I love a good list. If I pan to accomplish ANYTHING at all, there is usually a list involved in the process. The wedding and baby registries...best thing ever. Lists of driving directions. Super helpful. 5 year old's birthday registry enclosed with his birthday invitation. More offensive by the minute the more I think about it. Yes, we have officially been exposed to round one of one-upmanship and competition and we haven't even gotten out of the preschool parking lot. I have heard of people starting and adding to different collections for children at their birthdays(china patterns, savings bonds, etc.) and I definitely see the usefulness of these traditions, but this is a list of useless crap in a veiled attempt to rack up a nerf gun arsenal for assaults at playdates(and we all know I like my playdates with some Pinot, and not a sneak attack that results in the removal of a nerf dart from my face). The funny thing about this is that I should have seen this coming for MONTHS. No one can stand this kid because of the pair of obnoxious parents attached to his hips. You know the mom Im talking about...she has more of a reason than anyone else to be in the very front row of the audience to take pictures at the Christmas pageant and has to stand in the doorway and inhibit every other parent from picking up their own child while she talks to the teacher about jr's chances of getting into college and his freakish behavior because she embodies the term "helicopter mom". So now we have the invitation(and its not even a drop off party, so there's no way I can even sneak in a solo target trip or Starbucks run) and his list of requests that could possibly put him on the terrorist watch list if it fell into the wrong hands. Pray for snow, lots and lots of snow.
2.09.2010
But not unless it's on the list...
I love a good list. If I pan to accomplish ANYTHING at all, there is usually a list involved in the process. The wedding and baby registries...best thing ever. Lists of driving directions. Super helpful. 5 year old's birthday registry enclosed with his birthday invitation. More offensive by the minute the more I think about it. Yes, we have officially been exposed to round one of one-upmanship and competition and we haven't even gotten out of the preschool parking lot. I have heard of people starting and adding to different collections for children at their birthdays(china patterns, savings bonds, etc.) and I definitely see the usefulness of these traditions, but this is a list of useless crap in a veiled attempt to rack up a nerf gun arsenal for assaults at playdates(and we all know I like my playdates with some Pinot, and not a sneak attack that results in the removal of a nerf dart from my face). The funny thing about this is that I should have seen this coming for MONTHS. No one can stand this kid because of the pair of obnoxious parents attached to his hips. You know the mom Im talking about...she has more of a reason than anyone else to be in the very front row of the audience to take pictures at the Christmas pageant and has to stand in the doorway and inhibit every other parent from picking up their own child while she talks to the teacher about jr's chances of getting into college and his freakish behavior because she embodies the term "helicopter mom". So now we have the invitation(and its not even a drop off party, so there's no way I can even sneak in a solo target trip or Starbucks run) and his list of requests that could possibly put him on the terrorist watch list if it fell into the wrong hands. Pray for snow, lots and lots of snow.
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Ugh! Something I am not looking forward to. Christin's sister and all of her friends do a registry for their kids parties and whatever they don't get at the party, the mom buys after the party to make sure he gets everything off his list. It makes me vomit in my mouth to think these are the children of our future. Stand your ground and don't get anything off the registry!!!
ReplyDeleteARE YOU KIDDING ME??? I truly thought I had heard it ALL! Our helicopter mommy is unbearable....and I have to call her a friend. A list?? ridiculous. Explains all the high maintenance adults we deal with on a daily basis....this is how they start!
ReplyDeleteGreat Post!
A gift registry for a 5 yo?! That is ridiculous. Helicopter parents are the WORST! I am a teacher and I have seen a few in my day.
ReplyDeleteWhat the WHAT? I have heard it all now.
ReplyDeleteGross. Do you really have to go to the party? They sound terrible, the lot of them.
ReplyDeleteI had the "pleasure" of teaching those first-generation, um, "helicoptered" kids at the senior-high school level, and let me tell you: parents like that are doing their children no favors. It almost retards them, in all aspects of the word, and definitely disadvantages them as they move toward adulthood. It's really kind of a sad phenomena.
Please, please, PLEASE tell me you are joking. What the hell is that? I can only imagine what pretentious items are on that list - please share a few. This woman needs to be committed.
ReplyDeleteA gift registry for a 5 year old? Well, it's official--I have heard it ALL!!!
ReplyDeletethat is absolutely ridiculous!!!! i have never heard of such a thing, and can only hope we don't encounter a gift registry for a child's birthday anytime in our future! i really think i'd just keep my kids home and boycott a gift at all!
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