oh jeez, your kiding, i have to buy the teacher a present do i?

[deanychip]

Really???
is that what is expected?

ah jeez.

a £4 bottle of wine will do the trick! don't be a meanie.

No you don't have to!

If you have a little one who wants to give their teacher a present, get them to make a picture or a card. I always liked those the best.

(Except for the expensive bottles of wine)

im new to it all so dont know the etiquate!
ds finishes in a week or so.

is that what people get them, wine n stuff?

ooooh ohh jsut remembered she LOVES toblerone, i could get her one of them with a card to say well done for not permitting ds to burn the school down....

I don't like the big groups of parents that buy a single prezzy and get everyone to put in money. Its too mechanical. Its so much more personal when a kid comes and gives me their hand drawn one and a hand wrapped bottle of smelly from body shop!!

I really like ds's teacher. He's been lovely to ds so I went a bit over the top and bought him a gift voucher for the local theatre so he could go and see a play or a concert there. This way he'd remember the concert and think of ds.

ah now dont up the fecking stakes!!!!!

she will get and enjoy a bar of toblerone....that IS IT.

you are tooo kind and thoughtful and generous and nice.

sigh

Don't be sucked in by the mommy mafia..believe me it gets really silly as the years go on. Presents at xmas and end of year..a plain thank-you said sometime during the stressy parts of the year would be worth more!!!

. I didn't want to get him wine. They drink it and associate your child with making them feel like shit. He seemed very grateful, I hope he is though. A change from the wine and mugs the other parents got him. M&S have soem tins of biscuits on sale at the moment so I got a tin for the rest of the staff.

I got a teacher that had taught ds for 2 years and was leaving a scrap book and a disposable camera.

i can do that, i can pinpoint stressy...(evry day isnt it???)

The Pier have a cracking sale on at the moment, get a nice bag, pop some tissue paper in with a couple of nice glasses and a bottle of wine. The glasses are really cheap, from abot £1.

My best present was from a little boy who watched all the other children giving me gift bags and cards. After a while he put his hand in pocket and brought out the picture of a mobile phone, which he had cut out and had been using in a game, and gave it to me with a big hug.

Really agree with this

"Don't be sucked in by the mommy mafia"

I got asked to give quite a high amount of money and was told if I couldn't afford that to give £x. I thought fuck yoo beotch!

My dd and I made the teacher a cake! AND I wrote her a really nice card. My DD had changed school and I truthfully said that my dd had loved being in her class and that having had such a great teacher had helped her settle in to her new country so quickly and so happily. \i hope that was better than a tiny share in a mommymafia voucher conglomerate

mrz

I got ds' teacher a gift from the oxfam unwrapped book one year, with the money I would have spent on a gift that she probably really had no use for I got a hundred exercise books for a school in Africa, she got the fridge magnet that they send you and ds wrote her a lovely thankyou note inside a nice card.

Three years later I still have his picture taped to my laptop while the wine and chocolates etc are long gone.

aaaw mrz

mine was from a boy who came from a family who were really living in dire circumstances, lots of drugs involved, living in hostels etc

anyway he was such a state, away with the fairies half the time, poor wee sod had retreated into a world inside his head mostly. I was reading a Roald Dahl book to the class at the time - everyone else sat on the carpet while he rolled around, climbed cupboards etc.

A few weeks later he presented me with a little present of one of the characters, not a main character either, it was quite a small detail he'd picked up on, and he said he'd really liked the story

i blubbed at lunchtime

To the OP - small and personal pressies are the nicest, don't get sucked in!! A letter if you feel your lo has had a good year is always nice.

D'OH - a picture of one of the characters that is...

No, you don't have to, but if you do, it is nice.

I always buy a box of biscuits when I give to the staff to help them get through the ghastly last week of term

My choice

Bugger!! I just started a collection for the teacher's present thinking they would prefer some vouchers and get themselves something decent than receive 30 boxes of chocolates. God, I feel awful now. Didn't realise they would want 30 boxes of chocolates. Oh no...I am the Mummy Mafia!!!

ahh BOLOX

i knew it would lead to no good.
bought 2 toblerones as i mentioned earlier that ds's teach liked these.
am half way through the 2nd bar now.
fuck it, will have to get another one and give it ds IMMEDIATELY for safe keeping.