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[pixie]

Those ridiculous cookery programmes, with the likes of Nigella or Delia, showing us the perfect Xmas food to cook, from the perfect cottage in the country!  As if any of us have the time to faff about with all this, duck and pheasant flavoured cranberry stuffing etc!.

[Taz2]

It's not the time it's the inclination on my part.

Taz x

[pixie]

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[Joyce]

Why can't somebody write some new songs, instead the same old 1970s blast outs!

Modern Christmas songs are just not as memorable, even if it is for all the wrong reasons.

I nearly keeled over with stress one Christmas, trying to make sure everything was just so.  It was a horrid feeling, never again.

I agree that spending a lot on young kids seems excessive, we never spent much on ours.  But when they went to primary school immediately after Christmas they usually were asked what Santa had brought them.  My DD said that one year she got up and said she'd got a personal cassette player.  All her friends got TVs, computers etc etc.  She said she'd never put her kids through that sort of embarrassment.  A case of keeping up with the Joneses.

[lady57]

I can remember doing that at school, showing a present you had received. One year i got a lovely yellow teddy bear handed down to me from one of my cousins it was well loved and a bit threadbare (no pun intended), i loved that bear but when i took it into school as my favourite present the other children mocked and jeered at the 'old thing'. I still loved my teddy and still had it when i got married and my first child loved it too but i never did a show and tell ever again.

[Joyce]

I don't remember doing show & tell.  But then back in our day, oh no here comes another BIMDY moment  we were happy to get a present, no comparing with friends.

[CLKD]

We didn't show and tell, gifts weretoo precious to be hoiked around school kids where they might be dropped 

I have a dilema    another reason why I HATE this time of year 

[Taz2]

Show and Tell is brilliant! It encourages children to actually think about where they got the particular item, what it is used for, what it is made of etc and improves their ability to describe. It then encourages the rest of the class to remember their manners, to sit and listen and wait for their turn to add a comment or a question. It is not about who has the best or biggest of anything - it is used to improve social skills. We have show and tell for reception every day and for years 1 and 2 three times a week. Some of the questions the children ask each other are hilarious!

Taz x

[Joyce]

Taz that is so right.  I can remember some from my days as a nursery nurse.  It's a great thing to do with children.  Just never thought my daughter would remember those days and feel hard done by!  Our son couldn't have cared less about such things. 

[lady57]

I agree with Taz2 the child doesn't have to take anything expensive or breakable just something nice that they can talk about 

[Scampi]

That, unfortunately, depends a lot on the children in the class    I know when I was at school (and primary school was a while ago!), some of the girls in my class would have been as nice as pie in the classroom, or while the teacher was in earshot, but once there were no adult witnesses they would have been merciless in their ridicule of anyone whose 'show and tell' item didn't match up to their high standards.

[Elena]

I know just what you mean Scampi

we didnt have show and tell when i was at school either but both my children had it when they were at school.  Nothing nasty was ever said to them but then nobody ever took in christmas presents.  I dont really think that is a suitable topic for S&T to be honest. Too much opportunity for jealousy and nastiness there.  Plenty of other things to show and tell about.

[CLKD]

 

[honeybun]

My two loved show and tell....our primary did things that were collected rather than bought. I remember my son taking in a rather scruffy birds nest that had fallen out of a tree in a gale and my daughter taking a stone she had found on a beach on holiday and probably talking endlessly about it 

No chance of one up manship  there.

My daughter did have (and still has ) one friend that has been spoiled beyond all reason. She is horrible to her parents and has no respect for anyone. She can be polite if she has to but is fine with me because she knows I will not put up with any nonsense. This child had at least £500 spent on her every Xmas and birthday and that is a conservative estimate. My daughter learned that I will not play those kind of games, and I have to say she is probably the happier girl of the two. 

The parents have a lot to answer for.

Honeyb
x

[Oldteen]

I think the Boots advert is set far more in the real world than is usual at Christmas. Not full of fancy cars and sweeping drives and twinkling chandliers!

Taz x

I've seen that too - much better than showing a fairytale world.! I wonder if they'll ever show anyone living in a tower block on an estate?