What are your 12 year old girls getting as their main presents this year?

[sweetheart]

I've got plenty of stocking type ideas for dd this year but I'm really stuck with her main present. What will your dd's be getting this year please?

[quirrelquarrel]

Pygmy hedgehog?

Framed art print

Ice skates with membership to the nearest ice rink

Railcard/megabus voucher, if they do those, with spending money for a holiday (half term?)




I am at what 12 year olds are getting these days!

[Dumbledoresgirl]

My 12 yo has recently discovered roller skating (I know - a bit late) so she is getting roller blades.

She is also very artistic so she asked for a several pc programs and a tablet that allow her to do fancy graphics stuff on the pc, but they have proved either too expensive or will take too long to arrive, so regretfully that will have to wait for her birthday.

[Startail]

1/2 an Xbox and 1/2 a kinex.

Her almost 15 yo sister is getting the other 1/2.

She wants curling tongs and Converse for her 12 birthday which is not long after Xmas.

[qo]

he's getting an x-box with kinect, she LOVES playing on my friends one

[qo]

She's*

[sweetheart]

OMG those hedgehogs are super cute - my kids would LOVE them! They'd both quite like pet's actually but i just can't face the trauma after dd's pet hampster died 18 months ago. It was awful, she hand fed it for about 3 days as it chose a bank holiday weekend when the vets were closed to die

[TurkeysDontVote4Xmas]

GHD's. I'm delighted as it will stop her nicking mine

[Startail]

Oh and a hockey stick, bag to put it in and a leotard, but those are kind of in recognition of all manner of hobby related stuff DD1 has had off EBay through the year.

[CanonFodder]

Quirrel...this is exactly why we have just said not our 8 year old having an iPod touch. It seems that by the time kids get to 12/13 they have everything on a plate and nothing left to want, so parents have to go to bigger and bigger extremes. Tis crazy I tell you, when we were kids we were excited about walkmen or bikes or something at 12. Bloody modern life...bah!

[CanonFodder]

No To our8 yr old, sorry.

[quirrelquarrel]

I didn;t mean to be sniffy and snobby but I do agree with you! What's wrong with five or six things for Christmas- a book, jeans, CD etc. How are you supposed to "bond" with stuff if you have to share it with 20 other things...I mean my mum says that she could only afford an LP she really really wanted every couple of months or so when she was a teen (70s), and it was such a huge deal when she got one, she treasured it and still wore it out playing it so much. And at Christmas she got mostly practical things like clothes. And she still had a million interests and loads of friends.

But then I am a total Luddite, so I don't like kids getting games consoles and things anyway!

[Greenjellybelly123]

My daughters getting a 22 inch tv. A kindle fire. A camera all off me. And her dads getting her an iPhone 5s and tickets to see the vamps. Her grand parents are getting her a ps4 and a docking station between the 3 of them

[CharmQuark]

A 132" 3D TV, a jaccuzzi (plus outhouse to put it in and potted palms etc) , a personal visit from Justin Bieber, a chinchilla, a MacBook Pro, tickets for her and 3 friends to go to Barbados for a week, and some Uggs.

Unless she changes her mind - which 12 year olds do quite a lot over 6 months.

Still, it can all go back (except the Chinchilla) and her grandparents can maybe get a pony instead.

Or one of those micro-pigs.

But they give me the creeps a bit.

[mamalovesmojitos]

I'm stuck too. My dd will be turning 11, but I'm not sure what to get her. She doesn't have a phone/iPod touch/tablet/computer/telly in room but I don't think i want to change any of that yet, she's still young. We have been gifted a pre-loved wii, she only has Just Dance but she loves that!

She has a bike already. She loves reading but is joined the library! Has toys. Maybe some art stuff or uggs....Or an 'experience' like horse riding .

Stocking fillers, I'm thinking stationary, slipper socks, chocolate coins, body shop fruity soaps. None of this is very original!

[mamalovesmojitos]

CharmQuark you had me going there for a minute!

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

DD is 12 and is hankering after a pair of Uggs or Emu.
She knows 'not until your feet stop growing' so until now I've bought her the Costco Kirklands own brand .

She loves earrings, hair products, clothes.
She has an iPhone (she pays for), TV, laptop.

I'm sure she's been eyeing up the iPad Mini too.

[annabanana19]

My 12 yr old asked for a laptop. Fine with me cos she does a lot of homework on mine which has no Microsoft and is slowly dying.

[Burmama]

Get her some rock climbing lessons at your nearest climbing centre.

[itsbetterthanabox]

Zombie!

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

We book a driving lesson for DS and DD twice a year (usually May and November)
Young Drivers - they need to be 11yo + (I think up to 16-17) and 5' +.

[amyhamster]

OLD OLD THREAD

[amyjane93]

Im not a mum but I was looking for present ideas for my soon to be 12 yo niece and stumbled across this page so thought id try and help!
If shes an outdoorsy type, then have a look on website menkind.co.uk its got some great stuff! My niece is outdoorsy and loves her bike so Im considering getting her these fancy lights that make shapes and patterns/animations night and day, maybe this could be good for you? I'll put the link if you think its a good idea www.menkind.co.uk/fuze-wheel-writer

[SeeChooJimmy]

Dd1 (11.5) has a lenovo flex laptop and case, an lg smart tv, the new Adidas sambas, diadora as apparently they are in, fred perry polo, lacoste polo (eye watering £110 for both) 4 /5 new look outfits(can't remember exactly) ice watch, electric ball touch lamp thingy, make up and vanity case, still to get her a jacket and jimmy choo flash perfume.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

From the iPad mini coveting she's promoted her sights to the iPad Air 2.

Which on on it's way to us .................

Also got her a hair drier/brush to blow-dry and straighten her long locks.

[insanityscratching]

Dd's having a digital piano and lessons in the new year and then books, games and a stocking full of tat.