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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.
Seems to me a Christmas card is a gift from the person or kid sending it. And if a kid/person does not wish to send such a card or does not wish to write anything in such a card, then I would NEVER force them to do so NOR would I forge their writing.
A gift or a "Merry Christmas" should be genuine, not forced.
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.
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