When did Valentines day turn into

howleyshell · February 2012

Halloween part 2?

Seriously.... every single valentine my kids brought home from school today came with candy.

toomanycats1 · February 2012

I know! I was wondering the same thing when I picked C up from preschool yesterday... I thought I was doing pretty good sending a 4 year old with Valentines... now I feel like I put no effort in... Embarrassed

jlw2505 · February 2012

Which is why I love my older DD's school policy of no candy with the cards. The kids can bring in other other items but no candy. I still have a ton of candy in my house from Halloween because we just don't eat it much - we have cupcakes that my girls and DH baked on Sunday for dessert tonight plus cookies that my parents made for us that we will eat over the next week - they don't need candy! I sent temp tattoos with my girls cards today.

ironmommy · February 2012

My DD brought Valentine cards with pencils, but we also baked cookies and I sent one for each kid in her class. Sorry moms! My girl knows one sweet is all she gets, so I guess I don't worry about all that candy going home too much (except that I end up eating most of it!).

jellyjellybean · February 2012

That's why I did the melted crayon hearts. DS came home with stickers, a pencil, a tattoo and lots of candy.

howleyshell · February 2012

They seriously didn't bother to read or show interest in the paper valentines because they were so excited about all of the treats.What happened to the concept of Valentines being simple, sweet and expressing some form of friendship, love or admiration?It made me kinda sad that they seemed to be missing the emotional part of the concept of a day to celebrate expressing love. We've turned into a very gift focus society and it makes me sad. I hope I raise men who express themselves first with words and deeds of love instead of relying on gifts....

pandabearlover · February 2012

DD had her party yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised when she came home with a lot of cards with no candy or just one piece of candy attached. We just moved and at her old preschool, she would have gotten a bag full of candy from each of the 16 kids.

I went the pinterest route and gave little plastic animals. A couple of the other kids gave pencils or stickers.

KathrynMD · February 2012

I remember getting candy hearts/hershey kisses when I was a kid - that was in the 70's. I sent DD w/ paper Valentine's and lollipops for each kid. I didn't really think about it very much at all.

IIRC, the kids didn't exchange gifts (or cards) at Halloween with each other, but we did have a class party and trick or treating between rooms @ school.

alibee09 · February 2012

Ugh, that's so very irritating. Our school has a no-candy policy so we sent Valentines with little tattoos attached, since those are something DD is *VERY* into. She tried to help put them together but they fine motor skill associated with tearing them and assembling them was a little beyond her just yet (she was ripping a lot of stuff, heh heh).

Next year, she'll be writing better, so I'll expect her to sign her name and help me assemble whatever she decides she wants to hand out.

Spenjamins · February 2012

Yummy.

jerol · February 2012

jellyjellybean:
That's why I did the melted crayon hearts. DS came home with stickers, a pencil, a tattoo and lots of candy.

Love the crayon heart idea!

To OP- I know....it is absolutely ridiculous!

schnappycat · February 2012

I was shocked by this, honestly. Mainly because our school has a no treat policy for birthdays and the winter holidays, so i assumed we were to send paper valentines only. That's what we did, so I was surprised, dismayed, and frankly a bit embarrassed when DS came home with so much candy (and fancy, homemade cards). How was I supposed to know that was expected when it wasn't before? It's confusing.

I'm not really against candy, but they have parties two days in a row at DS's school, so that really did add up to tons of sugar. Plus not knowing in advance made me look very out of the loop.

KL777 · February 2012

DH and I will be sharing DS's candy---he got tons.

Princess_Lily · February 2012

DS is 2, and I felt super insecure with my first school celebrated holiday.

As a kid I remember all of my classmates made cards, just cards. We also had these cute valentines themed shoeboxes with a slit at the top, and all the kids would put their valentines cards into the boxes of their classmates.

So, this year, I brought the same cards as I remember as a child. Apparently, a lot has changed in 20 someodd years. A little girl brought balloons into the school, giving them to the Vice President...dressed in all red and white. This is a uniformed school! Some kids (aka mommies) made boxes with candy in them...cookies...lollipops...My child has a "sugar tooth," unlike DH and I who have a "salt tooth." It felt like christmas or something, a lot of over the top things being done...for a simple day to express love.

capulet · February 2012

I remember thinking last year I totally missed the memo about Valentine's Day, because DD came home with a whole bag of candy and I certainly didn't send her with any (just the storebought cards because I am so not crafty). We just moved and DD isn't starting preschool again until next week, so we missed V-Day this year and I'm kind of relieved.

KathrynMD · February 2012

I'm glad the mom's at DD's preschool/daycare are about equally lazy as me.

DD came home yesterday w/ ~20 little store bought Valentines; 4 or 5 included lollipops, 3 had stickers or tatoos, there were 2 "elaborate" ones but they were basically just pre-printed cards and one mom did an elabortely packaged Scooby Doo "magic" towel (LOL).

I didn't think it was excessive at all.

Smores730 · February 2012

we lucked out and didn't get too much candy. She had 3 separate mini bags of pretzels, bubbles and lots of fruit snack kinda treats. We did heart shaped fruit snacks ourselves. I remember getting candy in school but it was like 1 tootsie roll or 1 hershey kiss, not bags! Tongue Tied

akayf · February 2012

I sent in bear hugs. Teddy grahams and a couple hershey hugs. It was supposed to be just "You are beary special" but the bags looked so empty so I threw in a couple hugs. I gave DS the choice of beary special, somebunny thinks you're special(annies bunnies) or you are of-fish-ally special(goldfish) He wanted bears. He helped me fill the bags, attach the tag, and use the twist tie to close them. He had so many fun helping me.

Almost every card he got had some sort of lollipop or something on it. He also got a couple small hearts of candy(the small ones with 4-6 pieces of chocolate)

UpNorthGal · February 2012

I hear ya! I was thinking the same thing. DD received a few suckers but my DS received a ton of candy. Most of which is going into the trash.

kes77 · February 2012

I know, it's slightly out of control. I have to sort through all DD's Valentine candy now too in addition to Halloween since she has severe food allergies. When did just card stop being sufficient??????

MrsBalletStar05 · February 2012

Growing up, candy was always a part of the Valentines we gave to our classmates. I gave out candy and expected candy in return (not EVERYONE did, but most).

Paigeo · February 2012

Yeah I only sent DD to school with cards. It didn't even occur to me to add candy. Next year I might do stickers or tattoos but I can't get on board with the candy.

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