to spend 10 minutes scribbling with my left hand in imitation of my 2-year-old, rather than get her to do the colouring in herself?

[BroccoliSpears]

New low: I started doing thank you letters by printing out appropriate pictures and getting dd to colour them in. Oh but she makes such a mess, and she's not really in the mood and she insists on doing everything in burgandy. Have just spent a quick 10 minutes scribbling in a two-year-old fashion, job done. Relatives will be thrilled. Not sure I'll ever look myself in the eye again.

what are you going to do when she is five? hire an oil painter?

Get used to this.

Also, thanks to having to pretend to be various children when signing cards using my left hand, I am now damn near ambidextrous.

What's wrong with burgundy? If that the couleur du jour, and it's her artwork...

I do this all the time

YABtotallyU

Fancy doing such a thing!

a friend did this for a competition and won cinema tickets to see Ratatouille

I made DH's birthday card this year. DD just wasn't trying to put the glitter when it should go!

DH loved it

Oh no F&Z - the guilt!

Well, in a country where half the parents are doing their children's GCSE coursework, you may as well start early...

Only other parents of 2 year olds will know how crap they are at colouring in. I think you'll probably get away with it. Until judgement day that is....

HA broccoli have just done the same thing with my sister's birthday card.

just scribbled a bit. As you say - job done.

DH was a bit sceptical, but hey.

Broccoli she was cock a hoop
no morals my friends

LOL! I always colour with my left hand when ds wants to colour so I don't damage his self-esteem (PFB).

LOL

Wait till your dd starts bringing homework back