To think that the nursery nurses getting my 10 month old daughter to make a mother's day card is pointless

[Reallytired]

Well she is a baby. She is more interested in crawling and eating bits of card board. She is perfecting her pincher grip by eating small bits of lego/ power rangers/ transformers off the carpet. (Not this precise second as she is asleep)

I have a mother day's card "made" my daughter. It just seems a total waste of time. I am sure there are better activites that they could do with her to improve fine motor skills.

are you due on?

Serious question.

I think its quite sweet really ...

YABU. She'll have enjoyed the paint.

Oh it's sweet though isn't it? Why on earth not?!

oh, give over

you joyless person, you

Not really being unreasonable per se but you are being miserable and mean-spirited.

Your first Mother's Day card and you wish they hadn't bothered... Do you think the same about getting any cards or gifts for the occasion? Until she can perhaps go out and buy it herself with her own money?

It's for your memories, not for her fine motor skills

You know,nursery nurses just cant win .

they have to do something with them

why not that?

It wasn't your time that was "wasted" was it?

Depressing, seriously. What is the matter with you?

Its up to nursery what they do with your daughter all day. You have handed over the responsibility. Perhaps it wasn't convenient for them at that particular time to be offering her better activities to develop her fine motor skills.

you would have to see the card. She didn't do any painting and I seriously doult she did any of the work of making the card.

It is a very pretty card and the art work is of a higher standard that I would be capable of. The nursery nurse who "helped" is an extremely talented artist.

I would prefer my daughter to do finger painting, or other messy play. I want her to be provided with experiences that she is developmentally ready for

YAB a bit U, unless you suspect she didn't have a hand in it at all.

ds1 brought his home last year from nursery and they'd written his name but tried to make it look like he'd written it IYKWIM (he had no idea how to write his name!). Now that was pointless. Card was nice though.

I think yhou have been overthinking this. I assume she just held a paintbrush and made a few splodges on the paper. What's not to like?

Got to second the joyless sentiment!

I made a mothers day card with my charge. Was meant to be a handprint flower. It's actually more like a brown turd. She mixed all the colours in the tray then smooshed it on the card till it was thin.

I cut out a flower shape and stuck it on, then gave her some glitter to sprinkle on. She ate it instead.

I obviously made and stuck on the flower shape. She had lots of fun creating brown and eating glitter. I hope her mum appreciates the effort I made to make her happy, and the fun her daughter had in experimental play.

Not as pointless as your apparent annoyance about it...

I was so chuffed with the card I got from DS2 that he made at nursery. A loverrrly yellow daffodil! He was most proud of it to!

YABU and a misery guts!

DS1 I mean

Do you know that they don't do any other activities with her?

Presumably your daughter isn't the only baby in the room. There will be a range of developmental stages for the staff to deal with. One nursery nurse probably did the craft activity, another did a different activity etc.

I think it's nice that they included you in the cards, even if your daughter wasn't particularly interested in that activity

was your dd put in a cupboard while the nursery nurse did this piece of artwork ?

even if dd had very little hand in it, she was there, she was present, she was absorbing the fun atmosphere of cards being created

believe me, I am not crafty, I am not a baking-cupcakes-type-of-mummy, but you are being very dour and a proper misery-guts

"I want her to be provided with experiences that she is developmentally ready for"

... what, all day every day, without fail?

don't be silly.

YABU and a bit joyless!