Ds brings home school toy...wth?

[witchkat72]

Ok new to this so forgive me if on wrong board. My ds who is 4 brings home the nursery toy. The idea is for him to take said toy/puppet out with us until Monday, where I am to take pictures and write a lengthy diary entry of what ds and puppet have done. Problem is so far ds has shown no interest in even going near it/him and has categorically said it /he is not ds' friend what on earth do I do now? Take pictures of said puppet ostracized to corner of sofa? Write that its had a fab time being carted around by me in a duffle bag all weekend and ds has ignored it? Wwyd?

watch old episodes of Sooty on youtube and plagiarise it.

those puppets spent most of the time indoors and got up to lots.

One year our class bear was very naughty and did a couple of naughty things which I took a photo of - think he dug up some veg in the garden and swung on the rotary drier. He ended up sitting on the naughty step....

Another year we took him to scout day - sat him next to the bonfire and he went back to school stinking of smoke .

Our cat died on class bear weekend. Bear dug a grave and attended a make shift funeral.

Like others, the first and most exciting thing any of our class stuffed animals did was have an amazing time going round and round in the washing machine. I agree that whatever you do, it should enable your DS to be OK when he has an abrupt change of heart and decides too late that he loves the toy after all. So just lie in a way that he can go along with later.

dh wrote an alternate weekend and Bear was very very bad

Did your dh write class bear porn??

Excuse my ignorance as I only have a baby so no experience but why on earth are you, the parent, being set homework to do? Surely they'd be better asking 4 yo to draw a picture of bear doing something.

Some fab ideas! I definitely can't hand toy back with nothing written as the idea is the children sit and listen to what child and toy have been up to during it's stay at home. It wouldn't be fair on ds to sit in circle and have nothing to say and share with friends . Steff13 ds has not given a reason just doesn't like it, if it were a fluffy bear itd be fine but it's a boy puppet, he's just not keen on it as of yet.
He may decide he does like it and I will end up carting it around and try to write something amusing

Bear came to stay with DS. Ds went swimming and played with trains (pics of DS posed at pool and with trains). DS loved jumping into the pool and his trains are his favourite toys. DS had chips for tea. The end.

Parents will love you for keeping it short.

I hated having to have the smelly class bear home. Reading through the book and rolling my eyes at some of the stuff the parents had written about.

We had it all of bloody Easter! We can't be trusted!

I definitely can't hand toy back with nothing written as the idea is the children sit and listen to what child and toy have been up to during it's stay at home.

Yes, yes you can! Stop the insanity. Call time on this nonsense. Tell the nursery teacher you haven't done it and then she won't do it.

Anyone else hoping PPs will dig out the actual photos they took of the bear up to all sorts and post them?

We just took it to the regular weekend supermarket trip and took the photo on the belt thingy at the till. Or took it to the library and took the photo at the reading corner. Or took photo at the local playground on the slide,etc.

Kaytee it's vastly easier to take a photo of a 4 year old and write a couple of sentences about it than to persuade my particular 4 year olds to draw pictures of anything. Child drawing the activity is very much acceptable (particularly older kids - drawing a recognisable bear doing a recognisable activity would be way beyond mine at 4. Or indeed 7, for one of them).

It is sold as good for the child to share some details of their life and to hear how other families do things. It's just supporting them to tell it. I don't mind it as a one off but once or twice a year for 5 years got tedious!

Teachers at our school have had the genius idea of having a separate (mini) diary for each child, so no competition. On the minus side, there are 3 separate class bears going the rounds - we've had it twice already, most people more. Luckily DD likes this sort of thing.

It's all so pointless!

I miss the MN bear. He got lost IIRC, someone was sent him and neither bear nor poster was ever seen or heard from again.

Thread is in classics IIRC.

Just be thankful it's only a smelly puppet OP. When my DS was that age in the 80s his nursery's 'toy' was a giant live rabbit. We had it a few times; clearly we were seen as an easy target.

As rabbits go it was a beautiful animal - much bigger than the average cat - it was smelly, came with a large indoor hutch and somehow had been trained to find a convenient place to poo in any new environment - it didn't poo in its hutch - in our case that was in the kitchen by the back door.

Only saving grace, I suppose, was that we weren't required to write about the 'exciting' time the rabbit spent at our house.

Try this:

Shame some of it's gone, but here you go. (This was a long time ago )

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1311788-Anyone-else-think-Mumsnet-should-have-its-own-class-bear-to-send-round

I always washed the manky bear, and wrote out the amazing bath bear had.

My DD loved the bloody thing and as it wasn't given out fairly it caused a good deal of trauma.

I wish I had made our entires more amusing to parents. I love the naughty bear ends up on the naughty step idea.

Oh yeah, pigs, that's true. We had the school hamster, we spent ages taming it, it was really unfriendly before it came to us, but people could hold it afterwards. I was so desperate to be picked I was screwing up my face wishing when the teacher was picking names out of a hat I wonder in hindsight if I was the most enthusiastic and she picked me on purpose! We had a cat though and had to keep them apart because she'd just sit and glare at the cage.

It's probably a good thing they don't have class pets any more, it's not very fair on the animals.

Titchy 😂

Would go with the autumn pictures..playing in the leaves looking out the window at the rain or under an umbrella. Frosty morning. It's better to stay real local and just regular stuff. Do it. Don't send it back empty as bit of an insult to poor teacher.

OP, it's had such a busy time the last few weekends, it's desperately in need of some quiet time.