dds 3rd birthday.

[zobey]

So dd is 3 in Jan, and I've got her everything she wanted for Xmas. I've got her for her bday, a tablet kids one cost 42.00, desk cost 19.99, duplo cost 19.99, dressing up trunk 24.99, two dresses I've had made for her 26 each. And a play house cost 179.99. I'll get her craft bits to go with the desk but do you think that's enough or am I being tight. I'm also going to get her the frozen wand that sings that she wants that's 12.99.

See, I am a sucker for wanting Dd to have a big pile of presents- only because I enjoy the excitement of seeing her open them.
But she gets one big present and then little ones like pencils, rubbers, a Jacobs ladder or a kaleidoscope, a puppet, an 'interesting toothbrush' etc.

She is delighted with whatever she gets. Your dd will be the same. Don't teach her bad habits.

I'm intrigued too fish assuming by 'elsewhere' you mean NM

I'm not going into it here. I believe personal attacks are against talk guidelines and op makes my teeth itch so I may not control myself.

It wasn't netmums.

I can just picture the op posting receipts on Facebook with a "finished Birthday shopping" message on so everyone knows how much she is spending!

Fair enough, fish :)

I've spent about £400.altogether on dp, my parents, his parents, siblings, my DD and nephews and nieces... No you aren't being bloody tight.

Shameful and more than a little odd to list the price of everything.

Fish speaks the truth here.

OP, we're not really impressed. Maybe spend some of that cash figuring out how to be happy and confident in yourself. It will benefit your daughter a lot more in the long run.

Fish you don't know anything about the way I bring up my dd. So please keep you inaccurate information to yourself.

I am happy and confident in myself, I've got a great life with my family. My dd and my family are perfect and she is advanced for her age in all areas of development. How's that been a bad parent?

So if you are confident then why did you need to post on here with a list of prices? Ah. Stealth boast. I see.

So happy and confident you have to show off run presents past a bunch of strangers online?

Like many others I would question your motives for boasting about how much you have spent. No child needs that much and it is bonkers to go without essentials to buy toys. What she will remember most is time spent with her

my dd is 3 in January also. So far I've got her nothing . In fact I have no idea what to buy her because she has an older sister, so we already have everything and I've used my ideas for Christmas (and spent a total of about 50 quid on her)

Now that's tight.

So happy and confident you need the validation of strangers on the Internet? Absolute rubbish.

Can we please not trot out the whole 'why do people buy so many presents, surely children need to spend time with their parents and feel loved' line. It's possible to buy your child some presents AND spend lots of time with them.

You are unbelievably spoiling your DD. At their age my DC had one reasonably big gift (occasionally it was something to share too) plus some little stuff. Why do you think you have to spend zillions? All kids want at that age is time and attention not showered with loads of hugely expensive presents.

Mumof2girls says it's loads and your DD will be delighted. I imagine different. She might well have a tantrum because although you have spent £££££ there is one thing you haven't got. You may ask what that one thing you haven't got is. I don't know. You don't know. Nor will your DD until she has her tantrum! Spoilt kids usually behave like that.

The world's gone mad. I presume you are on here showing off. It doesn't impress me, I find it pathetic.

Anyway, if OP is sincere, it's possible she doesn't consider the monetary value and is basing 'enough' on how a pile of presents will look put together.

I've got a great life with my family. My dd and my family are perfect and she is advanced for her age in all areas of development. How's that been a bad parent?

You might want to remember what you have previously posted before sprouting crap like that. And your daughter's development has very little to do with how you parent (unless opening gifts is now a milestone).

But why does there have to be a huge pile of presents? There doesn't. My DCs didn't have a pile of presents and they got by alright. We still had excitement with what they were opening.

(p.s. Domi ... your name made me larf which is no mean feat given the hangover I have from a christmas do last night!)

Domi if OP isn't condidering the monetary value then why list the cost of everything?

I dont envy that, hope it eases soon!
There's no need for a big pile but maybe it's something OP sees as necessary - how she was brought up, etc. I have doubts about the sincerity anyway since fish posted

True Tinkerball
I didn't know play houses were that expensive!

OP, maybe get the playhouse blinged up yeh? Lots of nice tasteful sparkles?

There's just something a bit funny to me listing the cost of everything and I can't think of any other reason apart from to show off how much she had spent. I've bought a more expensive playhouse before for my boys Christmas [embarassed] but it was wooden and more like a shed really that stores the bikes and stuff! It was also somewhere DS2 could take his friends as he shares a room with DS 3 and this was great when DS 3 was a baby. But I didnt feel the need to boast about it!