Is It Rude To Publicly Thank A DC Family??

[Unregistered]

Hand written is more meaningful then inpersonal electric print

The FCCP I worked for would write personal thank you notes to people who gave christmas gifts or helped with graduation. She would either give it to the them personally in a sealed envelope with their name on it or mail it to them if she knew she wouldn't see them for a while. It makes it more personal and they can look at it when ever they need a pick me up. They have packs of plain white blank cards that say thank you written on the front at the dollar store or michael's $1 bins. It's also very traditional and bringing back what some people call "the lost art" of personal hand-written thank you's. I'm only 21 and I keep all thank you notes from the provider and DCF's I get on a cork board and look at it whenever I need a pick me up.

[brookeroo]

It really depends for me. I wouldn't post if it were something like a gift card or something like that but I've had parents bring me personally cookies and another brought me a Starbucks coffee in the morning and I've thanked them both on facebook. A coffee from Starbucks can really make my day! But then again... they both were my only daycare people I was friends with on Facebook aside from my brother and sister in law. So, it really doesn't benefit me much to do it on fb in my case. I wasn't doing it to encourage people to get me gifts but more gloating about the wonderfulness that I was partaking in.

Honestly, not to say that they should feel obligated to but how often do you buy their kids gifts for holidays and birthdays and get nothing in return during xmas or whatever? It will be my first xmas. I will be interested to see what happens this season but I remember my mom never got much for as much as she did for her families.

Sometimes I wonder if they just don't even think about it more than they are being scroogie.

[SunshineMama]

I always write personal thank you cards and give it to the families at the end of the day. I wouldnt want to do it publicly and make the other families feel bad they didnt give a gift.

[Cat Herder]

If all the parents gave a gift, I thank for "all the thoughtful gifts" publicly.

If not all the parents brought in a gift I thank for "all the wonderful well-wishes" publicly.

The Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles are the only ones able to see my site so showing a little "public" gratitude does not seem rude to me. IMHO, it let's them know their family member is a wonderful, thoughtful parent whom I enjoy having around.

[crazydaycarelady]

I thank my dcfamilies all of the time on my dc facebook page. If they bring a toy in I thank them for donating it, if they bring treats I thank them and show a picture of the kids enjoying the treat. I had a dcmom bring me a Starbucks and I posted a picture with a comment about what a great way to start the day. I have also put a comment like "thank you for all of the wonderful Christmas gifts" but I don't thank them online for specific gifts to me, for those I give a thank you note.

I think an online thank you is fine, it is an expression between provider and one family, it really has nothing to do with the other families or how they feel.

Actually when I thanked all of my families online for the wonderful Christmas gifts I was hoping this one family WOULD see it! The things they asked me to do were so beyond the scope of my job description that a gift from them would have been nice! (like look through dckids poop for a penny he swallowed AT HOME, and shove dckids rectum back in if he pushed so hard it popped out!)