Christmas cards for 2 year olds

[oodles50]

So a bit of a light hearted one really, I'm interested as to whether people have the time and/or inclination to actually do this?

My DD(2) goes to nursery two days a week. Yesterday I got sent a notification through the parent nursery app basically saying, here's the Christmas card list for her room, and a list of about 20 names.

It had not occurred to me that I would be expected to write Christmas cards for a load of 2 yeah olds. Let's face it, it's not like my DD is going to involved - I attempted making some Christmas tree potato stamp cards with her at the weekend to give to grandparents, and she was quickly more interested in shaking the entire contents of a pot of glitter onto a piece of paper (I'll be finding that particular Christmas cheer around the house for weeks 😅)

Tbf it's not like I write loads Christmas cards myself, with the exception of a handful of family members, so I don't really feel the need to write out some for toddlers who I don't even know if my child plays with (or even attends on the same days as DD).

I think I am just going to ignore it, but I wonder if any of the other parents will think I'm a Scrooge ha!

My DD started pre-school this September just gone and the same thing happened to me the other day - on pick up one of the teachers asked me if I wanted the "names list"? I asked her to repeat herself and she said "the names list - for all the children so you can write cards"?

I really hope I didn't come across as rude, but I declined the list, said I had far too many cards to write for myself!

Can't believe it really - it seems a nonsense for children that young to basically take a bunch of cards that their parents have written, into a pre-school/nursery setting for the teachers to have to hand them all out to the relevant children as obviously at that age they can't read themselves so no idea who to give them too!

Glad it's not just me! Bit different when they are at school and can start writing some of their own cards to friends...this just seems like a waste of time and energy to me!

I do feel a little bad though as DD has already received a couple of cards, so I hope that the other children don't notice that she didn't give cards out.

But some of the cards aren't even addressed to her - just have "love XXX" after the printed card message - so clearly the parent has just written a mass batch.

I think it's a really pointless exercise - adding more stress and pressure to parents and pore-school carers, waste of money & paper etc.

I will be more than happy to help DD write cards to friends she wants to next year / the year after once she is learning to write herself.

But for this year it was a firm no for me!

Sorry cross post above re: writing them themselves

Madness. I would definitely ignore. I have a two year old and can't imagine writing out cards for her.

DD made cards at that age for her friends, they had hours of fun playing with a pretend post box at nursery.

I didn’t write for the whole class, just her friends. But hang on to that list for parties!

As a nursery teacher this will have probably come about as a parent will have asked for a list! We have started putting a list on our app to parents rather than have lists flying around but there is no expectation.

DS is 3 and we got a similar email from Preschool - I sent him in yesterday with a stack of cards for every child there! He came home with a few yesterday and was so so excited to open them! 🎅

Surprised you're allowed one. At our nursery they do not disclose names even when incidents have occurred for GDPR reasons so unless your child knows the names for things like birthday invites, you have to trust the workers to hand out nameless invites to the people most played with

Remain politely silent.

Christmas cards for a bunch of 2 year olds is pointless.

Oh yes we've had cards home from nursery this week written by a few different children themselves (3/4 yr olds). I was really surprised and wasn't planning on doing this but now I've reciprocated as I didn't like to think of their little friends giving out cards and not getting any back!

Gawd no!

What a relief when schools HT bopped Christmas cards on the head based on environmental grounds. School of 500 kids each sending 30 cards is 15,000 Christmas cards all going for recycling ♻️ after Christmas!!!