Christmas

[QualiTcare]

The idea of buying a gift for someone, is just that..Buying a gift! What that person does with the gift is not under your control. You dont give a gift if it is only to be be treated nicely, then you are giving a gift with the wrong intentions. When you give a gift, that is the end of your responsibility. What happens afterwards is up to the recipient.

I agree with PP. Giving a gift to all that will stay in your daycare for years to come, is a bit tacky.. You dont have to spend $20, and books from the dollar store is inexpensive and educational, and if they tear them up at their house, that is their business. You could even make up little goody bags with treats, pencils, etc and still not cost you more tha $5 for everybody..if you wanted to.

I have never given gifts to kids with the condition that it stays at my house..that is something my husbands ex does, and it ****s. Gifts should be given without restrictions.

i think buying something nice to stay at the daycare is a good idea, but along with that i would probably do the book/candycane or treat bags (something really cheap) and it wouldn't really matter if they didn't treasure it forever. it seems rational to an adult to only buy something that will last a long time, etc., but kids just want to open presents. they don't care what it is. i usually spend several hundred dollars on my own 2 children at christmas, and i always go to the dollar tree and buy them each like 20 things just so they can have more things to open. since most of that stuff ends up in the bottom of a bin or nowhere to be found a month later - it would make more sense to me to save the money and take them on a vacation, but i'd be one pissed off kid if my parents thought rationally at christmas time! ::

[caitlin]

I like buying each child a book, and writing something inside, and attach it with a small stuffed animal.