How do you feel about how your kid's class is celebrating Valentines Day?

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kat_eden , Parent asks:

Both of my son's teachers (preschool and first grade) have asked that for Valentine's day we send in valentines for each child and that we don't put names on any of them to make distribution easier.

It feels like we're kind of white washing the fun out of this holiday. I understand why teachers made the shift of asking each child to give a card to each child (to avoid the hurt feelings that were always felt by the kids who didn't get many cards). But now that we're dropping names, it almost feels like a "why bother?" to me. Especially since most kids will deliver storebought cards with pictures from movies.

Are we really ready to have valentines day become one big movie commercial?

In Topics: Family fun / holiday celebrations

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Danielle

Feb 11, 2009

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It does seem odd and my son's teacher asked the same thing when he was in preschool. Now that he's in kindergarten, we're required to send in valentines for every child in the class but can write names on them. On the one hand, I agree with you, it does take out a lot of the fun for kids when they can't decide which favorite friends to give valentines to. On the other hand, it's heartbreaking to be the kid in the class who gets no valentines, as you watch your classmates counting their up, so I see both sides. We ask our son to put a personal touch on his valentines by making them himself, or at least drawing something on each one that's store bought.

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