To not get DD to give Christmas cards to the other children in her class?

[muminthecity]

DD is in reception, in a class of 22, at least half of whom don't celebrate Christmas. She has only bought home one Christmas card so far. Would it be unreasonable of me not to bother?

Does your DD want to? will she write the cards herself? DS1 wants to give around 12 cards to his little friends - I've told him he can if he writes them. The list has now gone down to 3

DS is almost 4 and in final year of private day nursery and this is the first year I have bothered but I asked him for names of children he played with, double checked with staff we hadn't missed anyone, let him choose cards and I wrote them and he drew a pic in each. We loved doing it but I wouldn't be offended if he didn't get any back.

DD hasn't mentioned anything about it, she is capable of writing them herself but would probably see it as a chore rather than something fun if I did ask her to do it. I am just worried that she'll come home on Friday (last day of term) with 20 cards and I'll be the only one who hasn't bothered!

No one will notice if you don't do it.

Seriously, is anyone going to sit down with a pile of Christmas cards and a list of people in the class and check who has sent them and who hasn't?

I wrote 64 cards out for my DSs classes the other day.
Its just what you gotta do

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Seriously, is anyone going to sit down with a pile of Christmas cards and a list of people in the class and check who has sent them and who hasn't?"

I really really hope not -as DS1 and 2 are currently sat in the dining room writing their cards..........a cheap box of 30 each to send to whoever they wish - teachers, fellow class mates, other friends in the school, friends at church - I don't care - they know that once they're finished they finished (and if they're not finished they'll be saved for next year )

I bought the cards for them to send last Christmas and they didn't send a single one

I never send cards so certainly wouldn't expect my kids to! I bought a box of cheap ones as the younger ones wanted to give a card to their teachers but it definitely not something I would encourage (or worry about!!)

I think it's nice to send them to others in the class if possible. It's just a way of spreading goodwill. If not all of them celebrate Christmas it's still OK to send them good wishes IMO. You might even receive some nice cards back for other festivals that you don't celebrate :)

Thank you for the replies. Maybe I'll mention it to DD tomorrow and see if she wants to do it or not. I certainly won't make her if she doesn't want to.

ShoppingDays - DDs favourite celebration other than Christmas is Eid as we always get tonnes of foodie gifts from our friends. We give them food presents at Christmas as well

My ds is in reception and about half his class are muslim - he has had loads of cards from both muslims and non muslims and everyone has got involved in Christmas parties/ play etc just as they did for the Eid party. I wonder if it depends on how the school approaches the subject of celebration and different faiths.

DD (9.7) really wanted to send everyone in her class a card. I got a box of 20 for a euro, she wrote them out and they've sat in her bag for nearly a fortnight.
She finishes school tomorrow so she had better get her finger out if she wants them to be given.
TBH, she falls in and out of friendships so frequently I fear I've wasted a whole euro that I could have spent on fags.

Yanbu

I don't do cards for grown ups nevermind children