to think this is ridiculous Christmas card etiquette ?

[rubymallorywhite]

I don't really do Christmas cards,
The odd one to far flung relatives & close family.

Picked my daughter up today from nursery & the nursery assistant is oh don't forget this...

To L,
Love H

My eyes nearly fell out my head.

She's 2.5!!!!

Nursery girl says well I can give you a list of them all, or the ones L plays with most (can't just single some out?)
Me: How many are there ?
Nursery girl: over 30
Me: is it not a ballache handing them out ?
Nursery girl: We'll just pop them in trays.

AIBU to think this is fucking insane writing out over 30 Christmas cards to TODDLERS?

Fair doos when they're in a class of school chums but TODDLERS.

I'll get her to make one for the whole class... One... To them all,
At a push.

Holy festive fuckballs.

I refuse to countenance doing cards for preschool, it is enough of a faff doing 3 primary school classes... My DC love giving and receiving them so I suck it up but the preschool can take a running jump!

DD gets cards just for her from family. She's excited just to get a couple she can actually touch. If they have a discount pack of cards, I'd just do.

You don't have to do any personalized messages. But the kids will have fun getting them.

We've just done over 40 cards for DS preschool and over 30 for DD's school. This is an improvement on figures to when they were both in nursery, plus DD writes her own cards now which helps.

They love receiving the cards so much though so I grump and do it with a bottle of wine

Now you know, the trick is to go to the sales and get a few boxes of 30 for 10p a go all ready for next year

I'm missing the parts where I was sneery or ragey.....*

I think the parts in your OP where you said "fucking insane" and "Holy festival fuckballs" probably count?

Nope not sneery or ragey sorry pal!!!

Try harder next time !

She is affa chuffed with her card

What does affa mean? I thought it was Attractive from far away?

YANBY, btw. I could not be arsed with that.

Meant to be a bit sarcastic & a little light hearted if you want to be really picky!
No sneering no raging. Trust me!

Ha

Affa: awfully / very / really

To give you a bit of a smile, ruby - whilst it does get a bit better when they can write the cards themselves, there is still the odd pitfall.

Ds3, then aged about 6, spent ages one evening writing cards for his whole class - all 30 of them. He was so pleased he'd got it all done, and brought me the whole stack of envelopes to admire. All properly stuck down - and not one with the recipient's name on it!

Did I have 30 envelopes the right size to spare? Of course not. . He had to do the whole lot again, poor lad!

I have a similar dilemma.. DC1 came out clutching his two cards today like he had a winning lottery ticket. However he only goes part time and only started last month so I don't actually know many of the kids names and don't know how to get all their names?

DP thinks we should send cards to everyone so I've told him to drop DC1 tomorrow and ask the busy staff for a list of all kids.

Plus my DC1 only has 2 cards, as he is new maybe no one else will give him one?

YANBU, I think it is a crazed festive stationary frenzy and an annual pain in my arse.

My daughter is 2.5 - so we have 30 cards to do for her. My older two are in Primary School - about 40 each including a few teachers and friends from other classes - Thet want to do them but I have to check no ones been unintentionally forgotten/ had a too truthful message inserted.

All my friends from children's school and pre-school also hand other parents cards - say another 20 or so. Plus all the friends and family on both sides who we don't actually see - another 40 at least.

That's 170 cards!!! Some people might get one from each older DC and then one from us as parents - where does the madness end!

I feel faint and reaching for a sherry just thinking about it.

I thought you sent Christmas cards to the people you wouldn't see over the holiday but wanted to wish a happy Christmas to?

But everyone around here is so friendly and nice I would feel like a mega churl to get given a card and not give one back but oh God I wish it would end.

Don't do it, no one cares.

Or write a few. Again, no one gives a monkeys.

Yanbu op

My 4yr old came home today with a card, the envelope was blank and so was the inside of the card, except for the other child's first name inside.

You can kind of tell the parent thought it was a chore, so I wouldnt have bothered.

I was extremely lazy and ordered personalised Santa stickers off Amazon, to put inside the school cards, but they did at least say Merry Christmas From...., and I did put each child's name on the envelope.

Just did 30 for DD2s preschool. Tbf, I wrote the children's names and she wrote (scrawled) her name on the bottom.

DD1 is in Y1 and will be writing all hers. I think it's a nice way to show empathy and think about other people from time to time.

'Holy festive fuckballs.'

Indeed.

I agree with unicorn we don't do it mainly for environmental reasons and the fact dts are of a different faith but the dts like to receive them. Kids also like to give them out. There is no real harm only to trees

I too thought this was mental last week when it started at my DSs preschool. But after seeing how excited my 3 year old is every day opening his cards, I caved and got a couple of packs from the pound shop. 35 cards written and he got to put them in the school post box too.

In fuckin sane

My DS is 2.5 and he got a card from nursery. He was so chuffed and i thought it was sweet but not sweet enough to do the same. When he is old enough to write his own cards then that's fine by me.

I never bothered with this nonsense

When they were old enough to write, and wanted to do some for their friends, I provided them with cards and pens.

Arrrrrgh. This takes me back to when my preschooler twins wanted to send a card, individually, to every child. That was 60 cards I had to write that night. Need just thinking about it!

actually, I am lying. When youngest DS was 5 he was desperate to do cards but could not write more than 1, I ended up doing loads where I fucking faked his handwriting

forgot that!

But that was once, and never again

Felt like a lunatic

Parenting often makes me feel like a loon

Affa means awfully. #linguist

Fill the cards with glitter then it might put them off doing it again