# Doper parents: do you get your kids Valentine's gifts?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-do-you-get-your-kids-valentines-gifts/570821>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 9, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-do-you-get-your-kids-valentines-gifts/570821 "2011-02-09T23:22:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-do-you-get-your-kids-valentines-gifts/570821/41 "2011-02-10T20:40:57Z")

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My parents always got me something for Valentine’s Day. My dad even occasionally still buys me a rose on not-Valentine’s Day. From the gas station, while he’s out buying beer, but whatever.

My mom already has 2 gifts bought for my 1-year-old niece for Valentine’s Day.

I buy something for my friend’s kid on V-Day every year, because I figure she gets a ton of gifts on her birthday and Christmas and she’s too young to appreciate them all anyway, so I don’t even bother then.

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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-do-you-get-your-kids-valentines-gifts/570821/42 "2011-02-10T20:55:32Z")

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> [@kushiel](#):
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> My first year away from home my parents came to visit a couple of weeks before Valentine’s Day. On Valentine’s Day my mom emailed me asking if I’ve checked in the cabinet of the side table lately. I hadn’t, as I just stored old gaming stuff in there, so I opened it up and there was a bag of Valentine’s treats in there. She had planted it when they visited earlier! She knew I wouldn’t look in there unless prompted to.

That’s very cool! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-do-you-get-your-kids-valentines-gifts/570821/43 "2011-02-10T22:40:28Z")

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I don’t have kids, but I’ve been one; my mom used to always get us candy/stuffed animals for Valentine’s Day.

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**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-do-you-get-your-kids-valentines-gifts/570821/44 "2011-02-10T22:48:36Z")

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> [@norinew](#):
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> That’s very cool! 🙂

My Mommy is the bestest. I forgot some of my Christmas presents back at their place, so she mailed them to me. At the time I had a bad case of bronchitis, so she included some chocolates and a cute get well soon card!

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