How To Make My Nephew Stop Sending Us Cards?

[NotQuiteCockney]

We got another card from our nephew today, thanking us for the little board book we gave him, at his recent 21-day party. He is not yet 6 weeks old. Shouldn't he have better things to do than write us cards?

Seriously, how do I get my SIL and BIL to stop writing letters "from" a tiny baby? I could cope if the note was from a child old enough to speak, but this is ridiculous.

It's such a load of shite isn't it??

I get a plethora of these-unfortunately don't see the guilty women often enough to put a kindly (yet firm) hand on their arm and say
'I know you have better things to do..really it doesn't matter,lovely as the though is.'

(21st day party??? Que??)

Oh, well their style may be a little odd to you, but what you rather - them not thank you?
I'd rather have a card, whoever it was written from to say thank you we received and are grateful for your gift.

I really hate people putting words in kids' mouths.

And frankly, I'm not mad for cards. My in-laws are, we get at least one card per week from them, for anything. It's like some sort of bizarre cult.

(21-day party is a Hindu thing. Or an Indian cultural thing? It was nice.)

With TC on this - I'd prefer a thank you "from" th baby to none at all. Give them a break - they're besotted and think everyone else is too.

Meant to add on the end of that.

I get pictures of kids (ready framed) as well as framed foot and hanprints for Christmas on occasion.

I think it is in the same vein as the ickle wickle thank you notelets-an overinflated sense of one's importance and position in the world but then,I'm a cynical ole' cow.

We get the same from some of DH's relatives. I agree it's better to be thanked than not, but it does make me want to barf..... They probably get as much pleasure out of writing them though as they imagine you do reading them. Not sure you can say anything.
(DH and I always have a good snigger about it tho')

I think it's quite nice. A bit sickly but not certainly something that I would risk offending them by asking them to stop. They're obviously wrapped up in their baby. Let them enjoy it, it won't last forever!

No, I won't really say anything, what can you say?

I just want to whinge, really.

I swear, we get cards for everything from DH's family. A "Congratulations on your first day at school, Grandson" card. A "We're so glad you had a giant poo" card. Really. It's like some sort of bizarre Clinton's breeding program.

LOL - yeah putting words in kids mouths is one thing, but saying thanks, on their behalf for a gift is another thing.

My bitch of a SIL never says thank you for anything, and I think she's an ungrateful rude whore

i know which I'd prefer is all.

We do get the annual photos too like moondog - why are they always so badly posed(like school photos) and I really bl**ody hate the coloured cardboard frames. Got a homemadeChristmas card last year which was better - at the least the kid had something to do with it

TC, twig wants you!

Ah, but this isn't, "thanks, Nephew". It's "It was so lovely to see you all at my party, and to finally meet my cousins, etc etc." He was three weeks old! He barely opened his eyes! He is not in any sense, present!

To be fair, it could be worse, it could be written in baby talk. Just the thought makes me shudder.

Blimey, TC, tell it like it is, girl.

X

LOL

lol giant poo and rude whore!

Ach, you're just jealous 'cos your kids couldn't write at 6 weeks old

scratch mittens might make it harder for him to type/write

Oooh, that's an idea hc.

Funny, his handwriting looks just like his mum's. Must be inherited.

They have cards printed with photos of him on the front, saying Thank You, his full name, and his date of birth. Nice photo, though, and tasteful card, really.

I'm with moondog on this. I don't even do thank you cards for birthday presents other than making sure ds says thanks in person when he's given a present. I really don't think anything else is necessary. Ha ha at Clinton's breeding programme, look at this: "We are not quite at the stage of 'Congratulations on your divorce' - but it sounds like we are not far off."

lol at bizarre Clinton's breeding programme!!

im a sad mummy and write thank you's from the kids.... oops!

TC - do we share the same SIL by any chance?! I feel exactly the same way!

LOL at the thought of the card being in baby talk!

Yeah I love my SIL really - NOT!

She's a vaggie and I'm thinking of getting her a meat knife for Xmas!

I agree with TC & SD and thank you for allowing me to post here NQC

PMSL - I meant veggie!

No TC better still, get her a giant ham .