Comments on: Contest!!

By: amy jo

amy jo — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:58:03 +0000

im really bummed i missed the deadline on this. i wanna know how you feel about summer camps :)

especially ones with stubby tailed goldens-friendly cabins!

By: Hazel M. Wheeler

Hazel M. Wheeler — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:47:59 +0000

Back to Suzanne: I'm with you on the stick figure thing, but for a different reason. It's that feeling I get when I see twelve people in that stick line. Somebody, please stop these people from having more "stickers". It's almost like they're bragging. :)

I love the mental image of "scraping off the baby". And I worked for a Hallmark store for 4 months right after graduating....shudder.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:41:44 +0000

Would I call the church? You better believe your chocolate bunnies I would. I'll even do it for you! Don't let it go. It's bothering you. Take care of it or it will continue to bother you. If you're worried about not being PC, write down what you want to say so you have direction before you make the call. You can do it. HUGE HIGH 5!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:25:40 +0000

Robyn,

That is a great idea and we do something simalar to that now at home. We difinitely will not be doing the egg drop thing again, I guess I was wondering more how you would handle the situation though I was actually there (which was probably a good thing). I don't take kindly to partents pushing their weight around. Would you call the church or just let it go? I think the way it was handled should be addressed but I sort of need a PC way to do it (which when it comes to my grandkids I am not usually lol).

By: Robyn

Robyn — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:59:44 +0000

Dear egg drop-
You should covert to Jewdaism. We need some more people on our team and we'd be happy to take you and your family. We hide matzoh and eat eggs. There is a bit of trampling but there is usually at least one doctor at every seder because most of our families have one. If you'd prefer to stick with the egg hunt, I have to say that I would probably avoid that one in the future. That is total chaos, and it's unfair to the kids when the parents are "helping." Here's my advice and you will probably hate it which is why I never comment on the comments, but here it is:
I would host an egg hunt at your house next year and each kid will get a set number of eggs. You can do this by putting their initial on their eggs or doing it by color, something like that. If a kid sees one that is not theirs, it has to be put back for the real owner to find. That way everyone has fun, everyone gets eggs (the same amount), no one gets hurt and everyone is happy. What do you think? Not bad for a Jewish girl, right?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:58:50 +0000

Ok, I would like to know how you would have handled this situation.

Last saturday, we took our children ( grandchildren) to an egg drop in Hartland. They had sections for different ages: 1-2 , 3-5, 6-8- 9-12. Our children are 16 months, 3 and 7. Our 7 yr old got 2 eggs because he took off running. We had to take our 3 yr old out of the mix before the parents trampled him and our 16 month old didn't even to get play because their was noone to go with him ( not that it would have mattered) because the parents in ALL the groups were picking up the eggs for their children instead of guiding them to them. I wanted to say something to the people in charge but they took off after the 30,000 eggs were dropped. Just curious how you would handle this? I am sending you this Anonymously there was no where to leave my name.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:51:52 +0000

OOOOO Hazel, I like that one… I got all kinds of stares when asked what kind of birthday party I was planning for my 2 year old. Uhhh, well, grandmommy came over for dinner, does that count? No party! I am a pooper! I will do the party thing when Abby is old enough to even get what it is.

By: Hazel M. Wheeler

Hazel M. Wheeler — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:05:27 +0000

Hi Robyn,

Great idea, contest.

So, here's my hot topic du jour--Young Children's Birthday Parties: Why oh Why? Do we really have to submit ourselves to the horror?
Is it worth our children having huge meltdowns an hour after the sugar is ingested? Is it worth my sanity? Is it okay to be the mom who says "um, no thanks" without being perceived as a total party pooper?

By: JMM

JMM — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:48:13 +0000

So, I like this for a topic, it's been re-posted all over FB this week and well, I think it makes perfectly good sense...

How do you expect kids to listen to their parents? Tarzan lives half naked in the woods, Cinderella comes back home at midnight, Pinocchio lies all the time, Aladdin is the king of thieves, Batman drives at 200 mph, Sleeping beauty is lazy, and Snow white lives with 7 guys.. We shouldn’t be surprised when kids misbehave! They get it from their story books.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:18:17 +0000

I think you should do a post on those stupid little stick figure stickers that people put on the back of their minivans that represent their family. 1st of all they are ugly, 2nd of all they are WAY overdone. 3rd of all, what do you do if kitty or doggie dies or runs away. Do you take a razor and scrap their sticker-likeness off your car? Or what about when the baby is no longer a baby. Do you scrape off the baby and replace it with a sticker of a child?

Yes, I'm a hater, at least when it comes to stick figure stickers. I also hate precious moments figurines and halmark anything.