To want to rush into school and save dd from the embarrassment I have caused?

[MilaMae]

Finally show and tell for dd(5)'s group-going on a journey is the theme.

DD wanted to take in a plastic horse with wings "errrr no" said I and duly fished out a postcard from Ds's collection of a train. I then wrote down in detail the various modes of transport we took to go to the Tate Modern. I also made her find the giant pencil she bought with her pocket money from said museum.

DD is squirming and saying everybody will laugh,I say "nonsense" and pack it all up.

At school drop off can't help noticing Barbie princess carriages etc. DD's little face as I legged it after reassuring her that her things would be just fine is now on my mind.

I'm also having flashbacks to the 70s when my dad sent me into school with a yellow box containing at least 50 slides on pineapple picking and a speech complete with bullet points. I was 5 and the theme was fruit, everybody else just took a piece of fruit in. The worst thing was the teacher not wishing to be bored witless never "showed" said items and I had to contend with d&m asking if everybody had found it interesting-continuously!!!!

I have officially turned into my parents and embarrassed dd to boot,should have listened to her,she knew best.

So should I rush in with said unicornor put it all out of my mind and learn from the experience????

take the 'winged horse'. Any one that been on a train recently will know that they are not valid forms of transport - you never know what riff raff you might have to sit next to.

I would have tried to persuade DD to take something more interesting and would have failed (she took in yet another toy cat today).

Although as I help in her class on Friday mornings, I did get to see her teacher amazingly turn it into a discussion about how you know someone is a granny, as DD said it was a granny cat. She then got the teacher to pretend she had whiskers. DD is possibly a little mad I think .

Sorry for hijacking your thread with DD's madness....

As a family we suck at show and tell, probably because we give the ds complete freedom to choose whatever they want.

Ds1 (7)has been known to take the hoover attachments in - according to the teacher he gave a fascinating display of their various uses.

Ds2 (5) recently took in the bible and solemnly told his classmates that if he's good in the evenings he's allowed to spend 15 minutes at bedtime reading his bible. This is actually true (he's a strange boy).

Thinking over what I have written I would say your DD will be fine with what she has, but don't worry about her taking in something less educational next time

Awww, go bring in the winged horse. If it's valid enough for The Gods, it's valid enough for show and tell. Bit of imagination 'n all that.

During 1st StarWars film mania my Dad made up a really really really dire song about R2D2 to the tune of Daisy Daisy and he made my brother sing it in assembly. He survived, I think kids are tougher than we give them credit for.

a couple of years ago ds's class, aged 8 at the time had to do a piece about someone famous..

Most did beckham, pop stars etc...

Ds did Freud.. complete with finger puppet and a potted history of life and theories....

Can u guess what i study? Lol...

I like the weird kids. DS is coming along nicely in the nerdy stakes. So much more interesting than the standard stuff.

My nephew insisted on taking an oven glove in for show and tell. SIL thought he was mad but let him at it. Teacher told her afterwards that he turned it into a glove puppet and made it 'talk' to the class. It went down a storm.

I cover a Y3 and a Y4 class a day a week and have to undergo the torture that is show and tell... I'd be thrilled if anyone brought in something as interesting as a train postcard, plastic unicorn or pickled lung slices. I've had to retaliate and get my DH to borrow a rock collection from a geology teacher at his school so I can show and tell that (it is related to their science topic).

My own 5-year-old loves show and tell and will take all sorts in to inflict upon her long-suffering teacher; train tickets, Bible, toy monkey, a piece of paper, some stickers or anything else she can cram into her bookbag when I'm not looking.

MillaMae
I think you have learnt today the most imortant lesson of your life Your Dd does know best.

Congratulations, the umbilical is cut! You and your DD are officially launched into different orbits

I am rofling at Hoover Boy and Bible Boy.

Shes 5-let her use her imagination and be proud to show her unicorn-this is more age-appropriate. There will be time enough for you to do her science projects etc. in the future.

Update-1 very thrilled dd-the boys and her teacher loved the postcard,very thrilled little girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have now got dd and twin1 fighting over it .

But lesson learnt -the selection of show and tell items is nowt to do with me

Love the hoover boy and bible boy..i'm laughing so much i'm crying!!

me too, lilyjen!

i thought i'd gone into hysterics!

I found a dead dog fish on the beach when I was small and insisted on taking it home to take into school on the Monday. I can't remember the class's reaction, but I do remember my mother apologising profusely to the teacher for the stench.

35 years later I still feel quite proud about it. I bet no-one else had ever taken a shark in for show and tell.

35 year later my mother still remembers the occasion with horror.

Learn your lessson. Keep your neb out. Why shouldn't the kids talk about an imaginative journey?

[phew] that you got away with it.

Fast forward to next show and tell - Teacher - sick to death of Barbie and Ben10 - says "Ah, LittleMilaMae - you will have brought something interesting - what have you got?" - DD will produce the 15th Barbie of the day, as selected by her, will be thoroughly embarrassed, and it will be all your fault

It does make me laugh, because in this house it would be DS coming up with some terribly boring earnest idea and me trying to talk him into something a bit more - well - normal

Gubins I took in a mouse's skeleton I dug up from the garden once. It got confiscated. But I thought it was amazing!

I still think that kind of thing is amazing, Laweasel.

I may now have to adopt the names Hoover Boy and Bible Boy for ds1 and ds2. .

According to his teacher, what Hoover Boy didn't know about the relative merits of the crevice tool and the pet hair brush isn't worth knowing [proud mummy emoticon].

Ds2 is deadly serious about the bible btw. He was showing off in town one day and DH jokingly said to him "no bible tonight". So embarrassing - ds2 threw himself on the ground, crying and screaming "NOOOOOOO PLLLEEEAAAAAAASSSSE DADDY! DON'T TAKE AWAY MY BIBLE!" What must people have thought of us?

LOL - this will be me next year when dd1 starts school and wants to take her barbie in..
My mum was a teacher and once did show and tell on the theme of 'homes'. One little boy told the class that his favourite room was his parents room because he could lie on the bed and look at himself in the mirror on the ceiling. My mum could never look them in the eye again.

laweaselmys - That would not make it pass the door these days its risk assessment this risk assessment that. My kids love looking at dead animals, foxes, bats, birds etc they find it fascinating.

I took in a sheeps lung once.

In my defence we lived in the middle of the Lincolnshire Fens and half the class came in from farming hamlets.
I begged my mum to let me take it in to show them, it had all been rinsed clean, and I held it up proudly and demonstrated (with the help of my best mate) how to inflate it.
Then I stood there bemused as my teacher turned green and then sent me to detention.
Bitch.