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Hmm, got an email from daycare saying to please provide a valentine's day card to each child in the
This wasn't a "please be thoughtful and if you decide to exchange, provide a card for everyone" email, it was saying Please provide a card for every child.
You don't get a choice lol. (Not everyone wishes to participate in holidays like Valentine's day...i went above and beyond the last few years but this year I am doing the bare minimum.)
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Re: Hmm, got an email from daycare saying to please provide a valentine's day card to each child in the
Oh for crying out loud.
I don't care, I will give a card to every kid but I just get irritated when it's mandated. Everything is so freaking PC and controlled now.
Wow! What if there are parents who don't celebrate holidays at all--are they still expected to distribute valentines?
While I'm typing I think I may understand the rationale. It's not so much a mandate that you have to do it. It could just be that they don't want any of the kids to feel left out, especially kids so young. Sometimes no matter what a family celebrates or doesn't celebrate a kid will feel left out if they don't get something, you know? Younger kids may internalize the fact that all the other kids got something from someone but I didn't. I don't know--it makes more sense in my head than how I'm explaining it.
I'd just do those ordinary store-bought Valentines and call it a day. They're cheap enough that you don't feel like you're breaking the bank.
That is so friggen ridiculous. Now you can't even call a Hallmark holiday by its correct name????
I thought the same thing---IF you are doing the exchange, please remember to give EVERY kid a card---which is totally sensible. But the email specifically said that the classes are exchanging cards and a list of names will be sent out and to bring in cards for every kid. No big deal, I spent a fortune on making elaborate things for Max's class in past years, but I have no problem doing cheapo $1 cards for the whole class. What bugs me is that I am TOLD to do it (things like this irk me in general). For the price MA daycares charge for tuition, they should send home the paper, glue, and friggin glitter for us to make them lol.
LOL! I think the whole holiday is stupid so I totally laughed when I saw the notice about events being planned for friendship day.
wouldn't those people be prone to the whole SAHM/homeschooling lifestyle?
not necessarily . we have a Jehovah's family in my DD class. they just bring the child in late on bday mornings, and I assume they will come in late or not at all on vday, because the kids do do a card exchange.
This. I did Valentines every year w/my class. I always sent the same note home. There were always kids that never had.
That's fine, but we just wanted to give a heads up so your child is not left out. I think u are totally over thinkign this.
This. M's class has a art project to make the mail boxes and I'm sure time to fill all your friend's boxes set aside that day.
Honestly, I don't get the big deal. Its not like they are asking you to bring rosary beads for today's prayer session. It's a freaking Hallmark holiday. But Valentine's at the dollar store and move on.
I'm sure if there is a family that doesn't want to be part of any celebrations, they discussed it before they even enrolled their kids. And quite frankly they'd be the topic of the "OMG. I can't believe we can't celebrate Valentine's because of one family" post here on the nest. I know because they *were* just this past December.
We were also asked to supply one empty tissue box and one empty water bottle for a craft project. It wasn't an "if you want to" thing. It was "mandatory". Would you complain about that too?
I don't know, Jess, I think you are being somewhat ridiculous. It's pretty standard to exchange Valentine cards in the classroom even from when we were kids. I don't think the teacher was wrong to assume that parents would be participating.
As for spending a fortune in the past, well that was your choice to do that. No one forced you to do that.
It seems like something else is bothering you and this just pushed you over the edge.
the bare minimum is the card for every child. And likely it was also sent to make sure the kids didnt write V day cards to their friends only.
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What the f?ck? LOL.
Where did you get THIS from? where did i say anyone FORCED me make a big deal out of anything in the past? I made a big deal out of Valentine's Day for previous years when I lived in NJ and yeah, I enjoyed it. Max is in a new state, and I dont like the daycare as much as I did in NJ. So I am choosing not to go out of my way. It's not the teacher either, it's the daycare owner who emailed.
I think you girls are reading into THIS too much. All i said was that I don't appreciate it being laid out to me that I have to "do" anything. You can't even write a simple little pffft on here without having everyone break out their Ph.D.s and reading glasses in order to diagnose me as over the top or having some deep-seated problem.
Remove the sticks, ladies.
Again, I don't think the email was sent to force you to participate. I think they just assumed that you would, since that is a tradition that has been around for awhile. They just want to make sure that every child gets a Valentine from everyone.
I still don't understand why this annoyed you so much. It's not like it's anything new. I guess you came across more annoyed than you are, perhaps.
I don't have to remove any stick, Jess. You are the one getting upset over nothing more than the director asking you to make sure that everyone child is included in the Valentine exchange. It's pretty standard in schools today.
This made me laugh. At my daughter's school they call it Valentine's Day, but there can be no decorations with St. on it. Also, we have to provide cards for the each student, and they cannot be labeled with names so each child gets the same thing. It is very PC now.
What I understand is why it bothers YOU so much that I am annoyed. So I am annoyed. What does it matter to you that you had to specifically point out that I am overreacting? I wasn't asking for advice or any empathy, I was merely pointing out that it annoyed me. Posters on this board specifically whine and moan about far less annoying things and people skip right over them, prob rolling their eyes. The owner (not the director) emailed everyone and yeah, I found it a little annoying but I was just randomly musing about it on the nest. I guess I should only come out around Mother's Day and whine about how it's so god awful that I have to share "my day" with my own mother lol or some other nestie hot topic.
And yeah, I have kids so I do know what is standard in school. I just feel like you're being pretty condescending all of a sudden, just randomly.
I post on here infrequently now that I moved out of state. I guess I should stick to Facebook lol.
teachers will continue to tell you what to do from now on LOL Mine all do. I am sure they all think we are a disaster. You will have to get used to it.LOL.