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To return the class bear with a note saying thanks, but no thanks

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Wailywailywaily · 08/02/2015 16:15

DS has the Reception class Bear to entertain this weekend. The bear has two books full of his previous adventures and TBH he has a busy life.

I'm ashamed to say that he has now spent the entire weekend in his suitcase Blush.

DS gets a lot of homework for a reception child IMO - spellings, drawing and reading - and I can't be bothered to make him come up with an adventure for the Bear as well.

So I was thinking that the Bear seems to need a rest anyway and perhaps it would be just fine to send him back having had a good long snooze?

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Libitina · 08/02/2015 19:09

We had the class rabbit once for a weekend. It died the following weekend what a lucky escape sad thing.

mrsmootoo · 08/02/2015 19:11

YABU. It's a pain sometimes, but you kind of have to do it....

Shockers · 08/02/2015 19:25

Ours went to Wales.

I think it was the first holiday he'd ever had in Britain, and came directly after a trip to Dubai that had quite clearly been written up by a parent rather than a child.

We like to think he had more fun with us though.

To return the class bear with a note saying thanks, but no thanks
To return the class bear with a note saying thanks, but no thanks
To return the class bear with a note saying thanks, but no thanks
Didactylos · 08/02/2015 19:47

probably told this story on here before but class bear got assaulted by an overly intimate Jack Russell during the trip to the park
(that story never made it into the book)

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Wailywailywaily · 08/02/2015 19:47

Shockers ours is already in Wales!

Damson most parents do seem to manage printed photos Shock there are however many drawings too. At least DS did do some most of the work for our entry which is clearly not the case with many others Hmm

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MrsItsNoworNotatAll · 08/02/2015 19:52

I hate this sort of shit but the kids love i, its a big deal to bring home the bear.

Dd2 has yet to bring it home so far but it's only a matter of time.

LoisWilkersonsLastNerve · 08/02/2015 19:53

Yabu its bear neglect Sad

Nanny0gg · 08/02/2015 19:57

Our school lets you email pictures in for them to print.

RubyReins · 08/02/2015 20:05

We got given a great big cumbersome monkey to take on holiday. At least the nursery appreciated the photos of Mickey Monkey enjoying a large Martini complete with three jalapeño stuffed olives...

noddyholder · 08/02/2015 20:07

You will wonder why it bothered you when he is grown. I did all that crap with ds he is 20 now and at uni and he remembers it all fondly

edwinbear · 08/02/2015 20:13

Best one I ever saw was a mum at ds school who has 4 children, two of them twins in the same reception class. Oh how I chuckled with relief when I saw her ds's pic of the class glove puppet watching an ipad. Bless her for giving the rest of us permission to tone it all down a bit. I truly love that woman.

redexpat · 08/02/2015 21:31

we had the christmas pixie from nursery. Had to write about all the tricks it had played on us. My mind went blank, and there wasnt a book, just one blank sheet of paper so i ciuldnt even kook for inspiration. DS was the last one to get him, i think theyd been holding off because id had a baby at the start of december. Thankfully we had it for a weekend when ds' awesome godfather came to stay so he did it for us.

AuditAngel · 08/02/2015 21:54

I don't enjoy thism, but the kids do. We have plonked it in the high chair for breakfast, another time, a sneaky photo in the swimming pool changing room, another one was afternoon tea at the farm shop (visiting my aunt and uncle to plan my parent's 50th anniversary party). We don't do anything special with the bear, it does what we do.

molyholy · 08/02/2015 22:01

Yanbu. It is a pain in the arse. We had the bear one weekend. And kept forgetting to take it out with us. When dd was in bed we ended up faking a couple of pictures and got dd to do a short write up on monday morning. We had all grandparents round for sunday dinner and forgot to take pics so I wrote in we were so busy that we forgot to take any pictures. I hope our dd never has the responsibility again Grin

Rowgtfc72 · 08/02/2015 22:23

We took the class bear( chinese boy doll called lym) on the bus to dds dance lesson. He had chicken nuggets for tea and went to bed in dds upsa daisy PJs as we hadn't realised he came with his own.
We kept him well away from the jack Russell's.
Enjoyed having him as we had a weekend of entertainment reading all the entries with the parents trying to out do each other.

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DecaffCoffeeAndRollupsPlease · 09/02/2015 04:29

I hate it when teachers set homework that is more work for the parents than the child. Back in primary/middle school days I felt like- I've done my time, finished school, why do I have to do MORE school work?

Back in my day, none of my homework was work for my parents, I had to do mine by myself, but you can't really say "no" to things like class bear so, off to Boots you trundle to pay for and print out photos that you don't have the time or any enthusiasm for.

Maybe I'm just a miserable cah and when school days are a thing of the past I'll look back at such things as homework, fondly?

CuttedUpPear · 09/02/2015 06:40

When we got the class bear over a decade ago we took him on a march against the war in Iraq.
Took a photo of bear with the police in riot gear, they posed for us.

That put paid to the competitive science museum visits and boastful weekend mountain hikes.

Sceptimum · 09/02/2015 06:49

Give bear to local students with 20 bucks and ask for a photomontage of bear on a night out, ala the Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up video.

You will never have to deal with the bear again.

ISpidersmanYouMeanPirate · 09/02/2015 08:28

DS is 3 (not in the uK) so school doesnt expect him to write or draw...so its obviously the parents who have to do it. Having said that, DS was thrilled to have the bear - the teacher reads out the entries after each weekend so he was chuffed to be a part of it (too young to realise everyone would get a go).

Some parents go teally

ISpidersmanYouMeanPirate · 09/02/2015 08:31

Really OTT. Others just do one photo and a paragraph.

We did 3 photos - playing with DS, at the park and at the hairdressers with a line to explain each photo.

The most annoying bit was printing the photos. DH did it from the office on Sunday (shops are all shut here on sundays)

littlemonkeyface · 09/02/2015 09:00

YANBU, but tbh I would not dare to return the bear with just a note for fear of being judged by the school.

Thankfully we got ours (a rag doll called Anna) just before Xmas so we just took some photos with DC and doll in front of the tree.

thegreylady · 09/02/2015 09:04

Get ds to draw Bear to the best of his ability. Bear spent his weekend as an artist's model :)

PavlovtheCat · 09/02/2015 09:17

Oh there are some real miseries on here. I am so looking forward to ds getting their bear. He hasn't got it yet, is upset about that. Bear will come everywhere with us I am sure. we won't make special plans for him, but it doesn't take long to draw a picture and write some words about our weekend with bear. It's not that much of a deal ffs.

TheNewStatesman · 09/02/2015 09:37

Pavlov, it's not a question of being a misery. It's a question of, what is the point of all this and how is forcing parents to arse about printing photos actually educational for the kids?

Homework is supposed to be for children not parents.