Do your little kids have crushes on other little kids? I'm speaking of my innocent little angel kindergartner girl here. She loves this boy in her class and talks about him all the time. "He's so handsome, I can't help it..." and stuff like that. Then yesterday she brings home this stash of stuff in a white envelope - a Hannah Montana ad from a mailer (she says she loves HM, but she's never seen the tv show or anything - she's "pretty" and "glittery") and a hand-drawn picture with my girl (in a ponytail even) with this boy... we'll call him Leonard... standing together holding hands under the sun, an old little lightbulb and a jack. Leonard, btw, is not the handsome one she goes off on.
Should I keep all this stuff? I mean, what if they end up getting married? You'd definitely want to have it, cuz it's so dang cute.
Do you people keep all the love notes, etc. that your kids bring home from school?
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My daughter is always in love with one of her classmates or another. Depending on who's doing what the other wants, she's going to marry boys we'll call "Marty," "Kyle," or "Lucius."
My four year old son has told everyone he is marrying a little girl from the ward and she is fully on board. If you ask either who they are going to marry they name the other one. My son was asked by another little girl in the ward to marry her and he said no way, not no how, never and she was so upset she started crying so we had to promise our second son who is about 7 months old to her when they grew up because she was so distraught. I remember having crushes when I was young too so I don't poo poo it but it is funny to see it.
My son's rational for wanting to marry the girl from the ward? She has blond hair and he wants blond haired kids. My son has dirty blond hair but this girl's hair is almost white and somehow he figured out that they would have blond kids.
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Jason (Formerly salesortonscom)
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I think it's important for children to learn young to distinguish who is cute and who is not, so that they're enslaved by their eyes and never learn to discern with their hearts. So make sure the children are inundated with Barbie, Hannah Montana, and other genetic misfits who have perfect bodies thanks to the wonders of modern medicine, and then have them think that it's important to pair off as young as possible as boyfriend and girlfriend. Make sure there are plenty of posters, make music titillating, though innocent at first... make it all cutesy... little tanktops and really short shorts on small children, especially girls is so cute... Teach the children all about working hard to create and maintain a body image that is genetically impossible as they age and experience the power of pimples.
Oh wait... no... that's what Satan thinks...
--Ray
-- Edited by rayb at 13:17, 2008-02-01
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I remember my kindergarten crush. His name was Troy. Sadly, he moved before first grade. Imagine my surprise to find him again in jr. high! I can't believe I remembered him that long, but I did. He was still cute, too. He never gave me the time of day, though. I was crushed. Is that why they call them crushes?
Our 5 year old announced last summer that he was going to marry Sis. So-in-so (former Relief Society President) when he grew up. Seems his criteria for a wife included: 1. will play star wars / light sabers with him when he is at her house; and 2. is fun. Fact she is old enough to be his grandmother and is already married with two adult children and another child his oldest sister's age is irrelevant. Anyway, we and Sis. So-in-so got a real kick out of that, and she told her husband that if things didn't work out long term with him, she had a contingency plan in place with our beserker warrier son!
Quite the charmer, my young son... takes after his old man. I had a number of girls who had kindergarten crushs on me at his age too. One even walked me home from school one day and had a "heart to heart" with my mom about her just wanting to make sure her boyfriend got home safely. Me? I was too oblivious at that age to notice girls as anything other than someone to play with who was not a boy. I liked my kindergarten teacher.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
Yea as far as my son is concerned, being married means your best female buddy doesn't have to go home after playing at your house. It's hard to argue with the logic of a four or five year old.
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Jason (Formerly salesortonscom)
As I walk through this earth, nothing can stop, the Duke of Mirth!
