To think this is a nice Christening present

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and not 'sucky'

DNiece is getting Christened tomorrow. I have bought this present as I really think its a nice gift. Showed DH this morning while I was wrapping it up and he said it was rubbish and sucky.

We have this book. It was a 1st birthday present for DD and now she is 4 she loves it and we read it very often! I think it's a great present.

Lovely and DDs tend to appreciate reminders of milestones as they get older.

DD2 is a great one for photos and things from when she was tiny.

DD1 went ballistic that I'd given away her board book bible, she was 12.

Peter Rabbit won't be gathering dust in MY house & I already have my Peter Rabbit bowl, cup & plate saved for DD to use.

I never had a collected edition as we had the individual books but they are at my parents house so if someone buys DD the collection I'd be delighted.

I have AA Milne books which were my dad's, so love the fact DD will be reading her Grandad's books. I also have a proper antique copy of the Tailor of Gloucester but I might keep her away from that if it's valuable...

I always buy books for Christening presents. I found out that my SIL said "what kind of gift is this for a baby?" when she opened my gift for Dniece. However, my SIL is as thick as a brick and never reads. She got DD a load of plastic tat for her Christening.

Sucky = it sucks

Thank you. I am the gift buyer in this house and I like to think I am quite good at choosing for people, so I am glad you all think its nice because I was having a bit of a wobble.

PoorAudrey I have a friend who bought books for her godson only to get a thank you note saying 'thank you but he doesn't really read books'.

I think the child in question did have some SNs but she had gone to a lot of trouble to pick out suitable books for his abilities, not just picked stuff up at random. To get a response like that just makes me

Perfect!

I'd be thrilled to bits if somebody got a complete Beatrix Potter set for one of my DCs. It's a lovely gift, your DH doesn't know what he's talking about.

Are you going to sign it?

DS has this. Tis wonderul. Your H is a philistine of the Mr McGregor variety.

It's lovely, much better than those dust-collecting-shove-to-the-back-of-the-cupboard silver birth certificate holders and the like.
I am biased because I love books.

It's a lovely present, perfect for a christening.

Your husband is a rude arse. And an immature one at that for using the word "sucky". Is he 8?

ds1 had a few books. Inside the front cover was written '

Dear ds1, We love you today and always with love and best wishes godparents then dated it

ds1 now loves the stories

'thank you but he doesn't really read books'. Oh my god, how rude! My DD's got some shocking presents from people mainly one particular aunt and even when she got a broken china tea set we still said thank you and then promptly chucked it all when we got home. The same with the skipping rope she got my then 2 year old. "Thank you very much" before it ended up the same way as the tea set.

When someone gives you a gift, surely you just say, "thank you very much" even if you don't like it. Obviously it's different if it doesn't fit/you have multiples of the same thing, but otherwise stick to a thank you.

It is a lovely present and I'm sure it will go down well. However I can see your husbands point a little someone bought my son one of the boxed hardback book sets as a present when he was born (he's now 10) and I recently sold it on ebay and put the money into his savings. The books had never been looked at or read as I find them so dull!

I think it's lovely. What gift would your DH consider appropriate and non-sucky (!) ?
Does it suck because it's a book?

I think it's lovely.

What non-sucky present is he bringing?

I bought my nephews books the day they were born, too (as well as a tiny teddy bear each) - the Very Hungry Caterpillar & a poetry collection for children which I wrote inside 'for when you are older'.

Hungry Caterpillar became a firm favourite & was always pleased to see how excited they were when it was taken off the shelf. True, it may not be a present that would last forever, but if it gets good use & falls apart or gets handed on in later years, I'm happy it has been enjoyed!

it is lovely
dd got one for her christening

I didn't get my DC christened but if I had I would have loved something like that.

YANBU Your DH is.

I recently asked some parent friends for christening/birth present advice, and two of them said, independently, 'a complete set of Beatrix Potter books'. They're a lovely choice, and will hopefully open the door into a lifetime of reading and dressing up bunnies in little blue jackets.

marshmallow. Sorry but he doesn't read books
Who doesn't read books? And to be graceless enough to actually say it!
You should have offered to have his ears pierced instead, bunch of Neanderthals!

I don't know ahat 'Sucky' is, but DS got a Whinnie-the-Pooh one of these, it's a nice idea but the book is too big and cumbersome to read easily, so I returned it and got the cash it stays on the shelf gathering dust. An individual set of books would be more practical.

But it's waaaaay better than most silver-plated-teddy-moneybox christening crap.

perfect gift.
May use it myself oneday as and idea.

Beautiful - I would have loved for dd to receive one when she was christened.

It's lovely. Dd got the box set equivalent for her dedication last month. Much more useful than a "keepsake" piece of tat silver egg cup or the like, which thankfully she didn't get.