Valentine's Day BS... Go back to bags!

[Anonymous]

We were required to have a carton from milk or OJ, neither of which we purchase. So we had to buy a $3 carton of stuff to pour down the drain, awkwardly cut a slot and cover with paper.

I'm with you, OP. I'd rather donate a bag of paper bags for the whole class!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Every year we get guidelines for Valentine's Day boxes that are so detailed it's insane. It is made clear this is voluntary, but something every kid must do. These kids have a lot of homework and tests. Not every kid enjoys making a box that must be:

-Shoe box completely covered with white people-nothing showing through (Neither I nor either of my children have a talent for covering shoe boxes with paper)
-Slot big enough for cards must be cut (How about they be allowed to open the shoebox for cards?!)
-Decorations must involve (fill in blank) theme
-Please use multiple colors
-Name must be prominent in contrasting color

How about you let kids bring in brown lunch bags and decorate only if they chose. How about the kid write his/her name on a shoebox and let friends open said shoebox and insert card rather than have my child stab herself trying to create the right size slot.

It's Valentine's day. It should be fun. No need to be so controlling. I'm all for insisting if you give cards, you must give to everyone. I'm even fine with no candy. Just don't create busywork!

Vent over.

Oh man, I can't even imagine this.

[Anonymous]

This sounds so horrible. I would buy a box and a package of stickers and be done with it.

DS hates Valentine's Day even though giving out the cards will be optional this year. He ends up doing it because he gets worried he will be the only one without them to give. We spend time looking for something that doesn't say love, isn't girly or too young. He's 9. Luckily we have never had to make a box. He has always struggled with writing and writing everyone's names was so hard when he was younger. It was a homework assignment.

[Anonymous]

Loved loved loved this sort of stuff as a kid.
Loved making handmade Valentines
Loved looking at the cards I was given.
Love doing this stuff with my kid.

I also don't follow rules. I'll make the box I want, how I want. I was like that as a kid and I'm like that now. I don't allow myself to get stressed over this kind of thing.
Life's too short.

Don't allow yourself to be stressed by crafts OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loved loved loved this sort of stuff as a kid.
Loved making handmade Valentines
Loved looking at the cards I was given.
Love doing this stuff with my kid.

I also don't follow rules. I'll make the box I want, how I want. I was like that as a kid and I'm like that now. I don't allow myself to get stressed over this kind of thing.
Life's too short.

Don't allow yourself to be stressed by crafts OP.

+1

[Anonymous]

Oh wow. I just remembered that one year I covered my box with foil. So shiny and cool.

But that was the 70's, possibly early 80's. I would be pissed if someone gave this dumb ass assignment to my kid and didn't even allow them to be creative with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds so horrible. I would buy a box and a package of stickers and be done with it.

DS hates Valentine's Day even though giving out the cards will be optional this year. He ends up doing it because he gets worried he will be the only one without them to give. We spend time looking for something that doesn't say love, isn't girly or too young. He's 9. Luckily we have never had to make a box. He has always struggled with writing and writing everyone's names was so hard when he was younger. It was a homework assignment.

Then write it for him or do labels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go back to bags? I remember making Valentines boxes when I was a kid in the 90s.

As a kid from the 80s, I don't remember this, but if we had things like this, we did them at school and parents weren't bothered by it. School was a bit more hands off back then and parents seemed less stressed.