dd's christmas list.shes 10 not 14!!

[cheesesarnie]

dd has written a christmas wish list.
she would like an i phone and uggs.shes 10!!!!am i babying her by thinking shes too young for all these things!
she also put biker boots and a kind of flying jacket shes seen.
why cant she want crayons

[tummytickler]

She is too young for these things! Definately!
I would maybe get the Uggs, but no way an i phone!

[cheesesarnie]

the uggs will be a copy if she does get them.i dont even have an i phone!i dont want her to have any phone.so shes not getting them.why oh why has she suddenly grown up!

[TheBolter]

Oh don;t worry... dd1, who's six says she would like a MP3 player, an Ipod or a mobile phone. It's only because I have these things and she loves fiddly gadgety things that she's asking for them.

Other than that she's still perfectly innocent (I hope ) ..

[pippoltergeist]

My DD is 6 and wants an iPhone for Christmas. I'm blaming her auntie.
She won't be getting one of course.

She does love the Sainsbury's cheapy Ugg-style boots that I got her last Xmas, though.

Perhaps they should get together to plan their Xmas lists?

[TheBolter]

And btw there is no way she's having any of those things for YEARS - and she knows this!

[cheesesarnie]

maybe they should pip!

[madwomanintheattic]

my 6yo wanted a laptop last year.

dd1 is 10 though - she wants a camera. might go with that as a halfway house...

[pippoltergeist]

Oh, and apparently DD asked her granny for one of those giant, moving toy ponies (the type you can sit on) for her birthday next month. Didn't bother mentioning it to me as she knows what I would say .

[Faaamily]

Uggs. You'd buy a 10 yr old £150 shoes.

Pah. NO.

[SE13Mummy]

Of course you should give your small children an iphone...this one!.

I've bought one for my gadget-obsessed nephew as his Christmas present.

[ElizabethWakefield]

Has she been talking to my 10 year old?

She has given us a choice of a present for her (she is very kind!) so either, a laptop, an ipod touch (but the new one with face time...I didn't even know what this was and had to look it up!!!!), an iphone, or the biggest TV I could manage!

Her dad (xp) did suggest we could split the cost between us and get her an Ipad....I told him to stop being ridiculous, but it is obviously him she gets her ideas from!

[pippoltergeist]

SE13, I will order one at once.

[cheesesarnie]

no im not buying uggs!i'll buy cheap imitations if anything!

[lilolilmanchester]

Whenever mine have asked for something like this which they're definitely not going to get, I make sure they know well before Christmas, and understand why, to avoid tears on Christmas Day. (BTW I think 14 is too young for £100 boots and such an expensive phone, never mind 10!)

[tegan]

dd1 is 12 and has all the tecky stuff (phone, laptop, ipod touch, camera, flip cam and 2 pairs of uggs) so she wants for nothing. This year we are giving her some little bits, itunes vouchers, clothes from blue banana and £100 cash.

It's a compromise

[madwomanintheattic]

i'm quite tempted to buy dd1 uggs actually - at 10 she's just grown into the same shoe size as me - and she'll grow out of them by easter... is that wrong?

although i really fancy some of the geox boots - do you think it would be really obvious to buy her the ones i like and commiserate hugely when she growns out of them?

[tegan]

my d1 is 12 and we have been the same shoe size for just over a year so i never buy shoes. She buys what she likes and i wear when she is at school.

But i haven't worn her uggs as they mould very quickly to your foot shape and also to the way you walk

[MadAboutQuavers]

Don't buy her any uggs or ugg type boots! Far too chavvy

Biker boots or Geox boots definitely

I remember getting a record player for my 10th Christmas - equivalent of an ipod touch perhaps? That memory has just made me feel very old

[foxinsocks]

My 10 yr old wants doc martens!

She is also virtually the same shoe size as me but thank goodness I am very unfashionable so cant see her stealing my shoes!

[foxinsocks]

Loads of her friends want uggs

I remember reading the newsletter from the local secondary school during the snowy time last year and the headteacher had written that tw children should wear sensible footwear and clothes during the heavy snow (ie they were allowed to wear non school shoes).

His next newsletter had started with 'by sensible shoes for snow I did not mean uggs!'

[CherryMonstersUnderTheBed]

ds2 (9) wants a phone. he doesnt care what type of phone, just a phone. ds1 who is 11 got one for his birthday in march, notihng fancy, just a £25 samsung one from tesco. and now ds2 wants one. i had a very good deal with my phone company (am on contract) that when i upgraded my contract phone, they gave me two free handsets. i am giving the cheap alcatel one to ds2 for christmas (worth all of £15 or so) and the more expensive one was for my bloke, but we have split up so he isnt getting it. i now have a £70 phone sat in a cupboard

[Plonkargghhh]

Dd1 is also 10, almost 11 and has a list scarily similar to your dd, although thankfully a little cheaper.

Some of the stuff I've told her that she hasn't got a cat in hells chance, and other things I will get her. Iphone, for example, not a bloody chance - Ipod, ok.

I'm loving the idea of buying shoes and then wearing them yourself ...if only my dd had bigger feet ...

[Manda25]

My 8 yr old put on his list:

An iPad (for my mum)


Bless him.

[NorbertDentressangle]

10yo DDs birthday and Xmas list was quite funny in that it had the "not a cat in hells chance" items (lap-top, TV for bedroom etc) alongside cheap stuff like squirty soap in a can (around 99p from Savers).

As a sort of compromise her main present will be a phone but not an expensive one (prob less than £30). She'll need it for starting big school next year so she may as well have it ready

[cheesesarnie]

im still saying no.thinking of going for the biker boots or maybe gumbies.still no to any kind of phone!
my dsis suggested ipod touch but theyre still so much money!