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.

Oh dear. You are a miserable fucker, frankly, aren't you?

Bamboo - more likely they held your ds's hand and "helped" him write his name rather than faked his signature.

and actually, I feel rather angry with you, OP

there are many women out there, who would give their right arm to get a Mother's Day card from a lovely baby girl...even if it was mostly done by a carer

get a fucking grip...and count your blessings

YABU I have a Mother's Day card 'made' by 10 month old dd with dh it is made from her handprints, I also have one made by 4 year old dd and 7 month old ds again made using handprints and I love them.

Would you prefer they sat her in a playpen all day pincing small objects? Don't be such a grump.

And, it's Friday. Why have you opened it already?

Is this your first mother's day? You really do sound like a miserable sod to be honest.

yabu
it is a nice though
should I complain about the ones dd's does.....
I mean she must have had help.......
misery guts

Missus84 - do you reckon? I must be more cynical than you !

Why don't you go into nursery tomorrow and tell them that you don't want the Mother's Day card and you want your dd doing developmentally appropriate activities. I'm sure they'll be delighted to see you/

I work in a nursery bamboo - for the littlies we help them write their name, then write it in pencil for them to trace over, and by the time they're in pre-school most can write it themselves. Never occurred to me that parents would think signatures were being faked tbyh!

yabu. dd, 9months, made a card for me at nursery today. it has one handprint and one smudgy fist mark on it!! Its perfect!! I love it

even if nursery staff had more input than your dd at least they are thinking of you and involving your dd in new experiences

There is a picture of my DS on the wall at his nursey of him at about 11 months old (and not a very advanced 11mth at that...he'd only been sitting unaided a week or so.) He's sat at a little chair up a little the table with a paint brush in his hand a look of intense concentration on blobbing paint on the paper in front of him.

I didn't even know he could sit in a proper chair, hold a paint brush or concentrate on getting paint on paper. I thought he was far too young for all that.

Pictures are rubbish though

Missus 84, it wouldn't surprise me to see writing traced over (that's what I'd have done with him) but this seemed freehand and how a 3 year old would write if they could - which he couldn't.

I'm making this sound a big deal which it really wasn't .

Anyfucker, before DS was conceived I'd have given my right lung for a mother's day card, never mind my right arm.

Let's be charitable:

OP - PND?

Seriously. Get yourself checked out.

Reallytired I felt really quite sad for you reading that post. Stop worrying about what she is developmentally read for, some things are just for the fun of it and the nursery obviously wanted to do something nice for all the mothers. I think it was designed to put a smile on your face, not to start posting negative threads on mumsnet.

YABU.

Me and my charges aged 14 months to 36 months made canvas pictures today for Mother's Day. They had great fun splodging the paint and smearing it to a lovely shade of poop (why does that always happen?!) feeling it squish through their fingers, and pushing it around with fingertips and heels of their hands and finding out how it moved and spread about. And even greater fun washing their hands afterwards!

Not one of the parents said a word about it. Not a word of thanks or an Awwww! Even when it was pointed out that it was for Mother's Day.

Ungrateful gits. And I include you in that too OP.

Missus84 is pre school when they are 3? My DS is 2.8 and dont think hes anywhere near writing his name...

georgi...precisely

I spent many a fucking miserable year wishing that I could get a Mother's Day card

No way is this real.

The first mother's day cards I got from ds1 and ds2 - thanks to nursery - were hand print designs. I know they didn't work out the designs themselves but it's lovely to have handprints from when they were tiny to see just how tiny they were IYSWIM.

and anyway *drinkyourmilk - your charge's mum is going to love her 'present' - twinkly shiny sparkly glitter poo (assuming the charge still wears nappies!)

Hi brother!

Seems us NN's never get it right.

Add it to the list of shortcomings because we don't mind being slated all the fucking time...