Shall I write an alternative diary for the school bear?

[Molehillmountain]

He's with us for the week and I am hugely tempted to take him to greggs and buy him sausage rolls and fruit shoots, given the wholesome experiences recorded in his diary so far!!!

Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it.

Do it!

You could do a dark, intense account focusing on his difficulties settling into the existing toy 'clique' at home, his loneliness, the insecurity of the other toys, the inner turmoil of The Bear.

Pleeeeease do it. Take photos of him

Do. I hate the competitive parenting that went on through our nursery bear. This may be because when he came to us, DD caught chicken pox so he stayed at home for a week and was returned with me saying "I don't think the virus lives on fake fur, but you might not want to give him to someone else straight away...."

Do it! Going off the beautifully illustrated, laminated pages of trips out in our school bear's diary something like that would be a welcome change for it!

Ha, yes crunch! A new 'home' every week...fill the book

I'm so weak-peer pressure does it every time! Perhaps we could write it online?

"Bear helped with the laundry" pic of bear surrounded by suds in washing machine

"Bear went to Youth Club" pic of bear and teenage dc in the park with a bottle of cheap cider

"Bear helped Daddy buy Mummy a birthday present" pic of bear and Daddy at Ann Summers

"Bear learned the Green Cross Code" pic of bear under car tyre

Oooh I did this with the class cat! It was getting a bit "competitive" IMHO. A very kind mnetter photoshopped some pictures for me so we had the cat on the balcony at the royal wedding, walking with the beatles on the abbey Road photo, on the moon landing, being rtead a bedtime story with captain jack sparrow, on a camel in front of the pyramids.

Apparently the kids loved it when the book was read out at story time!

How can they fit so much into their turn! The bear as an inadequate stay at our house and reports us to bearline truamatised ! love it crunch ha ha

Too near the truth to say "bear sat on the sofa and watched cbeebies"

If he doesn't look like he'd withstand a turn in the washing machine then you could bag him up and stick him in the freezer overnight. This too kills off some of the bugs he may be harbouring.

I have been sorely tempted to do worse than take bear to greggs. I would love to make up a little bed for him and a pink cuddly toy to share (photograph obligatory) after capturing an image of him chilling on the sofa with a can of lager and packet of fags.

Of course I was way to chicken to do any of this with ds1 and they seem to have done away with class bear now that ds2 is at school.

Take him to the skate park to learn some tricks-photos of bear and skate board flying through the air, picture of bear and ambulance, in ÂnE, all bandaged up recovering on sofa with cbeebies, sausage roll and fruit shoot

Oh please please please do it! Write the first bit and I'll contribute. It can be a Mumsnet art project.

Ours drinks with the mummies after the children has gone to bed. He has also had a affairs with several other teddies and on one occasion he was caught with a credit card, a rolled up £20 note and some white powder when he returned from a night out. Needless to say the teachers know none of this, but pictures circulate by e-mail of his exploits.

I think he should escape back to the wilds craving a peaceful slumber under the duvet for a season or two and having left a brief note of goodbye in the diary. possibly a pic of loaded hankie on a little stick over his shoulder wandering off into some woods.

other parents will thank you from the bottom of their hearts!

and you get kudos for having enabled him to find his own way in the world with confidence and hope!

win-win

Could you post a photo of the bear here and let us use photoshop to help you write the diary

Hmmm-not sure of the photo-might out me and ds would be expelled! But yes-a thread. In chat? Or here? And do we do an entry a day to keep it running, or do one big, cathartic run of it?!

In chat - an entry a day sounds good

How about a picture of bear heading off into the woods with a loo roll?

Hi, we've moved this into Primary Education.

Ooh-thanks! I got a bit enthusiastic and started a thread in chat too! Slightly about being so keen!