On Dec 27, 2007 1:43 AM, Mary Jo Sminkey wrote: > > > But the one who scored the most in our family was our 3 year old, > > which is how it should be. > > Well, I kind of wonder about that, it does seem like so many families go so > overboard with the younger kids and what does that really teach them?
I'm with you there. I tried to explain to the family that we wanted a small Christmas, and we did manage to pair down the adult gifts to those of the "stocking stuffer" variety. But, everyone went way overboard with the kids. (Not us, we only got them a couple things, and that only because there was a fundraiser for the preschool and we got things from that.) It really is toy overload. My sister got my son a way cool gift, though - she got him a gift certificate for www.kiva.org. The concept is still a little over his head, and we haven't sat down with him to go through his options for who he'd like to help. He's far too focused on "stuff" right now. But, we'll sit down with him this weekend and help him pick out someone that he wants to give the money to and talk to him about how the program works. I was standing in this shower this morning thinking that I need to find some sort of volunteer work that we can do together. He's old enough to start giving back. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249136 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
