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DS got the fucking class teddy bear this weekend.

109 replies

MargotFenring · 25/11/2016 22:34

So, AIBU to ask for your inspiration, as to what to do with the fucking thing. It comes with a requirement to write two bloody pages about out exciting adventures and photos!

It has luggage! With spare clothes pyjamas! AND a bastard toothbrush! Gah!

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TheMortificadosDragon · 25/11/2016 22:46

Honestly, don't turn your weekend upside down for it. This is not an activity which will figure in your DCs personal statement. Picture of teddy in bed, having brekkie, playing with ...forgotten what 4 yos play with....

DipsyLaLa22 · 25/11/2016 22:47

We had the joy last weekend. I forgot all about it and it languished on my daughters bedroom floor all weekend. I took and printed some hastily taken photos with it & her in her PJ's, and wrote a few sentences.

Whatever. Preschool were hardly going to expel her for poor effort Wink

Topseyt · 25/11/2016 22:49

I admit that I hated the class teddy bear when mine were in the infants.

The story we were given was that the teddy had flown in from Peru to learn about how children in this country live.

We just wrote any old bollocks down about it, even if it had sat ignored in a corner all weekend. Like going to the shops, the park, playing in the garden, and banal crap like that.

Not very imaginative, all in all. Sorry.

Give it a colourful nickname, like some of the ones we see in here.Grin

Scrumptiousbears · 25/11/2016 22:50

Is there a Christmas light switch on nearby? Sorry if it's been suggested before I haven't read the whole thread

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MargotFenring · 25/11/2016 22:50

Grin Thanks for the suggestions. I have really laughed.

Looking at his previous adventures, I feel a bit pressured to keep up.

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minisoksmakehardwork · 25/11/2016 22:52

Let ds fill the book in, even if it's only his own pictures and squiggles of what bear has done. If you're feeling particularly creative you could let ds have stickers/glitter to go all out.

Ours very often has child's own interpretation of the events, sometimes there's photos but not always.

Which reminds me, haven't seen the class cats yet this year. I wonder if the new teacher is going to be sending them home prays not as twins will argue

LittleWingSoul · 25/11/2016 22:52

Ahh I loved it when we had the teddy home - DD was so proud! We had friends over for a roast on the Sunday who arrived on their Harley... Teddy enjoyed life on the wild side that weekend! With photo proof!

But yeah as pp have said just do what you'd otherwise do on a weekend... You'll probably do more than you think!

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MargotFenring · 25/11/2016 22:56

Last weekend we went to a wedding, the seaside and to a birthday party, next week end it is a steam engine Santa trip, the following weekend DS is going to a lantern show and the following weekend it is Christmas....

But the weekend that I planned to keep quiet, stay indoors, eat rubbish and give in to the requests for the TV/tablet and general slobbery is the week end he arrives. Typical.

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Wookiecookies · 25/11/2016 22:56

"Teddy had a well deserved weekend off. The end."

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chickenowner · 25/11/2016 22:56

But it doesn't have to be you that does it all. Your DC can draw pictures of the teddy, it doesn't have to be photos. You are taking this far too seriously.

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MargotFenring · 25/11/2016 22:58

Everyone else has done great photos. Would we look pants doing drawings?

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ElizaSchuyler · 25/11/2016 22:58

Dd bought the class teddy home when she was in nursery.

The previous week the poor thing appeared to have spent the entire weekend in the crèche whilst X's mummy went to the gym.

Lovemyfurfurbabs · 25/11/2016 22:58

Fuck me, is this the kind of thing I'll be expected to participate in when my DS starts school? Confused

lazarusb · 25/11/2016 22:59

My nephew offered to take the class stick insect for the Easter holidays. Think yourself lucky Grin

Weedsnseeds1 · 25/11/2016 22:59

Do you know anyone with a bulldog? Teddy could go bear baiting?

Mistoffelees · 25/11/2016 23:00

I'm a reception teacher and am happy enough with a drawing and some writing or mark making done by the child. If we get photos they're a bonus and nicest ones are of the children reading teddy a story. We've had a lot of teddy visiting parents workplaces this year, including one memorable one which just featured photos of teddy with promotional posters at the dads business, was a bit Hmm as we don't send home a book, just a piece of paper which we add to a folder in school, so he's not getting the free advertising he was perhaps hoping for!

Topseyt · 25/11/2016 23:00

You could just write that teddy was so exhausted after his adventures up until now that he fancied a boring sod weekend, being very antisocial, slobbing about and sleeping in a corner.

TheMortificadosDragon · 25/11/2016 23:03

Looking at his previous adventures, I feel a bit pressured to keep up.

Give ted a quiet weekend. The parents who follow you will be so glad you recalibrated expectations!Grin

theconstantinoplegardener · 25/11/2016 23:03

I second watching the Peppa Pig episode, "Teddy Playgroup", for inspiration. Hilarious!

But seriously, you can do as much or as little as you want with the class teddy and his diary. He will experience a broad range of activities (or not) with the various children. A weekend of chilling in his PJs and watching movies or playing with the iPad will be absolutely fine.

ValaMalDoran · 25/11/2016 23:03

Ours went to Tesco, watched a film and went to church. Teddy may have been moved around the media desk to try and distract the worship band...

ladygrinningsoul · 25/11/2016 23:04

Teddy found a bottle of squeezable honey, binge drank and had to spend the rest of the weekend sleeping it off.

Oblomov16 · 25/11/2016 23:05

Oh I hate it. Why do they do this to us?

Sara107 · 25/11/2016 23:08

We had it last Christmas. dD was the last in the class to get it, and her weekend fell on the start of the holidays so she was allowed to have it for the whole Christmas break. She was so excited, talked of nothing else for weeks. Was bored within 10 mins of bringing it home. We dragged it round for two weeks, endless stress for me keeping track as it was dropped and forgotten everywhere we went. One of the few photos we took was my dad sitting with the toy reading the diary that went with it. We didn't know it would be his last Christmas.

BocaDeTrucha · 25/11/2016 23:08

CherrySkull, talk about miserable. The other day we had one little girl who kept it for 2 weeks and brought it back with nothing in the book at all. You should have seen the look of disappointment on her face when she didn't get the opportunity to stand up and let the class see her photos with the bear. It's your child who pays the price of your cynicism, and who doesn't get chance to take part.

OpalTree · 25/11/2016 23:09

Ours did stuff in our (tiny) garden. Trampoline, playhouse, swing. Others did stuff in the kid's bedroom. Teddy bear picnic, doll house, sleepover etc. Another time we went to the local park and it climbed a tree, went on slide etc.