Love in the Time of Preschool
- October 29th, 2008 9:40 am
Recently, a boy in Allie’s class tried to woo her with a pumpkin seed. It was quasi romantic as far as preschool chivalry goes. She’s been treasuring it since. All the while, her Dad claims she is going to be a floozy. But that is a whole other blog post.
Anyway.
After school, she usually goes to her dad’s office for an hour or two until I am out of class. When I picked her up on this particular day, she was too busy freaking out about her crooked pigtails to remember the seed. So she forgot the treasure on his desk as we left.
As a result of her lost love token, she was up in arms for a few hours until her dad hesitantly brought it home. At three, he is not thrilled with the idea of boys giving her gifts. I’m not sure that he will ever be, even if the gift would, if planted, grow into a pretty pumpkin.
When the asymmetrically oval seed was finally back in the palm of her hand, she told me all about it.
“*Larry gave me this pumpkin seed today. I lost mine. So he gave me his.”
She was beaming.
“Well, that was really nice of Larry. Did you say thank you?”
“Yes, and then I made a hook with my finger and chased him around telling him I was Captain Hook.”
“Niiiice.”
Unfortunately, Larry, like most boys, is hot and cold with the admonishment of his feelings. The following day, after he gifted a pumpkin seed to Allie, he told her he could no longer be her friend.
“And then,” she said angrily in her squeaky three year old voice, “he said he couldn’t be my friend, because I’m a girl!”
“I tried to tell her that boys are different when they are little,” her Dad cut in, “they don’t always like girls when they are that age. They like to chase other boys and play games with them. But eventually, they do like the girls.”
“Well,” Allie thought for a second, “boys are just weird!”
Amen, sister. Amen. If only I had known that at three, I might’ve saved myself many a night of wondering why guys acted so strange.
*Larry isn’t the kids read name.
October 29th, 2008 @ 9:44 am
That Allie is one smart cookie for figuring that out now. Does she still have the seed? Just curious.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 9:46 am
I’m going to start chasing available bachelors with my hand shaped like a hook, yelling, “I am Captain Hoook!”
Then maybe I’ll be a little bit more successful than I have been lately.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 9:47 am
My boys never gave little girls gifts. Interesting.
I think a seed that will grow a plant is an awesome gift.
Boys are weird. I have two, so I know what I’m talking about.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 10:27 am
Haha, that is great! Before you know it, she will be beating up boys in her class then being their best friend the next. It happened to my son and her name was Allie!
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October 29th, 2008 @ 11:34 am
You should start writing a book about your daughter’s insights. She could so many girls out there!
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October 29th, 2008 @ 11:37 am
Ahh, the butterfly emerges! Yay Allie for figuring out the facts of life so early.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 11:40 am
She has got those boys figured out. I am with you, I wish I had picked up that tidbit at three.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 11:54 am
Fickle, fickle boys. In kindergarten, the girls chase the boys all over the place.
Boys are definitely weird.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
Boys ARE weird.
And men aren’t much better.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
Allie is smarter than her three years. Much smarter! hee hee.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
I’m considering myself lucky that my girls haven’t really noticed the boy/girl thing yet. I’m kind of hoping they’re gay.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 1:18 pm
Well, I’m going to have to agree. Amen, and well said. They are indeed a strange bunch. I can’t profess even now that I’ve got them totally figured out. I’ll give her a call when I do …
~Brea
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October 29th, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
Heck yea. Sometimes I still don’t get that boys are weird at 36.. smart little girl you got there..
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October 29th, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
Oh, if Larry only knew that the same little girls that are chasing him around today probably won’t give him the time of day here in a few years….
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October 29th, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
I wish I had figured that out when I was three! My husband hates that my 9 year old has “boyfriends”. I told him to give it a few more years.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
Boys are weird. My baby girl is 19, dads get real freaky about boys when their daughters are that age too.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 2:49 pm
Heather,
Yep. The seed is sitting on one of her dressers in her room. haha.
-Amanda
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October 29th, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
A Whole Lot of Nothing,
I’m pretty sure my mom wanted me to be gay. She used to drop hints about how accepting she would be about it all of the time. Unfortunately, for her, I always liked boys.
-Amanda
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October 29th, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
Eternal sunshine,
so true. I still call men “boys”. I need to outgrow that before someone gets insulted. haha.
-Amanda
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October 29th, 2008 @ 2:58 pm
Aww. But that is so cute!
My Joey is quite the fickle boy. One minute he wants to marry a certain girl in his class and the next day he doesn’t like her at all.
Go figure.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Amen to that!!!
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October 29th, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
I love “Love in the Time of Cholera.”
That is all.
p.s. Your daughter is a wise one!!!
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October 29th, 2008 @ 6:27 pm
It took me years to figure out what Allie figured out in one day of preschool.
You’re right, Allie… boys ARE weird.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 7:26 pm
You sure she is just three?? What a wise one.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 7:34 pm
I wish I was as smart as Allie. Could’ve saved myself quite a few heartbreaks.
The hook? Um. PRICELESS!
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October 29th, 2008 @ 7:50 pm
Boys ARE weird. And they only get weirder.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 8:17 pm
today in the backseat my sass song about x the boy she loves and she sang…when will i know your middle name ???
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October 29th, 2008 @ 8:31 pm
Boys are WEIRD.
Except my little boy, he’s an angel. The girls all agree that boys must be from another planet.
Cheers!
Jamie
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October 29th, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
You just tell her that one day she’ll grow boobs and *Larry will be really sorry he didn’t give her ALL his pumpkin seeds and she can start getting nicer seeds from other boys.
OR not.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 10:34 pm
I’m glad you clarified that–I just can’t picture a three-year old Larry.
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October 30th, 2008 @ 2:05 am
My stepson is in 2nd grade and has 2 girlfriends. His only concern about moving back with us is losing these 2 girlfriends. They each know about the other, and he tells one of them that he likes them equally, and the other that he likes HER the best.
I assured him that at his new school, he’ll find a new girlfriend or two. The girls love him.
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October 30th, 2008 @ 10:36 am
Ahahahaha! I can just see her chasing him with a hooked finger…. that was great.
Smart girl. Figured out men, er, BOYS already.
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October 30th, 2008 @ 11:00 am
The funny thing is, those are the exact words SWMBO uses to describe ME. And I promise you, we are both well beyond school age.
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October 30th, 2008 @ 2:15 pm
I know my daughters catch (you know what) when I hear of them receiving a gift from a BOY!
And we’re not all weird…just most of the time
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October 30th, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
Man, that boy has some serious issues, flipping back and forth within a 24-hour period.
Peer pressure is rough, man. Gotta stay away from those girls.
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October 30th, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
Wow, that’s a lot of drama for preschool! The most I’ve learned about is “WILKIE pulled my hair, mama,” or “WILKIE pushed me”! It’s ALWAYS Wilkie. He must have a thing for her….
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October 31st, 2008 @ 2:01 am
At 17 and 15 I have different seeds that boys want to give my girls to worry about… *shudder*
And your girl is a pirate? I love her even more now.
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October 31st, 2008 @ 7:14 am
Larry is already demonstrating that he is a good provider.
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 10:45 pm
My son didn’t get the memo. He’s the one that likes to “run after the girls”. Preschool casanova, that one…
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