Moms Love Shopping #2 - Shopping for the Teacher
August 31, 2007
Thanks for joining us for Part 2 of Back to School shopping!
This week Chele is joined by former teacher and school counselor Nicole Mc Collum, owner of Gurly Girl Dresses. Nicole offers lots of great tips and suggestions for buying gifts for the teacher, holiday gifts, and also gifts for birthday parties.
Don’t forget to enter the $100 Give Away at Mom’s Radio Network!!!
Special thanks for more great teacher gift suggestions from former teachers:
Evie Maddox of Eve’s Best
Amy of Snapshots to Memories
Shopping for the teacher:
Teacher Supplies
Books to add to the teacher’s classroom library
Inexpensive Toys and Games for rewarding children
Personalized note card stationery and note pads for teachers
Shopping for children’s birthday party gifts:
Find the perfect puzzle or game
Take a look in the World’s Biggest Toybox
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Chele, your show reminds me of just how expensive it is to send your child to public school!
Though I do think teacher gifts are in order in my case… as a homeschooling mom I am the ‘teacher’
I totally agree, Kelly. I read somewhere that once your child starts school and you don’t pay for childcare in order to go to work anymore, your expenses go down and your ability to earn goes up at the same time. Whoever wrote that must have been smoking wacky weed or never sent a child to school. Sometimes the amount of money spent when you add up supplies, school clothes, extra curricular activities and gear, fund raising AND lunches…. well the amount for one child is so obscene that paying daycare sounds like a great idea again!
On the other hand, if I home schooled my three boys, I know I’d be deserving of a teacher gift, too. I’ll see if I can get the gift fairy to make a stop in your neighborhood soon. =D
Great show! I’ve always wondered about gifts for teachers. And I never thought about how it must make the kids that don’t get invitations feel. I’m guilty of not giving one out to the whole class, I didn’t know it was ‘proper’ to do so. My son has a male teacher this year and I loved the beef jerky idea!
The show was awesome!!!!! My granddaughter started kindergarten this year and WOW, it seemed like they needed everything for school but the one good thing is that they wear uniforms.
As for the gifts for teachers, I sell Gourmet candles so thats not a problem. I even have a cool gift where I put a red votive and white votive bottom to bottom, wrap it with saran wrap put some cute bows on it and thats Teachers Tylenol. The teachers that I have given them too think its an awesome idea.
Keep up the great work.
Deanna
DeannasScentedCandles.com
Tisha, I agree on the beef jerky. In my mind when I think teacher, I always invision a woman. I’m glad Amy reminded us that men teach and gave the great tip for beef jerky as well! Deanna, that’s a really neat idea for Teacher’s Tylenol. How creative!
For the birthday party invites, we mail them to the kids she wants to invite from class. That was the rule in preK and we stick with that to avoid hurt feelings. My girls are pretty good about not talking about their party at school but we just can’t afford to invite everyone in the class.
My 5th grader has a male teacher for the first time. This year we’ve got 4 male teachers in the school which I think is pretty cool. Not sold on the beef jerky idea, tho…
I just now caught this show since I am a homeschooler (and yep I agree that I deserve a gift! LOL) and wow it is full of great ideas! I’m going to pass them along to my brothers.
And as for gifts at birthdays - or no gifts if that is what is requested - PLEASE everyone follow what the parents request! I attended a birthday party with a large number of people and the parents said no gifts please - and I was the only one who showed up with no gift.