CHRISTMAS CARDS!

[DanJARMouse]

3yr old DD1 has been coming home from nursery with christmas cards... ffs she is 3! she cant read or write so why bother? These parents obviously have far too much time on their hands!

Should I really have to go and buy more christmas cards just for her to give out at nursery???

hey, chill.Just because other do this doesn't mean you have to. I didn't bother until DS asked to, . If you don't want to, then don't.

I too think it's pretty pointless at this age, but maybe some of the kids at the nursery have older siblings and insisted on copying them and doing cards?

I think it's mad and didn't do it for mine at that age. if mine want to write them themselves they can, otherwise i'm not doing it....

Just don't worry about it. My DS is at nursery and has written some because he has seen his sister doing them and having just recently conquered writing his name he really wanted to. But he really won't care if he only gets one or two in return. DD didn't do it at this age. You really don't need to do it.

Didn't too it for my older two at that age (afaicr) but ds2 wanted to send some to his friends after seeing his older siblings writing some - plus his nursery has made a postbox for the children to post them in.

I just cant see the point!!

DH is more concerned at the fact out of the 6 she has recieved, 5 of them are from boys!

I agree SatsumaMoon. Didn't do the Xmas card thing with DS, but DD sees him writing Xmas cards for friends at school and wants to 'write' her own ones (she is nearly 3)
She scribbles in them and when I then try and write something legible she gets really cross and shouts 'I've already done that!'
Not bothered if she gets cards back from pre-school friends though. i don't keep a tally!

Well if she isn't interested in doing them and can't write then there isn't any point for her and you can forget about it and worry about the other 2 million things that there seems to be to do at Christmas !

I haven't - DD asked to this year, so she made and wrote the two that she wanted to do. My only help that I agreed to was writing their names on the megasketcher to copy

Ds (4) has asked to do some for pre-school so I've let him. It seemed mean not to, and he's just learnt to write his name and is really keen to write whenever he can, so I want to encourage that.

I also think its a nice thing to do. They may not be able to read and write, but they understand that they're giving cards to each other and that its a form of celebration, so I can't see anything wrong with it.

My DD has done some this year, as well as last year (she is 5 and in Year 1). I saw it as good writing practice and she decided who she was sending them to.

I wouldnt encourage them to do them, especially so young, there is plenty of time to get into the school gate politics - you get some lovely cards from M&S and Next, etc that must have cost a fortune, and some bargain ones - and you can guess which childs parents are the 'image concious' ones (usually well dressed, full make-up!!!).

DD loved getting them in return, but never bothered why some people didnt send them back - didnt even give it a thought. I felt that she had to send one to all the kids in her class to be fair, as it must be terribly sad for the quiet / odd child in the class who hardly gets any - which she thought was a nice thing to do.

Both last year and this year, ds (now 4.5) has loved taking cards home from nursery and is looking forward to taking his in when he finally finishes writing them and sticking stickers on the envelopes. It's made him practise writing his name 28 times and I'm amazed at how lovely and neatly he can write.

My son is 3 and has received some xmas cards. I read the names of who they were from and i asked him if he wanted to write some back. I honestly dont see the big deal.I bought some cheap charity cards and i wrote them and he did a scribble on them and gave them out. He really enjoyed it and i think it gave him some responsibility and is helping him learn what xmas is about.He keeps looking at the card that his favourite friend got him too and thats nice. But if he didnt want to i wouldnt ever make him, that would be ridiculous.

we had a nice suggestion in our preschool newsletter, not banning xmas cards but suggesting that the children could all sign a huge card to each other instead...it has my vote

thats a good idea and it would of saved my severe hand ache! but my son enjoyed the fact that it was from him and it was special to him.

my ds is 3 and has received some from pre school - they were written by parents though so I cant really see the point and my 3 year old doesnt even hold a pen properly so certainly cant write his own cards which means that he doesnt send any to go slightly off tangent is it really necessary to send cards ? I just cannot be bothered this year and I know most of the people I know just think cards are clutter but I dont want to appear bah humbug and not send any but would anyone notice really

What DD1's nursery has done is tell everyone only to write one Christmas card to the whole room and then the money you would have spent on cards is donated to Oxfam and the children are to pick something from the catalogue (like some tools etc)

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I've just managed to write the 6-8 cards that I'm going to send (to friends I rarely see since I don't see the point of sending them to people I see everyday) but my dd churns out about 35 a year to her school mates . Luckily she can write most of them herself now. I'm not a fan of Christmas cards myself but all the kids in her class do them..... so the vicious circle goes on.