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To send Christmas cards with a picture of the DCs on?

121 replies

CruCru · 09/12/2013 17:08

Older relatives and friends of our parents like to get a photo of the kids. However I think some people think it's poncy.

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Hulababy · 09/12/2013 18:32

And is it really any different to sending out cards with a picture your child has drawn on them? Many schools and other groups do these now. I receive many of them every year at Christmas.

Nanny0gg · 09/12/2013 18:39

And is it really any different to sending out cards with a picture your child has drawn on them?

Yes. I'm sending my DGC's design this year. But at least it's of a Christmas Tree.

kerala · 09/12/2013 18:40

It is naff but I think its cute

HRHwheezing · 09/12/2013 18:41

I do

I take pride in taking a lovely photo of my two boys. I would send them to close telatives not to friends.

But my boys are still small I wouldn't do it when they are older

candycoatedwaterdrops · 09/12/2013 18:43

Cringe!!!!! Fine for grandparents but not for anyone else.

HappyMummyOfOne · 09/12/2013 18:47

They are naff and always cause a giggle here, but the round robin is soooo much worse.

NewtRipley · 09/12/2013 18:50

It's a bit naff, but practical too. I like getting a look at friends' and relatives' children. Never done it myself - used to put a printed-on-normal-paper pic in the cards of a select few who I thought might be interested

Rushyswife · 09/12/2013 18:52

Just got two cards today from friends with pics of Dc on them. I am obv super naff as I love them, and much prefer them to normal cards. Think suggesting they are self aggrandising is frankly depressing at a time of year when we celebrate the people we love!

NewtRipley · 09/12/2013 18:53

Rushy

I agree. I think some Round Robins are unintentionally boastful, but not the photos

Mintyy · 09/12/2013 18:54

Utter complete and total cringe from me too I'm afraid.

If older relatives want to see pictures of the children, send them inside a normal Christmas card.

LynetteScavo · 09/12/2013 18:55

If it's a professionally taken photo of your children enjoying the countryside in winter, then it's perfectly acceptable.

Otherwise, just stick a photo in the card.

Floggingmolly · 09/12/2013 19:00

I like them... I don't send them, mind, but we live in a different country to most of our older friends and generally only see them once or twice a year; so it's nice to keep up with how the kids are growing up.
It'd be slightly weirder getting one from people we see regularly, I suppose.

SchoolMumIsPainInTheBum · 09/12/2013 19:00

I'm sending a few to close family & friends who I know will appreciate them. It's a picture of the children dressed up for the church nativity last year, dd is mary and ds is a sheep - it's quite a funny picture and they will hate it when they are older!!!

FalalalalalalaFiggy · 09/12/2013 19:01

We hurt put a photo in card, DS is 2 next week so people still keen to see him but the idea of producing cards is a bit much.

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CruCru · 09/12/2013 19:31

Lynette - I do try to do outside photos each year but this year it was a picture of DS holding DD as she is still very new. I take the photos myself but they are nice ones.

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trinity0097 · 09/12/2013 19:33

I hate getting cards with photos of the kids on as a teacher. I think it's a bit creepy!

LynetteScavo · 09/12/2013 19:49

Oh, sibling sitting holding a new sibling is perfectly acceptable. Smile

Morgause · 09/12/2013 19:52

I don't like them at all. I don't put them up. I like a snap inside a card, though.

DontmindifIdo · 09/12/2013 19:53

Just buy enough to send out to family and people you think would like them, then buy normal cards from the supermarket or somewhere for friends. Sorted.

(Our cards this year are a mixture of a printing of a painting 3yo DS did of snowmen and a pack I picked up from John Lewis for the B list people those I don't think would like DS's card)

Bumblequeen · 09/12/2013 20:01

I would not do it. Bar very good friends, the only people truly interested in your dc are you, your parents and possibly your siblings.

A cousin of mine sent Christmas cards with photo of him and then girlfriend. I found it very naff especially as they sent it to literally everyone they knew.

notso · 09/12/2013 21:12

I like them better than the crappy Son and Daughter-In-Law, Brother and Sister-In-Law cards that are bought because they have the right relationship on the front rather than being bought because it is a nice card.
I would rather a photo card than a mug or a cushion.

giraffesCantSledge · 09/12/2013 21:23

I like it!

talkingnonsense · 09/12/2013 21:30

I love it when it's little kids in Santa hats and babygros, would be a bit bemused by older children- surely once they go to school you have to send the awful school printed PTA fundraising cards- and I really don't like them!

Funkybutnot · 09/12/2013 21:31

I love them! Go ahead it's Christmas.

ConstantCraving · 09/12/2013 21:39

Received these in the past and used to cringe, seemed a bit braggy but harmless. We used to joke about taking a happy snap of my hairy teenage boy to send back in return.
Then one Xmas I got one featuring my neighbour's new born in a Santa hat. I had just had a miscarriage (which they knew), after years of trying to conceive. I felt like I'd been slapped in the face, not their fault I guess - but seemed hugely insensitive when I was a bag of miserable hormones. Just another reason not to do it IMO.

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