if your divorced are you expected to make sure you son/daughter has a gift for mom's day, father's day, everyones birthday, christmas and etcc.. if the other parent dosent want to buy them or tells the child that days not important to them (the other parent) and they dont want to celebraity it??

i try to keep up but its getting hard sometimes i dont till after the fact my daughter dad told her not to worry about a gift.

like christmas i took her shopping for my side of the family, we talked about it he was gonna take her shopping for his mom and his mom for him. i ended up taking her shopping after christmas to get them presents because he told it didnt matter. with moms day coming up, should i just get his mother a gift from our daughter ??

help plzzzzzzzzzz

How old is the child?

I was never married, but when it was Father's Day I got my boyfriend something and of course put it from the kids, they are to young to actually buy him a gift. But when Mother's Day came he didn't do A THING

shes 6

i dont think the gife thing is about money, we make most of our gifts but the christmas thing bugged me, he didnt want a gift for his bday (we made him a cake) but he didnt get his mom a gift on her bday either.

i reazile some people dont want to be reminded there getting old but at the same time its like hes tell her these things arent important enought to care about

sometimes u let th important little things in life slip out an away from ya,,,,,,,,,then out of th blue some one sends u a nice card,,,,,,,,,,,then u look back on a lot of love that you have missed out on

The six year old can make a card. If taking them to buy a small gift that they pick out, it does teach them giving.
It makes them feel important too.

Always I trained my boys to take the gift to their mother's. The mother took the gifts shamelessly and in return gave it to her own mother as presents. When the boys were 4 years old they shamed their mother by saying why do you take those to your mother they are for you.
You do the right thing continue to teach your kids the right thing

idk sent my mom a card and pack of flower seeds she complained about it.so no go on that idea

What's there to complain about?

i always buy a card and have the kid's sign it, i never get anything and thats fine, best present of all is when they are here on father's day, because i am a wonderful father.

apperently she didn't appreciate it.the nexy yr i sent a jr.cheesecake she liked that.this yr we are not speakin so she aint gettin chit

Yikes. I always appreciate any gesture of a gift. It's the thought that counts. I even taught my child that if they get a gift that they don't like or already have, they always say thank you because that person thought enough of them to give them a gift. This is your mom?

yep real lovin mom

My mother always made sure we had a gift or card or something to give my dad on father's day and something for my stepmother at the time on mother's day. To my stepmother, not because she a mother figure to my sister and I, but simply because she was a mother. My stepmother too, always made sure we had something to give my mother as well. My dad however, chose not to participate in the art of giving anything to my mother!

Nothing wrong with, if it's for the children's sake.

I'm so sorry.

its all good i don't let it affect me

Good. It really isn't about you. She'd be that way with any child. It's her problem.

i just dont want my daughter confussed, i try to make every holiday fun. i just feel bad getting someone a gift after there birthday or mothers day or what every holiday has already passed.

i think its ok if ya take ur kid out to buy the mom a gift it makes your kid feel good