2nd Birthday Party Invite... You Forgot Bubblewrap and Purell...

[AKL_Megs]

Here is a PERFECT example of "Helicopter Parenting" and "Snowflakes"... thought of you all her the SECOND I opened this email...

This is an invite I just got to a family member's son's 2nd birthday...

"...I am buying _____ a big wooden "train table" that uses Thomas the Tank trains that have the magnet on the front and back (not the hook together ones)....one can never have too many train cars! (Except don't get him the "James" train car - he is a mean train).

"Remember that _____ does not watch tv, so he doesn't know any of the Sesame Street, Dora etc. characters. (_____ doesn't know the Thomas the Tank show either, but he just likes trains and I am getting the table from someone who is moving and can't take it with them) _____ also loves cardboard books and wood puzzles (make sure non-toxic)...no plastic toys please since so many plastic toys have been recalled or are on a "danger list". (We have researched The Thomas the Tank trains and they are on the "ok" plastic list)."

So, okay. I am limited to wood toys or Thomas trains ONLY. Why get the kid anything at all?

I wonder just how long they think they can shelter him from the world... and from plastics.

 

[Hedy]

Buy the Clifford's Manners Book.

 

[agnes!]

How does she know that James is the "Mean Train"? And how would the kid know that James is the "Mean Train"? Maybe James is just misunderstood...

Give the kid a plain wooden block wrapped in plain brown paper..


And then stand back and watch him bash someone's thumb with it .

agnes!

 

[momof1princess]

wow...just wow.

 

[*BTMRR*]

 

[jrmasm]

What a nutter.

 

[TeresaBelle]

How does she know that James is the "Mean Train"? And how would the kid know that James is the "Mean Train"? Maybe James is just misunderstood...

Give the kid a plain wooden block wrapped in plain brown paper..


And then stand back and watch him bash someone's thumb with it .

agnes!

 

[Tinkermommy]

Wow. I feel really sorry for that kid.

You may want to tell her that several years ago there was recall on the wooden Thomas the Tank toys. It's not the plastic, it's the paint that contains lead. So any painted toy could be a problem, not just the plastic ones!

And if they don't watch the show, how do they know that James is mean. He's got a smile on his face, so you wouldn't know by looking at him!

No Sesame Street? How is he gonna learn who the people in his neighborhood are?

I think I would buy him a plastic squirt gun!!

 

[ilovejack02]

Apparently she didn't do her research , Diesel is the real ******* of the group.

James is just a youngster trying to keep up with the big older trains.

Get it straight Mom!!

 

[jrmasm]

It doesn't say no pets.

 

[~disneydiva~]

No, buy him this.
Its wood.

 

[bntlyclg89]

Apparently she didn't do her research , Diesel is the real ******* of the group.

James is just a youngster trying to keep up with the big older trains.

Get it straight Mom!!

I know which one I'd be getting the little tyke....

 

[ilovejack02]

I know which one I'd be getting the little tyke....

 

[AKL_Megs]

You may want to tell her that several years ago there was recall on the wooden Thomas the Tank toys. It's not the plastic, it's the paint that contains lead. So any painted toy could be a problem, not just the plastic ones!

DON'T TEMPT ME!!!

No, buy him this.
Its wood.

Nice!

I know which one I'd be getting the little tyke....

Exactly! And I hope he looks like a real you-know-what, too!

 

[Mrs. Charming]

It doesn't say no pets.

Snakes are good pets.

No, buy him this.
Its wood.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA.... Love it. Sorry, but this mom deserves it!

 

[marcyinPA]

I teach two year olds in a private preschool setting, and I have to tell ya, parents are getting more and more weird every year. Because of "odd" requests, the children have become high maintenance. I can understand real issues like legitimate food allergies and stuff like that, but this year we have parents with healthy normal children who come in with lists of "we do this, not that" type of stuff.

I hate to say it, but because of these kind of parents, I think that this new generation will be one full of spoiled brats.

 

[kpm76]

I really don't know what to say, except that I would be skipping this party is at all possible.....but then you don't want to take it out on the child I guess.....

I always chuckle when anti-TV parents say their kids don't know characters from TV shows because there are plenty of books out there with these same characters that could introduce the child to lots of wonderful learning opportunities....it's really just a chance for these parents to jump on their moral high horse and have you think they are better parents because they keep the TV off.....

 

[Mrs. Charming]

I teach two year olds in a private preschool setting, and I have to tell ya, parents are getting more and more weird every year. Because of "odd" requests, the children have become high maintenance. I can understand real issues like legitimate food allergies and stuff like that, but this year we have parents with healthy normal children who come in with lists of "we do this, not that" type of stuff.

I hate to say it, but because of these kind of parents, I think that this new generation will be one full of spoiled brats.

That scares me, because in a few short years I'm going to have to deal with these macadamia parents and their high maintenance kids when DD is in school and makes new friends. Grrrrrreat.

 

[jrmasm]

Snakes are good pets.

I wasn thinking a monkey or maybe a calf. They aren't too messy.

 

[AKL_Megs]

I wasn thinking a monkey or maybe a calf. They aren't too messy.

A calf for sure... cute and cuddly, and doesn't get TOO large or messy.