Holiday gifts

[Momof4]

One of my friends is expecting to get a weeks pay plus a gift from each of her daycare kid families, is this normal??

Thank you for the 5 minute laugh I just had! Sorry, but I don't have rich families at my daycare and that's completely out of the question for me. I'm lucky and very grateful if I receive a $25 or $50 gift card from one or two of my families and smaller things from the rest. That's been the norm for me. I have two dcDads out of work right now so I'm not expecting much from them understandably.

Seriously, how can you EXPECT a gift? That's supposed to be thoughtful and from the heart and depends on how the family feels and what they can afford.

[daycaremom9]

The only thing that I expect is a thank-you from the parents for presents that I send home for them and the children, which more often than not I don't get.