How cool is it to send a photo of your child dressed as santa?

[robinpud]

Just wondering.. have received 3 so far..
Anyone got any thoughts?

goodness me

Who cares if it is cool or not?!

Chrismas is naff as all hell anyway now
Having kids not exactly cutting edge is it?

Combine the two and you are bound to get children dressed as reindeers or xmas puddings in xmas cards eventually!

Don't put them up if it offends you, it's your house you can display what you want

(I don't do it personally but I don't care if others do)

life seems to be so 'me me me'

do you mean the people sending or the ones receiving and whinging about it (Or both) noanotter?

Well I send photos of ds, the last couple of years I have sent homemade ones with a photo of ds on but this year I am sending those christmas cards where you can insert a photo in the front of the card. I don't care whether it is naff or not. I stopped sending cards a few years back because I could just not be bothered but when we had ds I thought well now we are a family I ought to make an effort and as I don't like sending cards I wanted to make it more personal. I did consider sending those ones with a picture of your town on but I thought that they were a bit snobby although I do like receiving them.

a far nicer way to say "im thinking of you, have a nice xmas" is to phone the person

i feel im sending cards to people i dont even like or speak to, sending cards to me is a cop out

can you tell i dont like cards

you get one through the door, open it, read it, then forget all about it til you have to put it in the recycling bin

very festive

well said irishyouamerrychristmas

Have sent dd dressed up christmas cards for 2 yrs now! She is now 15 mths and just loves to pose for the camera!

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Why should Christmas be cool? I'm planning to send people a pic of my boys with santa hats on in front of the tree - family members will love it, a friends we hardly ever see like to know how they're growing up. I wouldn't put it in cards to business colleagues or the milkman though!

If I could have got my act together I would have used Photoshop to turn the pics into cards themselves.

Surely the point is that is personalises the message. What I don't like is card that are untouched by human hand - big, expensive and pre-printed.

All those who did links to their children's pics - they look lovely!

blueamema so cute!

i would rather shoot myself in the head than EVER do anything so overtly crass. how up your own arse is it to send pictures of your own chilren to people and expect them to like it ( grandparent excluded)

god it really doesnt bother me

agree totally with countess dracula

CHRISTMAS is naff you style mavens

custardo

i don't understand why close friends & family would be offended by little picture? If they where they would tell me anyway. A merry christmas to you too custardo

I think a picture of the whole family not just the children' (in santa outfit or not - up to you) included with the card is fine, especially to family who might like it or to people a long way away who you want to keep in touch with but don't see very often.

What I really hate though is those Christmas cards with a picture of the children on the front sent to everyone. If you send me a Christmas card it is about Christmas - send me A CHRISTMAS CARD, if you don't want to send a Christmas card then don't bother just post me a photo of your children.

I like to see photos of my friend's children if I don't see them often but this is a separate thing from getting a Christmas card.

Afraid I'm with custardo here. They really are a pet hate of mine. I'm not a huge fan of other peoples children at the best of times and am just not interested in getting photos of gurning kiddies as christmas cards. As I mentioned before I disliked it more when we were trying unsuccesfully to conceive and this year we have just had pretty bad news about our unborn baby having a potentially very serious condition - I'd rather not have other peoples happy healthy kids rammed onto me.

I know this makes me seem ungrateful and curmugeonly but there you go......

sorry to hear that about your baby liatHoHoHo I truely hope all is well for you all.

I perfectly understand why it's not tactful to sedn pictures to frineds trying to conceive but family?

Two weeks ago the children had a lovely photo taken at their nursery. We have sent them to all the overseas rellies, who are always clamouring for pictures and sent some of the mini ones to family here.
Unfortunately more poor sister who is a huge fan of her neice and nephew is also trying to conceive and has been for a year. I sent a photo to everyone else, is was difficult to know what to do here. I sent her one anyway because she loves them.

Well actually - I see think Christmas card are about reminding people of the Christmas message/story. This to me is a Christian thing. I personally always send card with religious scenes on for this very reason (though I am donating to charity this year instead of sending cards.

If you want to send Christmas cards then surely they should be about Christmas and not about our children.

I do understand that it is nice to keep in touch with people and to send photos - nothing wrong with that but to me Christmas cards are about Christmas itself. I object to getting a card that says 'Merry Christmas' with pictures of real people on them.

I can accept non-religious cards as at least they depict some of the things that go with Christmas (presnts/Christmas trees etc.) However when you put a picture of a real person on the front (child or adult) you really are taking ALL the Christmas meaning out of them and saying 'Well this is just all about me/us'.

I share your sentiment Irishyouamerrychristmas

I really like getting pictures of other people's children. Especially as so many of my good friends growing up/from my "yoof" live miles away and I manage to see them once or twice a year max, at best. I have a bit of wall in my kitchen where I stick photos of "other people's children" - all higgledy piggledy - and it is really nice to have a look at how they have grown up, who looks like who etc. My mum and old friends come around and go "oh, are those Clare's three? Aren't they similar" etc etc. I don't think its boasting, it is just keeping in touch.

And yes, I do a photo card of mine as well. I DON'T give it to eg school parents (they see enough of my children), I do send it to relatives, friends I don't see so much of, etc. And I ALWAYS send one to Cod because I know it makes her snort, and she'd never admit it but she quite likes getting it