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INT. DAY
Crooked Crown Princess #1 (age 9) flops down on the couch with iTouch in hand.
HUUUUUUUGE sigh, then...
CCP#1
I was right. There is no Club Penguin App.
(sighs again). It HAS to be played on a
computer.
ME
Are you sure you can't play on the iPod?
CCP#1
Nope. (with attitude) I guess I'll have to
wait until I get a laptop. Whenever that is.
Wow...someone has passive aggressive down pat! CCP#1 then proceeds with attitude problem and picks fight with the other little person, CCP#2 (age 7).
Mom thinks to herself, did I not just escape to the living room with my laptop and my coffee and now my creative thinking time has been hijacked by Veruca Salt and her spit fire of a sister?
ME
Maybe the REAL problem is not your
great misfortune in not having your laptop.
Maybe it is that you and all
your friends are just spoiled and don't even realize
how much you already have and all you can do
is focus on what you don't have!
MR. CROOKED CROWN
(piping in) Maybe the answer is we get nothing
for Christmas!
Standard parent response. God Bless him and his support but like THAT is going to happen.
FADE OUT.
END SCENE.
So sorry to my friends and their kids who I just threw under the bus - I was trying to make my point. So sorry to my children, who are not being taught valuable lessons by their parents by NOT getting just about everything they want. In fairness to them, we do not have a money tree in our yard so they do have to wait often and they do hear the word NO, but maybe not nearly enough.
1ST World Problems. Don't you just hate it when you are 9 years old and your mean mom won't buy you your own laptop?
It is interesting because I have the same problem with my 10 year old. She really wants an iPad for Christmas. We posed to her the thought of maybe a family iPad that we can all share (since we are on a very fixed income, like the rest of everyone in the country). She thought for a moment, and responded, "Hmm, yeah, but I still want one (for myself)." She then proceeded to say that Santa Claus can make all the expensive things she wants and she will ask us for the lower cost items. Sweet, however, obviously not realistic.
ReplyDeleteI agree that too many young kids have too many adult things. We made our oldest work for her things and that has worked out well. At 17, she has a job and saved enough money to purchase a car (with some matched funds as an incentive). She pays for her own gas, her own fun and her car insurance. She is now realizing that money doesn't grow on the fabulous money tree, but indeed burns faster than you can hold on to it.
It takes some willpower on our part, doesn't it?
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