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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, That is wonderful that you want to make the holiday fun for your child.  You must be a good mom.

Fitting in is so important to kids, especially when they have something that makes them stand out like you mentioned for your daughter.

When you can make her happy by something as simple as taping a lollipop to her valentines cards, go for it.  It costs very little and ks well worth the fun.
Our favorite is small boxes of conversational hearts. You know, the kind of treat all of us (including the rabidly anti candy folks posting right now) gave to our friends in elementary school, (little pastel hearts with messages on them.)

If those are sold out, we try to get the traditional heart shaped lollipops. You can get these at any Target, Walmart, grocery or drug store.

My older kids like to give out popular candy like nerds.  Right now, the coolest of the cool is dipsticks.  If you give those away in the older elementary grades your kid is golden.

Don't listen to the hags who berate your parenting decisions for giving a small treat with the cards. They are the outsiders and do not represent most parents.

I would recommend that you stay away from chocolate, as that crosses into allergy teritory due to cross contamination risks.

Have fun![/quote]

I wouldn't have gone so far as to call them "hags". But I do kind of feel sad for their kids.  I just can't imagine growing up with parents who are that obsessive about what their children are eating.  I am a teacher and we have a couple of parents like that at our school.  We all think the mothers have serious emotional issues.  But what can you do?   I think we'll see an awful lot of eating disorders in D.C. kids in a few years.

As to the question, we usually do a card with some kind of candy - lollipops, m&ms, nerds, fun dip....any of those are great. I have a few parents who do a homemade treat, but I'm in a school where that kind of stuff is still allowed.  Kids do not care about stickers, pencils, glow bracelets.....  That stuff just gets tossed.  I try to keep my students from throwing them away in the classroom.  But honestly, a lot of it never makes it home.  The pencils are kind of nice for me because they all end up in our class basket.[/quote]

Ugh...Fun Dip.  Please do not send in Fun Dip.  That stuff is disgusting and messy![/quote]

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