to be spending the evening forging my 5 year old ds's name on his christmas cards?

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My dh thinks I have lost the plot, but my the last my 5 year old ds wants to do is write his name out 29 times, especially as it takes him a real effort to just write it once.
I don't want the other parents to think he can't even write his own name so.....

AIBU?

(In my defence so far all the cards he has received have been written by the child sending them.
It seems mad sending christmas cards at this age anyway.)

Sorry, but the last thing. Don't know what happened there!

Well, as you say, Christmas cards at that age seems ridiculous.

You're being ridiculous! Who cares what other parents think?! I wrote all my Reception age DS's for him, he can barely write his name once, let alone 29 times!

good on you, we all do it (I've been known to do baby writing, eg. a 42 yr old doing age 6 writing, load of shite all these Xmas cards isn't it?

dd1 is 4.3 she wrote her name in 4 cards and I did the other 35 in my writing!

How do you know the received cards weren't also forged?

Just do it in your own writing till he's old enough.

That makes me feel better MamaG and ssd.
I have been caught up in the craziness.

I would write them, but I wouldn't forge them. The other parents will probably be relieved that another child doesn't want to or can'
t write yet.

I get my 8yo to write my 4yo's cards. I'm assuming the parents will realise it's her sister writing it, not assume that dd3 is particularly literate with neat handwriting. Perhaps I should add a note.

I just assumed that some children really love sending christmas cards?

GrimmaTheNome -that is a good point. It must be boring work for a 5 yr old to have to write Christmas cards.
Although having said that I can see my 3 yr old dd loving it when she is older.

Hmm, I am evil and make my kids do them (youngest 4). If they can only do 3 then 3 is all they send! Certainly not writing 29 of the damn things, I've only just finished my own!

YABU. It is ridiculous to send cards at that age....especially if he can't write them (his name) himself.

However, my DS wanted to write Christmas cards to his classmates, the day after his school broke up! Didn't see the point in telling him no....

Could be worse. My nephew, (4) can only make marks with a pen but for the last two years my sister has insisted he holds it while she moves it around doing the writing. Not just his name, either. It must be sooooo tedious for him. He has to "do" all the family and one for every child in his class. Way to encourage a positive attitude to writing

Fennel! You should write a note. It would alarm me. I would definately assume it was the child sending the card.

No way that I would bother to do that, if dc don't want to write their names on the cards they don't get sent/given. Silly thing anyway. Having said that dc2 loves writing and has made little pictures on cards and envelopes...

dd has been doing hers in shifts over the last few days... it is taking bloody ages!

not helped by the fact that she seems to want to use each card as an opportunity to try out weird new ways of writing each letter...

In fact I got dc to write some cards to MY friends and got them to write all our names on it, pretending it was from all of us. Ha-ha

I have done it.
My ds is dyslexic and struggled with his name so I wanted it to look like he could, more for the other kids really.

it's obvious to me it's 8yo writing but maybe it will freak the parents out.

Thinking back I never wrote them for my other dds, they had to do it themselves or not send them. And it did take days sometimes. But we're all soft on dd3.

Fennel, dd actually forged her brother's name (he is 2 yrs older) on the card destined to YOU . He claimed that he was too busy to write

I will look forward to it.

Well after all these revelations I feel alot less paranoid about ds's lack of interest in handwriting. Thank you

Ahh I think it's a lovely thing to do and exactly the sort of thing I do!!

You're a good mum

Just do it in your own writing. Most five year olds don't write thier own cards.

I think that proves my point from another thread-why bother?!
Let him choose a few real friends and leave it at that.
You are writing them for him and most probably the mother of the recipient is reading it for her DC. Mad!!