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Never saw it faked either. I don't care how "pretty" my kids' handwriting is and they signed the cards however they wanted complete with little drawn pictures. I even "translated" their words in my writing if it wasn't legible. That's as far as I will go.
What I think is odd is my dad will sign his name and then sign his wife's name on the kids' cards. My daughter will say, "Oh why do they have the same handwriting?" I don't know why he can't just sign it like Love us, Love your grandma and grandpa etc. instead of Love, Grandpa Love, Grandma. It's a piddly thing and I won't ever mention it but this thread reminded me of it.
I think that is odd, too. Sometimes I will sign cards, "Love, Mom and Dad" ---- very clearly in my handwriting. But, it is pretty obvious when we sign it separately because it says "Love, Mom" in my handwriting and "Love, Dad" in his handwriting.
I have seen some parents sign cards "hand over hand" with their child's name (usually for a preschooler who was just learning how to write his name or wanted to add their name but had trouble with it). But "fake writing" a child's signature is something that I haven't seen.
Umm...no. I just recently sent some thank you cards written by me as if it was my 3 year old but it was really obvious I was the one writing them and I didn't make the writing look like a 3 year olds. They said something like this, "I really love the fun new books you gave me for my birthday..."" blah, blah, blah. After I sent them I was thinking about it and realized that was a very weird thing for me to do. What has happened to me??? I told my husband we need a babysitter and a date night pronto. Just weird.
Umm...no. I just recently sent some thank you cards written by me as if it was my 3 year old but it was really obvious I was the one writing them and I didn't make the writing look like a 3 year olds. They said something like this, "I really love the fun new books you gave me for my birthday..."" blah, blah, blah. After I sent them I was thinking about it and realized that was a very weird thing for me to do. What has happened to me??? I told my husband we need a babysitter and a date night pronto. Just weird.
LOL I do send thank you cards and let them "scribble" on it. Then I write under, "This says, I love my toy...." and whatever message you want to convey. I too think I am weird for it but shrugs, my kids will only be kids once.
This is beyond weird. I've never heard of such a thing. I've never even heard of anyone expecting a preschooler to send out a card on his/her own. Christmas cards are from the family and either myself or DH signs them. The kids are included as part of " family"
If a two,three, four year old gets a gift who in their right mind expects a thank you card signed by the kid ? An in person thank you or a phone call from the child is fine. Maybe mom sends a written thank with her own signature on it. But a child that young no way. I work on the assumption that most people understand age appropriate responses.
When you send out Christmas cards and the like, and your pre-school age kid either refuses to write or doesn't know how to write his/her name, do you write it for them in your best kid-like handwriting?
I've received cards from other parents where the parents are pretending the kids can write, but the fake handwriting is poorly disguised. Wondering if this is common.
I would never fake anything to make my kid look better than he/she is.
My 23 month old's favorite letter is W.
He loves W so much that when he sees an M, he turns his head upside down/sideways and then yells, "W!"
There is no W in his name.
But I let him make a W.
Then I hold his hand and we write out his real name (which he recognizes but comes nowhere near able to write).
As for gifts, for my dad's birthday I told him to make a picture (scribbles) and decorate it with stickers. He picked out the stickers and placed them himself.
We framed it for my dad. W was prominently featured.
My 23 month old's favorite letter is W.
He loves W so much that when he sees an M, he turns his head upside down/sideways and then yells, "W!" There is no W in his name. But I let him make a W.
Then I hold his hand and we write out his real name (which he recognizes but comes nowhere near able to write).
As for gifts, for my dad's birthday I told him to make a picture (scribbles) and decorate it with stickers. He picked out the stickers and placed them himself.
We framed it for my dad. W was prominently featured.
That reminded me of when my daughter was quite young. For some reason she was entranced with writing "MOM" and "DAD" (her first written words--I think even before she attempted her own name).
The funny part is that she spelled "DAD" like this "BOB" and she was constantly writing MOM and BOB over every paper that she would find, at school, on cards, at friend's houses, at her grandparents' houses, etc.
On numerous occasions people would very hesitantly ask me "Who is this BOB fellow?" as my husband's name is definitely not Bob. To this day, I still think that some people wonder if there was a mysterious man named Bob in the life of my daughter and me at that time.
This is beyond weird. I've never heard of such a thing. I've never even heard of anyone expecting a preschooler to send out a card on his/her own. Christmas cards are from the family and either myself or DH signs them. The kids are included as part of " family"
If a two,three, four year old gets a gift who in their right mind expects a thank you card signed by the kid ? An in person thank you or a phone call from the child is fine. Maybe mom sends a written thank with her own signature on it. But a child that young no way. I work on the assumption that most people understand age appropriate responses.
We worked up to thank you notes written by the child. At first, I wrote and signed. When they could write their names, I wrote the thank you, and they wrote their names. When they got a little older, they started writing the whole note. I would think it was really strange to get a card "signed" by a 2 year old!
We worked up to thank you notes written by the child. At first, I wrote and signed. When they could write their names, I wrote the thank you, and they wrote their names. When they got a little older, they started writing the whole note. I would think it was really strange to get a card "signed" by a 2 year old!
Depends on the 2 year old.
When they are kids, we all know the parents are prompting the gesture anyway.
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. I just sign with our family name "The XXXXX family".
When they get bigger they don't have time. We just do ______ family on the few actual card we mail.
