to find this thank you card utterly ridiculous

[emkana]

...it goes like this:

"thank you for my lovely present, I started using it straight away. Mummy and Daddy enjoyed the wine you gave them. I had a lovely time at Christmas. Mummy has luckily recovered from her flu. Maybe we could come round for a play some time?

Love from x"

All this written in the child's mother's handwriting. Now guess how old the child is?

16

6 months

25?

About 2 weeks old. First baby, parents going over the top with everything and also in the middle of sleep deprivation-induced slightly hysterical and mad behaviour?

52 and a high court judge?

How many guesses do we have to make before you tell us?

Er, I will guess at 26yrs

She's nine and really quite clever...

i get crap like this.Bloody ridiculous.

Duh, older than 2 weeks if "had a lovely time at Christmas". But around a few months.

If she is 9 and clever she should be writing her own cards, imo.

I hate having to "channel" my pre-literate children for thank you notes!

I feel so daft.

(Not my note btw)

1. i is the kind of thing I would write. So yes, I guess the Thank You cards I write on behalf of my child are 'utterly ridiculous'.

If she is over 13, then perhaps a bit .

Sorry, just read your answer.

What is the problem though? Its not something I would have wrote but I know plenty of parents who would and thats fine by me.

What is the mums excuse for this? Other than she is nuts?

I don't personally write cards like this, but can quite of see why you would if child is not yet capable of writing own cards. But after that...

either they should do it themselves or if they won't, write on their behalf but not "as if"

She's 9 and her mother wrote it? Spoilt and ungrateful child?

quite of?

sort of!

Child had decorated front of card. On back of card mother had written "copyright (name of child)"

oh dear...

has she dramatically broken both hands in a skiing accident?

I have had this argument on here before! People take the high moral ground because they have produced a thank you letter-they completely bypass the point that it was written by mummy! They invite 20 children to a party, give out thank you letters that the DC has signed (if that)and this is supposed to be superior to the DC saying thank you as they open it. In the case of OP it would have been better on the computer or a phone call-or any way rather than the one used!

I think you are being a little judgemental, as far as I am concerned 'everyone to their own'. If it makes them happy then why let it bother you?

"copyright"

I actually wrote stuff like this when DS1 was a baby.

Now he's 10 I do it on the computer and pretend he's done it!

At 9? Either you make encourage them do it themselves or you do it, clearly from yourself - but you don't do it from them in that way once they are able to do it themselves... well NIMHO.

I think she has every right to be judgemental! The 9 year old was lazy and has her mother wrapped around her little finger! I would ask her what her last slave died of!