Cash as a gift for daycare teachers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While I personally would LOVE to receive that amount of ca$h as a holiday gift, I think it may be a little too much to gift your child’s daycare teacher.

I would either opt for a gift card to Target, etc. in a far lesser amount or possibly a small, token gift 🎁 such as a boxed bath set or some quality boxed chocolates.

Why too much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While I personally would LOVE to receive that amount of ca$h as a holiday gift, I think it may be a little too much to gift your child’s daycare teacher.

I would either opt for a gift card to Target, etc. in a far lesser amount or possibly a small, token gift 🎁 such as a boxed bath set or some quality boxed chocolates.

Please do not listen to this poster. A boxed bath set? Are you for real? Boxed chocolates when many of these extremely hardworking women are probably on food stamps because of how poorly paid they are? Please get all the way out of here with that nonsense.

Give what is comfortable for you, OP. We used to do $100 for each teacher in cash, this year we did $50, because things are tighter for us. I would make sure to give it in easily spent denominations (i.e. don't do two $100 bills).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have 2 daycare teachers that have been amazing for our toddler.

We were thinking of giving $200 each in cash in an envelope. Is this tacky?

We could give a gift card but all the reviews for Amex and Visa gift cards are terrible.

Not tacky at all!! That would be amazing to receive. I'm still trying to spend a $30 gift card someone gave me years ago because it's for a store where I almost never shop. When you earn as little as daycare teachers do, you can stretch that $200 further than some people realize.

[Anonymous]

Please avoid amazon gift cards or from a company you're not sure they're using.
I personally don't shop on amazon or similar.
So I'd rather get a cash gift that I can spend in a store I really like (marshalls, ross etc).

Maybe they'll just spend it on their grocery bill and that's fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please avoid amazon gift cards or from a company you're not sure they're using.
I personally don't shop on amazon or similar.
So I'd rather get a cash gift that I can spend in a store I really like (marshalls, ross etc).

Maybe they'll just spend it on their grocery bill and that's fine.

Amazon has everything you could want and most people aren't weird about using a service that has wildly improved most lives (which is why it is now so powerful and Jeff Bezos is a billionaire.) Besides cash, Amazon is the most generic gift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While I personally would LOVE to receive that amount of ca$h as a holiday gift, I think it may be a little too much to gift your child’s daycare teacher.

I would either opt for a gift card to Target, etc. in a far lesser amount or possibly a small, token gift 🎁 such as a boxed bath set or some quality boxed chocolates.

No one wants your stupid chocolates or bath bombs. You’re just cheap.

[Anonymous]

Former childcare director here.... YES - if you can afford it, that's great! And if you can afford much less, give that.

Just put the money in a card and envelope and write something about how the person means so much to your child/your family. Personalize each one.

AND do NOT just leave the envelope with anyone else to give to the other teacher. Or in their cubby, or any other place. Money and cards get stolen quite a bit. So either hand the envelope to each person OR hand it to the morning teacher at drop off, the closing teacher at pickup, OR if you don't see the 2nd teacher, give it to the Director and ask her to hand deliver (tell her there is money in it)

[Anonymous]

Generous, and I am sure well-deserved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While I personally would LOVE to receive that amount of ca$h as a holiday gift, I think it may be a little too much to gift your child’s daycare teacher.

I would either opt for a gift card to Target, etc. in a far lesser amount or possibly a small, token gift 🎁 such as a boxed bath set or some quality boxed chocolates.

No one wants your stupid chocolates or bath bombs. You’re just cheap.

Yup

[Anonymous]

We did a note of gratitude from me, coloring from child, and $100 cash each to the three main teachers and then $100 to the pool the parent association does that gets spread among the teachers and support staff.