrates any kind of love and appreciation for anyone special in your life

I'm not laughing at you @ghostmouse

I'm so sorry for your loss and so pleased your DDs are rallying round for you. I hope you have a lovely evening together.

I think 'love day' is lovely thought

It's the same idiots that do Elf on the Shelf and Christmas Eve Boxes with 'new jammies and hot choccie' in....

@Justleaveitblankthen

No it's not a thing! Valentine's Day is about Romantic love. End of. Kids have just had Xmas and they get a bloomin' birthday don't they? Bloody hell, what's there to look forward to if all their needs are constantly met by mummy and Daddy? 🙄 I have adult DC and they would have been mortified if they received anything from me ( worth it for a laugh only ) 😄

I do wonder how all these DC will cope with life once they reach adulthood and realise it’s not just one big event after another with people bombarding you with gifts and suchlike. They are going to be very disappointed with the mundane every day.

I was glad dd gave me the heads up that she saw it as a general love day - she bought and made me gifts, and due to advance warning I was able to get her something. I still wasn’t sure whether they were meant to be pretended from secret admirers, but apparently not, we just exchanged loving gifts. Which is a nice thing to do.

I got my three a pack of red and white sweets each with a note wishing them each a happy valentine's day from mum.

No biggie. Trying to train them to remember to treat future partners with a bit of thought ... not extravagance, just a bit of thought. Nothing wrong with that.

@Queeniepies

It's the same idiots that do Elf on the Shelf and Christmas Eve Boxes with 'new jammies and hot choccie' in....

Agree!

The competitive condescension on here is predictably palpable.

It is harmless. If you really believe Sandra on Facebook giving her daughter a balloon and a teddy is going to make your child come home and say “where’s my balloon, mummy? Why don’t you love me?” then surely you can take that opportunity to speak with your child about it and educate them to your say of thinking and if you so desire, teach them to mock the little gesture that Sandra chose to do for her kid.

I don’t even go in for Valentine’s Day but I find the constant scorn on here for everything, irritating. The worst being when posters are berated for being upset when their selfish husbands ignore their birthdays.