Recent Valentine's Day trends in schools have shifted towards extravagant gift exchanges, causing confusion and frustration among parents. Instead of simple class valentines, children are coming home with goodie bags filled with toys and treats. Parents like Jaqueline Dowling and Crystal Ransons express their disbelief at the amount of gifts their children receive, noting the impracticality and waste, as much of it ends up discarded. Some parents, like Ransons, have chosen to forgo sending goodie bags altogether, relying on their children's preferences instead.
"I was shook," Jaqueline Dowling of Greenville, South Carolina, tells TODAY.com. Last Valentine's Day, her then-3-year-old son Max brought home a giant haul that included Play-doh, a monster truck and a customized puzzle.
"He comes back with his bag full of goody bags like he just went to 30 parties," she tells TODAY.com.
"Half the stuff ends up in the garbage or my dog chews it up," she adds.
"If they want to do the bags, I'll do them. But he has not once said that he wants to do them."
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