is it ok to give ds teacher a home made card.

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me and ds aged 5 have just spent the best part of an hour making a card to say thank-you to his teacher.

but should i have bought one instead.

am a teacher. yanbu

When I was a teacher I would cherish something home made. I think it's a lovely idea.

i like home made bits, i've got a card from a nursery where i use to work and all the kids signed it and drew little pictures of themselves, it was heaped in glue and glitter but its a favourite and its 6 years since i left there lol x

A couple of weeks ago on the radio - prob Woman's Hour - there were some responses from teachers about whether they expected presents. Pretty much unanimously 'no', but that the gifts they really treasured were the ones children had made themselves. I'm sure the same goes for cards.

Depends why you are asking. If you are asking if the teacher would have preferred a bought card the answer is surely no. If you are asking if you should have spent the best part of an hour making the card the answer depends on whether you and DD had fun doing it. I hope you did.

In my day we never even gave teachers cards to say thank you. I think it's a lovely idea and surely a card, especially a home made one, is enough.

Of course you shouldn't have bought one! Home-made cards are lovely and I'm sure the teacher will love it.

No way a homemade one should be more special, time and effort has gone into it by the child. Homemade should be far more cherised and appreciated than a shop bought one.

Yes you should definitely have bought one [rolls eyes] then you wouldn't have had to do the boast post about what a good mummy you've been working with your DC (who has superior concentration skills) for an hour

Fuck off spiderpig.

spiderpig I sense you have unresolved anger issues. Do you want to talk about it?

Spider when other Mn's call this a vipers nest, they don't have you in mind do they?

Oh crap. Now I feel shitty for not forcing getting DS to handmake his cards :(

Haha at this thread (in a nice way)
I dont really do cards and presents for teachers. I think its a fairly newish thing. It didnt seem to happen when DD and DS1 were little and there is a ten year gap tween DS1 & 2 so it was all the rage when he started and I was a bit shocked by it all.

But I am slowly coming round to it and DS's school has been brill.

So he made FOUR (yes FOUR) cards tonight. It helps that I have a HUGE unused stash of craft stuff that I buy and never use

I sat there letting him get on with it and DS3 sticking away with some spare bits and it felt lovely.

I havent really done much of that sort of thing with them since losing DD. It felt quite an achievement even though its just a little thing.

SO YANBU at ALL.

I think it is a lovely idea a home made card I am sure it will be very much appreciated.

Today I was in the card shop and I couldn't believe all the cards and 'presents' they had on display for teachers assistants and even saw a couple for dinner ladies! I overheard a woman and her father and she was telling him that she needs to buy cards for teachers and the assistants as well of course he was saying in your day we never did things like that.

"Fuck off spiderpig."

That sentence is the funniest thing I have read all day and I don't know why. I think it's because it's like an insult a six year old would come out with. "Why don't you, why don't you, WHY DON'T YOU FUCK OF you, you, you YOU SPIDER PIG"

I am so sorry for your great loss MrsDevere, so sad, your daughter is beautiful.

Handmade cards are lovely. Much better than shop bought. I'm going to buy our pre-school teachers wine, I think they will appreciate that more than any other present.

Can everyone STOP saying that handmade cards are better than shop-bought, you're HURTING MY FEELINGS.

cupcakesandtwunting, i was just thinking that too! shall be my new "swear word that isn't a swear word that i can use in front of DS" ps must go back and finish reading your name change thread.

agree homemade is lovely.

I missed spiderpigs post.

DS has ASD and LDs. His concentration skills are underdeveloped to say the least but he is very, very good at art.

He wont ever get to university and he only learnt to write his name properly this year (he is 8) but I got bored with the project loooong before he did

Thank you mobly she is isnt she? Any excuse to mention her, even manage it on a thread about home made cards

Really beautiful MrsDevere :)

Sorry CupcakesandTwunting, shop bought is OK though- it's still a nice thought.

My sons teacher will be recieving a home made card depicting a tardis, several new aliens that will be appearing in future episodes (apparently) all splendidly rendered in Tardis Blue biro. I hope she likes it, it took him bloody ages!

How are you DeVere, you old scrote?

My cousin might have had the same difficulties as your DS. She didn't learn to write properly until secondary school really. Dead creative though. Ended up at Central St. Martins doing fashion-y type things though, the BITCH.

A home made card from a child especially is always much appreciated.

I am ok thank you very much for asking cupcakes

I quite like the idea of DS2 at St Martins. I have recently persuaded DS3 that ballet is not just for girls so now I just need DS4 to be a doctor (to add to DS1 being a rock musician) and I will have the full set!

Uber cool mumydom here I come

Homemade rules! Loads better. I always keep the homemade ones.