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To hate take home Ted

59 replies

MadamMMA · 10/06/2019 16:20

Arggh I DONT want him Angry none of our printers work and apparently a hand drawn picture of DS and THT just won’t cut it

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Dorsetdays · 10/06/2019 16:25

Madam. I feel your pain.

Our nemesis was Travelling Ted and even c15 years later I still remember the sympathetic (gloating?) looks the other parents would give when your DC came out proudly wearing the TT rucksack containing the offending article. 😖

Babyduck2 · 10/06/2019 16:32

I feel your pain. It's one massive ball ache. We had a book that went around with it, with all the wonderful things the teddy did, really extravagant trips out, and our week it would just say 'watched cbeebies in our PJ's and ate pizza' Blush Such a shit mum Grin Grin

FurCoatNoSnickers · 10/06/2019 16:36

We had him
The weekend I was away with work

Dh panicked and thought it would be hilarious to take a photo of Travelling Teddy passed out on the sofa with only a tie round his nethers with a spilled Indian take away and empty cans of Stella and my bra draped on the sofa in the background.

The teachers found it hilarious and ripped it from the book never to be seen again. I found out on the Tuesday.

TixieLix · 10/06/2019 16:39

Oh God, I used to hate the class teddy. When we got him I used to cringe at the bear and all the outfits in the rucksack because they were always minging so the first thing we did when it was our turn was to chuck it all in the washing machine. There was a diary that came with Ted, and a lot of oneupmanship. Mind you, one of our 'turns' coincided nicely with a trip with our dog to the vet. I cringe when I remember that I asked the vet to pose as though examining Ted with the stethoscope. Looking back I can't believe I did that LOL!

Twotinydictators · 10/06/2019 16:41

Oooh I loved it with PFB, I didn't work then either (yes - I was that irritating parent Blush). Wouldn't be so keen now - sorry DC2 Grin

MadamMMA · 10/06/2019 16:45

This is Dc 3 so I’m totally done with this Ted and his stupid bloody diary

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WhiteRedRose · 10/06/2019 16:46

"No thanks, Ted can have a holiday on DC's desk this week"

MauisHouseOnMaui · 10/06/2019 16:49

DS nursery tried to send the ted home with him one weekend. I say "ted" but it was actually a three feet long fucking cartoon-style snake. I told them I was very sorry but we were headed to a dentist appointment on the bus and no way was I carrying it there and back. What a pity, snakey had to go home with the next person on the list Grin

Icedlatte · 10/06/2019 16:51

Haha we have him this week. I can hear him spinning round the washing machine as I type this!!

Our ted has been to Boots, been to Tesco and gone to bed. THE END.

IHopeYouUnderstandWeArePuppets · 10/06/2019 16:55

DS’s nursery thought it would be good to give us The Bear the weekend we brought DD home from hospital. Hmm Grin Not only do we have to take photos and write a description, it has to be colour coded to link to the well-being indicators. It is a lovely nursery though.

Notverygrownup · 10/06/2019 16:56

We need a MN bank of diary entries which are accessible to stressed, tired, overwraught parents stuck with teddy. I could never think of what to do with the wretched creature when my kids were small. Now I'm safe it seems much less stressful.

MrFurCoat Grin

Tixie I think that the vet idea is fine. The main idea is to give the teacher class a more interesting version of show and tell. Some kids wont have been to a vets. Your entry showed them what goes on.

Alternatively couldn't an entry say something like:

I have been feeling so tired after so many exciting weekends recently that I enjoyed having some down time. I went for a long muddy walk, jumped in puddles and found a great stick/baked a cake and enjoyed eating it in front of my favourite film/had a big cuddle with X and then made a Fathers day card. It was nice being at home and chilling out with X.

Or This weekend we were spring cleaning. Y and I tidied her bedroom and found a missing ballet shoe. Hurrah! We then worked out how the washing machine worked and washed all of my clothes. We pegged them on the washing line, but I didn't like it when I got muddled up with the clothes and pegged out by my ears - though there was a great view from up there!! I could almost see school.

This morning we did the ironing and I burned my paw and put a bandage on. Irons are hot! Then we cooked Sunday lunch and had to do a lot of washing up. I shall be glad to get back to school for a rest.

Marv1nGay3 · 10/06/2019 16:58

We left take home Ted on a bus by mistake. He went on a marvellous adventure to visit faraway cousins by himself........we did replace him with another toy. I feel your pain.

Notverygrownup · 10/06/2019 16:58

it has to be colour coded to link to the well-being indicators OK at that point I lose any will to look after a stuffed bear. I hope that you dd is getting on OK IHope

StCharlotte · 10/06/2019 17:00

From the sound of it, "Ted's" clothes actually get washed more often than mine!

Deafdonkey · 10/06/2019 17:02

I just want to apologies now for being a PFB SAHM arse hole who had take home Ted first week of the year. I don't know what came over me but looking back they must have thought that deaf donkeys child had a smug cunt for a mum.

ModreB · 10/06/2019 17:04

We had Ted for a 3 week trip to Singapore and Australia. He had pictures on the top of the Marina Bay Sands, with a plastic bag of frogs in a Singapore market, with Kangaroos and a live Koala. Also my SIL horses, pool and the beach.

When we got back, they decided to stop the Ted trips lol. Apparently, Scarborough didn't cut it any more.

Hotterthanahotthing · 10/06/2019 17:08

I sent ours back in a plastic bag.We did nothing with him.I sent a note saying If seen a flea.Dd thinks she did too(oh!the power of suggestion).We never saw ted again.

KOKOagainandagain · 10/06/2019 17:08

10 years later still bear the resentment (see what I did there Smile).

C of E school in posh area - he spent a lot of time in church with the vicar betwixt weekends skiing in Lausanne according to his diary.

Vicarious competitive parenting through the medium of stuffed toys.

Betsy86 · 10/06/2019 17:11

furcoat Grin

Our class ted is so filthy i wanted to wash it SO badly but i was worried the ratty thing would fall apart.

Im glad our turn is over for a while lol 😂

Yabbers · 10/06/2019 17:17

'watched cbeebies in our PJ's and ate pizza' blush Such a shit mum grin grin

Most of our class teddy said the same thing when we got it. Seems the parents were in some sort of race to the bottom to see who could come across as the slummiest. The odd trip to somewhere exotic looked really out of place.😄

FrownPrincess · 10/06/2019 17:34

I think there should be a special corner of hell for whoever first came up with the idea of Take Home Ted Angry

My DGS is only three, and was given THT during a weekend when I was visiting, except that it wasn’t a teddy but a fully dressed wolf, which just added to the stress as he would be practically impossible to replace if lost. We took him to the park on the bus.

Reading through the diary that accompanied the flipping animal, I was amused by the number of entries with masses of photos proclaiming things like “Wolfie loved his weekend in Tel Aviv” (yes, really) and “Wolfie had lots of adventures in Paris/Center Parcs/ sailing on our boat” etc. that ran to several pages. It appeared to be a form of one-upmanship.

Poor Wolfie was definitely slumming it a bit with us Grin

Neptunesgiraffe · 10/06/2019 17:35

I'm glad I dont have to do this any more. Every time, I would end up at the 24hour Tesco two towns away printing out sodding photos at 11pm.

BethanyGilbert · 10/06/2019 17:40

Surely if children aren’t going on holiday during term time then ted should only be going anywhere exotic a handful of times a year?

user1474894224 · 10/06/2019 17:45

Any parent that looks in the book and sees a hand drawn picture of THT watching TV on the previous week breathes a sigh of relief. So hold your head high. Get the colouring pencils out and let Ted watch BGT or Ninja Warrior or Night Garden then tuck up in bed (or on the floor for germ phobes) to have a sleep over.

Londonmummy66 · 10/06/2019 17:51

When we had a take home garden gnome, he wrote a letter to the Head asking for an early rescue on the grounds that he was being made to do too much music practice. (Dd2 never did like doing it). He already had a keyboard (acquired accessories rather than clothes) so we made him a cardboard cello.