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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The Rules About Valentine's Day: Follow-up

I realized that in all the excitment of going to the wrong house for a playdate and hanging out in a complete stranger's living room (much to her surprise), I never followed up on my older son's (OS) valentines. All of the kids decorated brown lunch bags at preschool and then exchanged valentines. Feeling pretty good that I had followed the directions and thus minimized the chance of majorly screwing up and subjecting OS to years of therapy, I dumped OS's valentines on the table so that we could go through them together.

The first one he opened up was exactly like the ones we...I mean he...had sent out: Cars valentine with tattoo. To: (blank) From: Johnny. Then we opened up the next one. To: My Acme Preschool Valentine From: Your friend Jane. What was this?? Nowhere in the instructions did it say anything about cutesy messages. All it said was not to address valentines to specific children and to write your child's name on them. When my younger son (YS) is in preschool, I will know to put cutesy messages on his valentines. How would Jane (or more likely her parents) have known that there was a loophole in the instructions? I thought about it and came to the logical conclusion: Jane was a second born. (Either that or her parents had major connections.) Either way, someone had clearly given their family advance information. And had also given advance information to a few other special folk as well.

As we continued reading the valentines, we (I should really say I because OS was way more interested in consuming the lollipop his teacher had given him to eat at home)opened up the motherload of valentines. It initially seemed just like Jane's. To: My Acme Preschool Special Friend From: Your Friend Matthew. Then I turned over the card. It was attached to an envelope with a few pieces of candy in it! The instructions really said absolutely nothing about candy! Poor OS did not give anyone candy. How was I supposed to know to do that? I will know when YS goes to preschool to include candy. Are all older children known by their peers for failing to personalize valentines or give kids candy? That's when I realized a lesson I had first learned when I was a little girl with a younger brother.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Older children are screwed

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 6:19 PM   1 comments
1 Comments:

  • At 2/21/2007 7:47 AM, Anonymous happy and blue 2 said…

    Older children are screwed is a true statement, ha,ha..
    And all children with parents who follow the rules are screwed too apparently, ha,ha..

     
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