Father's day card for single parent

[TheEagerWasp]

Little boy got sent home with a fathers day card. I said to the staff "oh he doesn't have a father" and she replied well it can be a card for you.

I'm reflection I think maybe the staff thought I was being rude. I didn't mean the nursery shouldn't have made one, i was just taken aback.

I thought I told them no father's day staff, but maybe that just means stay and play invitations? They are having one on Friday.

I don't know how to navigate a absent father, and his family.

That's crap. My DC don't have a father,they'd make a card for grandad, a friend's DC would make one for uncle. One year DS went off piste and made one for his pet fish! School should know which DC don't have a father/mother or have 2 fathers or 2 mothers,and arrange these activities more sensitively. I'd raise it with school and ask they make these activities inclusive for all the DC there with different family set ups.

MyDC school went so far in the opposite direction of not making it clear that I was actually sitting eating my 'special person' breakfast in the hall before I looked round and realised it was for father's day!

this is always tricky.

If you don’t acknowledge Father’s Day, some parents are upset. Especially if Mother’s Day was marked.

If you do make a card, you can’t tell a child that they can’t make one.

If you make a card and tell the children that they can give it to someone important in their lives or similar, you end up with dc giving their card to a friend or their teacher or their mum when they have got a dad and that causes problems too.