Do you give your kids presents on Valentine's Day? If so, what do you give? I always have a nice card for my kids and want to do a bit more this year. I'm leaning toward candy or a treat of some kind, but would love to hear what others do. My kids are 6 and 3.
Yes. Candy and a card. Maybe a stuffed musical animal. My kids are 2.5 and 4.5 y/o, so they’re easy to please. I just love another excuse to say, “I love you.”
Candy Every Year
Different things depending on what I see.
Book
Video
A cute top
Socks
Kite
Puzzle
Hat
Birthday presents for my little Valentino!
I do like to pick them up something cute. I don’t get cards though. Really depends on what I see. I’ve gotten them little stuffed animals or a pin from Disney for their collections or a little toy. Don’t usually get them candy but we often end up buying a candy treat for the family at some point.
My adult son lives in a different city than I. If I go home to the city weeks after St. Valentine’s Day, then I will take something that I got 5o percent off at Walgreens as I’m a day after a candy holiday person. I’m a candy-Holic so I’m always there the day after Christmas, Vakentines, Halloween, Easter… To get half off candies.
Yep. They each get a card, a small thing of candy, and sometimes something else as well. This year I hope to give them books. Or iTunes cards.
Added: We have always done this as a family as well, not celebrated my husband and I. Sometimes I get flower, sometimes I don’t, but I prefer them on a random day of the year anyways. We normally do a fun activity with the kids and a nice dinner. But we still get them something small in addition to that.
My kids bring home a ton of cards and candy from school.
I admit, I don’t give a Valentine’s present to them, but if I did, it wouldn’t be more cards and candy. I would want to think of something different.
For us presents are for birthdays and Christmas.
We don’t do them for any other holidays although if he brings home great grades all year we might get our son a little something when the school year ends.
We try to minimize the sugar laden holidays as much as possible although we don’t turn away any candy Grandma might send.
Between Halloween, Christmas, Valentines and Easter it seems like there’s a major sugar fest every few months.
It gets excessive.
It’s amazing we all don’t end up diabetic from it all.
I would give them a “coupon” for a special “trip” to the zoo, children’s museum etc. I’m all about “experiences” because in the end, that’s what they’ll remember.
I always give my kids some kind of cute animal and a little candy. We go out for lunch and have a fun day together 
I don’t give gifts to my kids. I do cook a special dinner and make a nice dessert. They bring home tons of candy and cards from school on Valentines Day, plus I have to supply the cards and candy they are giving to their friends and bake something for the class party.
Last year I got them snugly blanket throws for their bed and those fuzzy pillows that are shaped for sitting in bed reading to coordinate. I put a cute card on their pillows so they’d see them for sure.
When my son was little, I gave him whatever seemed appropriate at the times, a book, map, or whatever was is interest at the time..
now, 12, he is getting a travel backpack of his for Summer vacation travels. but no candy… and maybe a nice dinner in or out..
we ll see..
i am really trying to stay away from heart candy and such. The card it nice. it the valentine nick backs are $10, I would rather buy a cute hair bow and bracelet for my daughter or a toy for my son that he will use throughout the year. My kids are 4 and 7
I happen to have ‘left over’ Christmas presents, so I might use them for this. The reason why they are left over is because I thought they got more than enough and figured the toys could be enjoyed more at a later date.
My husband always gives our daughter flowers and a box of candy. He has done this since she was a baby and continues to do it now… she is 19.
He keeps it simple so he does not “outshine” a boyfriend if she has one at the time.
I’m thinking that maybe ‘love’ might mean buying a simple snap-together model to sit down and do with his Dad or myself. He’s almost 7, he’s going to come home with a bag of candy from the Valentine exchange at school. I often make him a card myself (I like to do little watercolor things like that) and I think a non-candy item to do together would be fun.
I struggle with this.
My husband and I don’t celebrate V-day. We are extremely happily married, are very affectionate, and buy each other gifts, but just don’t like the hype around V-day.
That being said, when the kids were little, we got them a little something so that they wouldn’t be the only ones at school with nothing from their parents. Now that they are older, they know how we feel about the “holiday.” For several years we’ve just given them a candy bar. We don’t keep sweets in the house, so it’s been a nice treat for them to have. Now our oldest son who is 16 has become a health nut, and doesn’t eat any candy or dessert of any kind. I’m not sure what to do. Maybe get our youngest son (who is 9) a candy bar, and our oldest a flavored water. I don’t know.
*I love Canuck’s idea of a special dinner. I think I’ll do that.
A nice valentines book for each. My mom sends them a T-shirt and MIL does the whole candy deal. My son is Gluten Free, chocolate free, Dye free. I try to keep candy down to a minimum.
I get them a little something. Last year I filled a small plastic cup with M & M’s and put a heart shaped sucker on a stick in it. I also made a card for each kid to put with it. In each card I told my DS how much he meant to me, how proud I was of him, etc. I think they liked the cards better than the candy. We don’t do much of anything else.