Has the world gone mad????
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glitzyglamgirl
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Friggin'eck thats ridiculous!!!!
Im sure children without mothers for whatever reason would love to make one for a big sister, or an auntie, or even a friends mother.
That really is PC gone crazy - that schools not far from me, I just hope it doesnt spread!
Im sure children without mothers for whatever reason would love to make one for a big sister, or an auntie, or even a friends mother.
That really is PC gone crazy - that schools not far from me, I just hope it doesnt spread!
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thats pathetic.... 
I've just read that
Its so pathetic, so if these children don't see their biological mothers or their Mum's have died etc, I expect the majority of those kiddies have some sort of Mother figure, How about Grandma's? the fathers partners etc they could just adapt the card to suit.
This country is getting worse, it really does make me want to leave it, but then again I may 'offend' someone if I think bad of this country & I don't want to upset them now do I, so best I stay put
Its so pathetic, so if these children don't see their biological mothers or their Mum's have died etc, I expect the majority of those kiddies have some sort of Mother figure, How about Grandma's? the fathers partners etc they could just adapt the card to suit.
This country is getting worse, it really does make me want to leave it, but then again I may 'offend' someone if I think bad of this country & I don't want to upset them now do I, so best I stay put
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lol @ Nicki! 
I think kids are wrapped up in too much cotton wool sometimes, mostly by the authorities/government as most mothers know that life lessons are vital and kids need to learn somethings the hard way to prepare them for the big wide world. All I can see kids at this school learning is that not having a mother makes you more important than the other kids and thats obviously not a good lesson is it?
I think kids are wrapped up in too much cotton wool sometimes, mostly by the authorities/government as most mothers know that life lessons are vital and kids need to learn somethings the hard way to prepare them for the big wide world. All I can see kids at this school learning is that not having a mother makes you more important than the other kids and thats obviously not a good lesson is it?
I think "political correctness" and this kinda stuff is just crazy. Next they won't make Christmas cards incase a jewish kid attends the school and feels left out because they don't celebrate christmas, or Easter, goodness what if a child isn't religious and doesn't believe in Jesus, making a card relating to his reserection is surely going to upset. We made fathers day cards at school but oh yeah I don't have one of those....boo hoo at the memory of having to make a card for that! Gosh and to think I grew up in the days where a blackboard was a blackboard and not a chalk board incase it offended a coloured child...what a terrible childhood I must have had, oh but wait, our kids go to school today and are taught on white boards........hummm the world is ironic, that surely is racism!!!!
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They are just making it more and more difficult for us who live in the real world to raise our kids with a real sense of whats right and wrong!
I hate to be the one to to disagree here but in a way I agree with this. My OH son lives with us as his mother abandonned him when he was 3. Although he lives with us he has never thought of me as a mother because of the age gap between me and OH. So to be sitting in a lesson watching others make mothers day cards and him having no one to make one for, well he would feel a bit crap. I'm sure he's not the only one either.
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thats complete B*ll*cks! Like Nicki said those children are going to have some sort of woman figure in their life to send a card too. Dont get me started on this im still furious about that matter a few months ago when the head teacher made a child leave the dinner hall because his mum put a chocolate bar in his pack up and apparently it wasnt part of the schools healthy diet regime, that poor child had to eat alone!
Kim said:
Kim I see your point of view as I have 4 stepchildren that were abandoned by their mother when the youngest one was just a month old. They were raised solely by their father untill I became "Mum" three years ago. The youngest is now 16 and does call me Mum but my eldest is 21 just a few years younger than me and she'll buy me a birthday card that says "your like a mum to me" on the front and I do get mothers day cards from her but were more just mates than mother/daughter type thing - anyway I'm digressing....regarding the card thing although I know they didn't have a Mum during the making cards in class phase of their schooling they did have close aunts and so forth. Clinton Cards (and other large card stores on the high street) now make cards that say "Happy Mothers Day To My Nan" or "Happy Mothers Day Aunt" or sister, even the blooming dog can have a mothers day card (being serious, cats too!!) so although my step-children have NEVER had a mother to send mothers day cards too I'm sure kids can also join in an age old tradition (world wide tradition although some countries celebrate on different dates) but generally speaking they have a nan, aunt, older sister or someone they could make one for. All it would take is a little ounce of tact and care from the teacher to realise "ok this child doesn't have a loving mother but it's ok to apprecaite your nan or auntie for doing a great job with helping you grow up this year" type thing. It's teachers like the article mentioned that are obviously in teaching for the holiday allowances rather than the care and love for the children they care for every day.
I hope that doesn't sound like I'm having a go, promise I'm not, my step-kids are in that "no mother" category but I still think banning age old traditions for the one or two it doesn't apply to seems, to me, utter crap.
Nicola said:
The very fact that they are trying to protect the feelings of the little ones that don't have a mother in their lives proves that they are caring and loving towards children, I think the money comment is uncalled for.
I can understand both points of view on this argument, it is sad that the children with mothers miss out on making cards (although, I am sure they will make them at home) and I agree that the teachers could make the lesson into a "to someone special" lesson. I think one thing we have to remember is that although the children will be upset they didn't get to make a card for their mums, they will get over it. You don't get over not having a Mum that easily.
Two years ago I was in class and the children had golden time which is half an hour on a friday where the childre can play or draw or whatever, one child was sitting making a mothers day card although her mother had died two years previously, one of the children turned around and said "Why are you bothering you don't have a mother" I had to pick up the pieces of that comment and I can tell you, it is not easy.
I do not want to start an argument, but these things need to be thought of and remembered, instead of resorting to the old "money and holidays" argument.
