Passing presents?

[heartsy77]

My Parents always gave us passing presents at the end of the school year. I do the same but my DD's (14 )grades are particularly great this year ( 100 in Science, 98 in German etc.) She has really worked hard and I want to reward her. My problem is I have no ideas! She is my easy kid; she doesn't have any idea what she wants either.

Now if we were talking about my 17 year old she would have a list a mile long!
However since she is failing gym, yes gym!,she will not get a passing present this year!


Ideas? She likes her nails done w/ acrylic but she breaks them easily in softball so I don't think it would be worth it!

 

[wishesuponastar]

Congrats to your daughter on a job well done this year! If she doesn't have a charm bracelet, maybe you could take her to Brighton and start one?

If I think of anything else, I'll be back.

 

[scrapquitler]

My Parents always gave us passing presents at the end of the school year. I do the same but my DD's (14 )grades are particularly great this year ( 100 in Science, 98 in German etc.) She has really worked hard and I want to reward her. My problem is I have no ideas! She is my easy kid; she doesn't have any idea what she wants either.

Now if we were talking about my 17 year old she would have a list a mile long!
However since she is failing gym, yes gym!,she will not get a passing present this year!

Ideas? She likes her nails done w/ acrylic but she breaks them easily in softball so I don't think it would be worth it!

We just go out for ice cream immediately after school on the last day. It's what we did when I was a child and what we have done with our kids.

 

[marcyinPA]

I never got anything for passing grades or moving to the next grade as a kid. With my own kids, I took them out for lunch on the last day of school. Sometimes we went with other friends, and sometimes alone. This year, I have one graduating from high school and one leaving middle school. We have actually had lunch out a lot lately- when I picked him up after finals, when we went to get a last ditch effort of senior pictures taken, etc.

We also got him a laptop as a graduation gift. But, the 8th grade will just get lunch after school on Wednesday.

I always wanted them to just be proud of their efforts. No rewards necessary. The good grades are the rewards for hard work.

 

[Bren's Mom]

Pick out a summer outfit at a day at the mall or outlet mall or whatnot with mom?

Day out with a friend at the amusement park?

Tickets to some sort of concert/show she'd love to see?

Visit to the spa?

Night away at a hotel with mom and/or friend? (I just took my niece celebrating her 10th bday overnight, just us, and it was AWESOME. We had such a great time! Dinner at Melting Pot, shopping at B&N and the mall, and swimming in the pool.)

 

[diznygirl]

We just go out for ice cream immediately after school on the last day. It's what we did when I was a child and what we have done with our kids.

That's what we do. I think ice cream or frozen yogurt is good for all ages!

 

[4nana]

Congrats to your DD and hope you find the special gift you're looking for . Our kids were in school many moons ago, but end of year celebration was usually a special dinner and out cream outing . Still do the same for the grands now and they love it . The gift-celebration milestones for 5th, 8th and 12th graduation are a different story!

 

[luvsJack]

I think a charm would be nice.

My kids always had so much going on in the summer, that the cost of THAT was their "passing present" (except 8th grade graduation and then hs graduation).

Baseball camps, space camp, beach trips, etc.

DD will go on a youth trip and a trip to Destin and then next week I have the week off so we will go get nails done and take a day trip to the beach and do some shopping. I guess all of that could be considered a "passing present".

Maybe she would like a girl's day with mom? Hair, nails and shopping!

 

[heartsy77]

She did just find her Chamila bracelet again and it is a little snug so maybe a new bracelet and charm? I don't know why I never think of these things!

 

[Disneybuckeye]

Congrats on your daughter for a great year!

A passing present would never have entered my mind as I truly expected them all to pass A charm does sound nice though.

We just always ran straight to the pool as soon as school was out. Not having to do homework for a few months was all the present we needed.

 

[AndreaDM]

I agree, passing is expected here, no presents. However, we always go out for ice cream on the last day.

 

[Poohforyou]

A gift for passing? That's a very low bar if all that's expected is a passing grade. In our family doing well in school is a given just like DH and I going to work and doing our jobs.

We've always celebrated the last day of school by doing something fun but there isn't a gift. DD will be moving up to high school in September so there is a special ceremony this year. We may get her a little piece of jewelry to commemorate it but it isn't tied to her grades in any way.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

You know, if you think about this in reference to the push presents thread, maybe these should be gifts that are given after passing a kidney stone...

 

[pixiewings71]

We don't give gifts for good grades, but when DD16 graduated from 8th grade (she was 13) we bought her a new iTouch.

 

[tcufrog]

My kindergartner's behavior improved a lot over the school year so I took him for frozen yogurt and let him download a new ipad app.

 

[Southernmiss]

No passing presents or graduation gifts for kindergarten or eighth grade here. It's expected that they do their best just as dh and I try to at our jobs.

 

[Hedy]

My Parents always gave us passing presents at the end of the school year. I do the same but my DD's (14 )grades are particularly great this year ( 100 in Science, 98 in German etc.) She has really worked hard and I want to reward her. My problem is I have no ideas! She is my easy kid; she doesn't have any idea what she wants either.

Now if we were talking about my 17 year old she would have a list a mile long!
However since she is failing gym, yes gym!,she will not get a passing present this year!


Ideas? She likes her nails done w/ acrylic but she breaks them easily in softball so I don't think it would be worth it!

iPod? Would gel polish/shellac work? Kinda not exciting, but some money so she can go to the mall/movies w/friends over the summer.

 

[Nancyg56]

My kids got ice cream at teh end of the year. Now that we have a DGD, DH takes her out to dinner, her choice. This year he gave her time to think about it, offered her anywhere she wanted, and choked when she said "Ohana Even he knows where that restaurant is She loves the arcade at the casino, and so he is taking her to dinner there and then to the arcade. We get to go too