If you were offered to become a godmother for a child, then you need to properly prepare. At the christening, you can buy a rifle (such a fabric, which wraps the child after the font), a cap with lace, a baptismal shirt, a blanket. As a rule, the purchase of a cross and the payment of expenses are borne by the godfather's shoulders, but this can also be done by the godfather. For example, according to some customs the godmother can make a gift to the baby for the first tooth. It can be clothes or a toy. Gifts of the godmother should not be scarce, but in value should be higher than the gifts of parents. This relates to such an event as the wedding of the godson.
Tips for giving a godson
- It's good, when the godmother takes part in all the events of the godson, even if not by personal presence, gifts and attention. For baptism, traditional gifts from the cross - baptismal clothing and a cross. But if the mother of the baby bought everything necessary for Baptism, then you can choose gifts for Christening, taking into account the wishes of the parents of the baby, for any purse and taste.
- On the Christening the newborn or baby up to 3 months you can give a children's album or photo frame. If the godson's teeth are chopped, then a box for the first tooth or a silver spoon will do. In the year of the godson, you can give a casket for the first curl, so that the mother for the baby retains the first cut hair strand.
- A serious gift from the godparents will be a set of children's silverware or in the form of individual items. Do not forget to make an engraving of the name of a goddaughter or godson - always a nice gift.
- At the Christening in the traditions of Orthodoxy they give an icon, and already a grown godson will receive a good gift with a children's Bible with pictures. A solid and expensive gift for Christening will be a gift edition of the Bible in leather binding or a nominal icon in a silver setting.
- Always a timely gift to the goddaughter is a bracelet or children's earrings, and a godson can choose a souvenir of silver or a chain for a cross.
- Most of the children are baptized at the age of 1 year, at Baptism a good gift will be a tricycle or a walker. With their help, the child will learn how to walk, such a congratulation to the child will benefit.
- At the Epiphany, you can give children's books with many pictures. The child will look at them with interest and he will remember this gift for a long time.
- To facilitate the monetary costs of parents, gifts for Epiphany should be chosen such: you can buy clothes for the child. The boy can pick up panties, and the girl - a beautiful dress. Parents will like such gifts as diapers, a set of bathing accessories, and ryoshonki.
- Most often, guests on christenings simply give money. On the one hand, this spoils the solemn moment, violates customs, but on the other hand it is quite practical. Parents will be able to buy the child the right things that can not roll around the clock.
- It would be by the way to give the child a baptism of "incense" - a protective little image of the Guardian Angel around his neck, for the apartment, and the icon of his Guardian Angel. In the old days, a spiritual gift for the child was a measured icon, his patroness. This icon was written in the growth of the child on a special board, which was placed near the child's bed so that he could spiritually communicate with his Patron.
The godmother, at least occasionally, must visit her godson, remember him, give toys, take an active part in his life, take care of him. This is the custom and sacred duty of the godmother. But only a few do this duty, most ignore it, consider it an empty formality, which is deeply mistaken, because an honest person will not allow oblivion and negligence of one's duties in this sanctified, important religious affair.