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Also, who the hell buys their three-year-old a video game system?
If kids had coffee tables, they'd appreciate books for Christmas more.
I loved books for Christmas when I was a kid. I still do. The top of my wish list every year is a half dozen books.
Lots of kids NEVER get books as presents. This kid will eventually get over it and be glad for that book.
I do no think the kid is a jerk. I think his parents are jerks for raising a kid that would so adamantly throw a fit over an unfavorable present.
One year my great grandmother gave me white and silver FOILED leopard print hi-rise underwear (it was 1995 ?). I was 9 ... I almost cried in front of my extended family but instead I gave her a big hug and quiet thank you. Later, when a friend of mine found them in a box under my bed I started screaming THAT IS A BATHING SUIT, THAT IS A BATHING SUIT and covered the box with my body, out of self-preservation, before he could utter a word.
Books forever! None of this e-book shit either.
After opening a whole bunch of toys, my son 3 year old came across a present with books....keep in mind that this was kinda like his first "real" Christmas....and again he's was only three years old!....let me repeat. ONLY THREE YEARS OLD... And that he could just about understand and get the concept of the whole gift getting thing. I guess much to the blame of me, the media, and every commercial out there on TV he was more under the perception that you only get "toys" for christmas. To him Books are the fun time we spend reading (no less than three) every night before he goes to bed. Let me make something clear again. HE REALLY DOES LOVE BOOKS! But I'm guessing he was "overwhelmed" after opening way too many gifts (my fault I went overboard that year) and I think he felt "tricked upon" when he opened the books.....plus the fact that we were laughing at his reaction kinda egged him on to say the Poo statement..... He really is one of the sweetest kids I know and to see this reaction (if you know him yourself) IS cute.
I have deleted a lot of very undeserved negative comments that have been posted....I understand now that without a good understanding of the back history one could make a poor assumption of him....but now i hope you know that he was ONLY THREE YEARS OLD PEOPLE and that he only thought your supposed to get toys for christmas....partly because of how commercialized this holiday has become.....we have since taught him differently..............but just for kicks were gonna wrap books again for him and see what happens.
THANK YOU.
@27. Exactly.
The Dad is right (coming from a dad of a three year old).
You do your best to teach them gratitude, to say thank you, etc. but people, HE'S THREE.
Three-year-olds are not the most emotionally evolved among us.
When you were three, believe me, you were just as obnoxious occasionally. And your parents probably laughed at you as these parents do. Because its funny.
I read "The Gruffalo" the other day to a 1 1/2 yr old and a 4 yr old and it was like all time stopped and nothing else mattered but that book. I don't get to do this all the time so reading the book to them was a magical moment for me. Was cool!
They disconnected the cable. Best thing they ever did. We were restricted to videos and fuzzy Star Trek Next Gen episodes.
Also, if you get your kids shite books, they're going to have shite brains. When I was a kid, I got greek fables/history books with rad pictures and was happy as a pig in shit. TV rots your brain. Unless youre in your 20s and the show is True Blood.
-judgement has been passed-