It’s important, as well, to give a gift to a child as the child actually is, and not to the child you were at their age. Me? I wanted only books and silence. Please do not give a thinly disguised directive in the guise of a gift, whether that be “this will be the doll that finally makes your daughter interested in maternal things, in which she has never shown the slightest interest” or “this Beet-of-the-Month Club subscription will surely take a few pounds off my nephew.
” When you receive a wonderful gift in adult life, it is rarely precious to you because someone dropped some serious change on aWhen giving gifts to other people’s children, the difficulty is that we do not, necessarily, have intimate knowledge of that child. You have to pick up the phone and ask the parent what the child likes and hates. This may result in an emailed list of options, which could be just what you wanted.