to be a bit bemused by the teacher this morning?

[TeainaChinaCup]

DD started school this morning. The teacher issued all of the parents with a copy of a wanky poem about realising these are our babies but now they are hers too (no they aren't), plus a tea bag and a biscuit.

Is this normal?! It was a bit schmaltzy twee for me.

[zeeboo]

So it doesn't actually say that they her children now at all? YABU on making that up. It's twee and a little pukey but you got a free kit Kat and a school that wants to reassure parents. I think you'll learn to cope in time.

[whineanddine]

I wish I'd got a KitKat when my oldest DD first went to school. I cried (not because of not getting a chocolate), but I cry at any event my kids are involved in, including but not limited to: Christmas pageants, "Junior Apprentice", Brownies' end-of-year parties, ALL first day of school days in Primary school, first periods, clique problems, school plays, erm, I think I might cry at quite a lot! So, yes OP, I think YABU, but I do agree the poem is pretty bad.

[ThatMummy]

Who are these "Huns" everyone keeps talking about?
Parents who actually give a shit about leaving their children on their first day of school?

[Cassns1]

It was a nice gesture on teacher part. She may not be a poet laureate anytime soon but I guess she was just trying to reassure all the sobbing parents (which I'll probably be one - but I've 2 years to toughen up) that their babies will be looked after. Not to everyone's taste....what about the coffee drinkers 😊

[BananaThePoet]

That is a nice friendly poem. Not even a hint of saying they are her babies now. Just saying they are now part of the school (which they are) blimey if your hackles are raised by something like that you are in for a bumpy ride.

[KingLooieCatz]

Well this kind of stuff leaves me cold but perhaps for others it is lovely. There was a HT who I think forgot that DS is our child not hers (she had none of her own, stated reason being it is not possible to have a career and a child, so I was not a proper mother in here eyes). Her opening gambit was that she was so pleased our children were coming to her school. She hadn't met them at that point. I can't imagine if there had been a different set of parents at the meeting she'd have said "I'm gutted, there were these other children I really wanted". So utterly meaningless. But maybe it works for other parents. I guess it is trying to be nice.