I took my little brothers to see Sonic the Hedgehog tonight and it feels great having these small moments with them. The younger one was super excited when he saw the opening credits for the movie. It was a surprise for him since he loves watching the Sonic cartoons on Netflix.
I really liked the movie too!
Anya and I saw Frozen the stage musical and woooooowwww it was stunning. The stage sets and lighting were absolutely incredible. It was a fantastic interpretation of the movie (if not better) and Anya said it ‘was the best thing in her entire life and worth waiting for’.
Valentine's Day is actually super expensive what the fuck nobody told me that
I spent a fortune and it wasn’t even on Mori!
Obviously the Frozen tickets were expensive, but I forgot what it’s like in schools now. I spent $60 this week on cards and candies for all the kids in Anya’s and Niko’s classes. Then I took Anya out to dinner prior to the musical and she ordered the wrong thing and struggled to eat more than two bites. Sigh, kids.
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You have to buy cards and sweets for everyone in your kid's class? Whaaat.
Yeah, I don’t know how it used to be, but certainly over the past decade schools in the US go all out with themed days and holidays. It was actually Niko’s homework to decorate a box to receive cards and it’s pretty much compulsory to bring in cards and candies for every single kid, you’re not permitted to bring in Valentines for just some.
Similarly a lot of preschools and first/middle schools now have rules that you’re not allowed to send in invitations to your kid’s birthday party unless you’re inviting every kid in the class. If you only want a few you have to do the legwork to get in contact with the parents yourself outside of school. So parents either go all out with massive parties or (what’s becoming more common) kids don’t have parties at all.
The themed days get ridiculous... one year the last 26 days of Anya’s school were all themed according to the alphabet. I’ve also scrambled to find black and orange clothes on Halloween, I once made a poster of 100 bandaids for the 100th day of school because I found out it was a homework assignment last minute and had nothing else in as large a quantity (at least she hasn’t had to dress up as a centenarian like other kids do)... it’s exhausting.
Our kiddo's school doesn't require it, the only requirement is if you're going to do some you need to provide it equally for everyone to avoid hurt feelings.
We crafted some neat bags and filled 'em with candy after letting her decorate them, it was all of like $6.
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The schools around here don't allow candy with valentines. If you want to send something in beyond just a card it ends up being something like stickers, or pencils, or temp tattoos or similar.
This was the first year either of ours was in a class that did anything for the 100th day of school, but thankfully all we were asked to do was send in 100 of something in a water bottle that was provided and labeled by the kindergarten teacher. So I convinced our daughter to go with 100 sprinkles, out of the roughly 8 million or so we have for decorating cupcakes.
The large number of spirit wear days are a little annoying though, and ensure that we have to buy school shirts that we'd probably pass on otherwise.
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Even just the idea of pre-schoolers celebrating Valentine's Day is boggling to me. But I can barely get my head around adults in a relationship doing it.
Our school is pretty laid back about all that kinda thing. It is all both in theory and in practice optional, just for fun. Even our spirit weeks are like, pajama day, ugly sweater, class color or school colors, dress like a teacher, etc. Nothing to really pressure school merch.
There's no official support at all for gathering contact info for party invitations though, which I guess is unusual? And ain't nobody around here wanting to invite the whole class so far.
Most of the recognition things like celebrating day 100 is exclusively doing something fun in class for it. Though we got talked into a special meal by our kiddo this year heh
For preschool they called it ‘friendship day’ and it was kinda cute.
One kid brought in scented teddy bears for everyone!
To be fair, I spent a fair amount largely because I bought actual cards, most kids brought in the tiny cards/tags. Definitely did not have to do that. Anya spent three hours writing in each card, which was sweet of her.
Even just the idea of pre-schoolers celebrating Valentine's Day is boggling to me. But I can barely get my head around adults in a relationship doing it.
My wife and I have thought Valentine's is dumb since we got together, and so have basically only interfaced with it as children. We got together very young. It definitely seems strange looking at very small children doing it through the lense of how adults treat it, but it's much more just a general appreciation of others at least until tweeny hormones start kicking in.
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To be fair, the school my kids go to absolutely encourages just wearing school colors on spirit wear days. But there are enough kids that wear the actual school merch that our oldest feels weird if he isn't wearing it too, so we felt obligated to buy some.
That said, it's not the end of the world and throwing some dollars at the school won't kill us. It just feels odd to me because my elementary school didn't do anything like that at all. But c'est la vie.
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Yeah, I don’t know how it used to be, but certainly over the past decade schools in the US go all out with themed days and holidays. It was actually Niko’s homework to decorate a box to receive cards and it’s pretty much compulsory to bring in cards and candies for every single kid, you’re not permitted to bring in Valentines for just some.
Similarly a lot of preschools and first/middle schools now have rules that you’re not allowed to send in invitations to your kid’s birthday party unless you’re inviting every kid in the class. If you only want a few you have to do the legwork to get in contact with the parents yourself outside of school. So parents either go all out with massive parties or (what’s becoming more common) kids don’t have parties at all.
The themed days get ridiculous... one year the last 26 days of Anya’s school were all themed according to the alphabet. I’ve also scrambled to find black and orange clothes on Halloween, I once made a poster of 100 bandaids for the 100th day of school because I found out it was a homework assignment last minute and had nothing else in as large a quantity (at least she hasn’t had to dress up as a centenarian like other kids do)... it’s exhausting.
This sounds like hell.
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School merch is an alien concept to me. Schools sound very different that side of the pond.
How so?
Wikipedia says that school uniform is worn in over 90% of schools in England. That is waaaaaay higher than in the US.
For as much as I don't appreciate the peer pressure to wear school spirit wear for my kids, they're free to wear almost anything at any time. My son recently got his hair dyed a ridiculous bright red in front, and bright blue in the back. There will be zero repercussions, and he can keep wearing whatever the hell he wants in the way of pants/shorts and tops. The only remote (self-imposed) restriction is avoiding going so far outside of norms that he becomes a target for ridicule.
We buy a couple of school t-shirts or sweatshirts for our kids to wear on spirit wear days. The rest of the time? They wear whatever the fuck they want or we feel like dressing them in. There are no uniforms or restrictions that we find difficult to deal with whatsover.
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Schools here are very much about instilling that sense of tribal loyalty in you early.
School merch is an alien concept to me. Schools sound very different that side of the pond.
Kick them in the knees! Throw them in the mud! Go East! Go east! blood! blood! blood!
The High School I went to had an interesting cheer. But by the time my little brother went they were trying to change it
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I wouldn't consider school uniforms school merchandise. And uniforms are mandatory at most UK schools so it's not like a school spirit thing. No kid here would choose to wear it if it weren't compulsory.
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No. I'm American and school merch/school spirit stuff is always weird and bad. Maybe it isn't this way now, but boy did it feel like a way to reinforce conformity when I was in the slog.
The benefit of school uniforms is that past the initial expense, they can save parents money IMO.
Like I’d get my uniform, then every school day I knew exactly what I’d be wearing. It took the pressure out of deciding what to wear and/or needing more clothes. Most of my childhood years I had just three outfits: my uniform and two weekend sets of clothes.
Also... your uniform is all that’s required by U.K. schools. There’s next to no fundraising, the need to buy school supplies is minimal, there’re no themed days. Once a year there’s usually a mufti day where you can wear home clothes if you bring in £1 and that’s the only fundraising we ever did. And the schools I attended didn’t have shops, and apart from the uniform there was nothing else with the school name on; schools don’t have logos or mascots or slogans, they don’t sell anything branded and you don’t have after-school clubs.
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School merch is an alien concept to me. Schools sound very different that side of the pond.
How so?
Wikipedia says that school uniform is worn in over 90% of schools in England. That is waaaaaay higher than in the US.
For as much as I don't appreciate the peer pressure to wear school spirit wear for my kids, they're free to wear almost anything at any time. My son recently got his hair dyed a ridiculous bright red in front, and bright blue in the back. There will be zero repercussions, and he can keep wearing whatever the hell he wants in the way of pants/shorts and tops. The only remote (self-imposed) restriction is avoiding going so far outside of norms that he becomes a target for ridicule.
We buy a couple of school t-shirts or sweatshirts for our kids to wear on spirit wear days. The rest of the time? They wear whatever the fuck they want or we feel like dressing them in. There are no uniforms or restrictions that we find difficult to deal with whatsover.
You don't buy uniforms, bar maybe a tie, from the school. You can just get that stuff anywhere (supermarkets, department stores, etc)
I suppose school merchandise is more like hoodies that unis manage to sell in vast numbers.
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
As much as I would've never wanted to wear a uniform while at school I think US schools should adopt them.
Seems like a good way to keep a lot of shitty classism out of the learning environment so kids aren't having to worry as much about having the latest Heelies or snap bracelets or Balenciaga clutches for their Molly and butt-vodka. Whatever it is the youths are into these days.
As much as I would've never wanted to wear a uniform while at school I think US schools should adopt them.
Seems like a good way to keep a lot of shitty classism out of the learning environment so kids aren't having to worry as much about having the latest Heelies or snap bracelets or Balenciaga clutches for their Molly and butt-vodka. Whatever it is the youths are into these days.
Judging by my 9 year old it is YouTube creater branded clothing. Which sucks for him because we aren't buying that shit.
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We got to the aquarium just in time to watch a giant Pacific octopus be released back into the sound!
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Edit: I guess that’s not exactly true, I said it to her yesterday and she said it to me too but it’s not the same as today.
Okay.
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I really liked the movie too!
I spent a fortune and it wasn’t even on Mori!
Obviously the Frozen tickets were expensive, but I forgot what it’s like in schools now. I spent $60 this week on cards and candies for all the kids in Anya’s and Niko’s classes. Then I took Anya out to dinner prior to the musical and she ordered the wrong thing and struggled to eat more than two bites. Sigh, kids.
Similarly a lot of preschools and first/middle schools now have rules that you’re not allowed to send in invitations to your kid’s birthday party unless you’re inviting every kid in the class. If you only want a few you have to do the legwork to get in contact with the parents yourself outside of school. So parents either go all out with massive parties or (what’s becoming more common) kids don’t have parties at all.
The themed days get ridiculous... one year the last 26 days of Anya’s school were all themed according to the alphabet. I’ve also scrambled to find black and orange clothes on Halloween, I once made a poster of 100 bandaids for the 100th day of school because I found out it was a homework assignment last minute and had nothing else in as large a quantity (at least she hasn’t had to dress up as a centenarian like other kids do)... it’s exhausting.
We crafted some neat bags and filled 'em with candy after letting her decorate them, it was all of like $6.
This was the first year either of ours was in a class that did anything for the 100th day of school, but thankfully all we were asked to do was send in 100 of something in a water bottle that was provided and labeled by the kindergarten teacher. So I convinced our daughter to go with 100 sprinkles, out of the roughly 8 million or so we have for decorating cupcakes.
The large number of spirit wear days are a little annoying though, and ensure that we have to buy school shirts that we'd probably pass on otherwise.
There's no official support at all for gathering contact info for party invitations though, which I guess is unusual? And ain't nobody around here wanting to invite the whole class so far.
Most of the recognition things like celebrating day 100 is exclusively doing something fun in class for it. Though we got talked into a special meal by our kiddo this year heh
One kid brought in scented teddy bears for everyone!
To be fair, I spent a fair amount largely because I bought actual cards, most kids brought in the tiny cards/tags. Definitely did not have to do that. Anya spent three hours writing in each card, which was sweet of her.
My wife and I have thought Valentine's is dumb since we got together, and so have basically only interfaced with it as children. We got together very young. It definitely seems strange looking at very small children doing it through the lense of how adults treat it, but it's much more just a general appreciation of others at least until tweeny hormones start kicking in.
That said, it's not the end of the world and throwing some dollars at the school won't kill us. It just feels odd to me because my elementary school didn't do anything like that at all. But c'est la vie.
This sounds like hell.
How so?
Wikipedia says that school uniform is worn in over 90% of schools in England. That is waaaaaay higher than in the US.
For as much as I don't appreciate the peer pressure to wear school spirit wear for my kids, they're free to wear almost anything at any time. My son recently got his hair dyed a ridiculous bright red in front, and bright blue in the back. There will be zero repercussions, and he can keep wearing whatever the hell he wants in the way of pants/shorts and tops. The only remote (self-imposed) restriction is avoiding going so far outside of norms that he becomes a target for ridicule.
We buy a couple of school t-shirts or sweatshirts for our kids to wear on spirit wear days. The rest of the time? They wear whatever the fuck they want or we feel like dressing them in. There are no uniforms or restrictions that we find difficult to deal with whatsover.
Kick them in the knees! Throw them in the mud! Go East! Go east! blood! blood! blood!
The High School I went to had an interesting cheer. But by the time my little brother went they were trying to change it
Like I’d get my uniform, then every school day I knew exactly what I’d be wearing. It took the pressure out of deciding what to wear and/or needing more clothes. Most of my childhood years I had just three outfits: my uniform and two weekend sets of clothes.
Also... your uniform is all that’s required by U.K. schools. There’s next to no fundraising, the need to buy school supplies is minimal, there’re no themed days. Once a year there’s usually a mufti day where you can wear home clothes if you bring in £1 and that’s the only fundraising we ever did. And the schools I attended didn’t have shops, and apart from the uniform there was nothing else with the school name on; schools don’t have logos or mascots or slogans, they don’t sell anything branded and you don’t have after-school clubs.
I would disagree if I knew what thews were. Please lift all the fish. High, high, high into the air, lift the fish!
In the 80s too. I remember making the valentines day boxes, and getting the packs of cards with cartoon characters on it so everyone in class had one.
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Yeah, they specifically make packages of those cards for school functions.
Unless you are just the kind of player that needs 30 valentines day cards expressing your platonic ideals.
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You don't buy uniforms, bar maybe a tie, from the school. You can just get that stuff anywhere (supermarkets, department stores, etc)
I suppose school merchandise is more like hoodies that unis manage to sell in vast numbers.
Seems like a good way to keep a lot of shitty classism out of the learning environment so kids aren't having to worry as much about having the latest Heelies or snap bracelets or Balenciaga clutches for their Molly and butt-vodka. Whatever it is the youths are into these days.
Judging by my 9 year old it is YouTube creater branded clothing. Which sucks for him because we aren't buying that shit.
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