Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from February, 2014

Thing 6: Fun Over Time

I started this blog post around Thanksgiving.   It’s now mid-February.   Needless to say, it’s been a busy few months, and so I’m just now picking this back up for the last and final “thing every kid needs.”   Because it’s been so long, please feel free to reference my previous 6 posts in order to figure out what the heck I’m talking about! Anyway, so since I began writing this over Thanksgiving, for the sake of this post, let me pretend, for a moment, it’s that time of the year again.   Throughout the month of November a flurry of inevitable clichés begin appearing on Facebook (ie: daily “I’m thankful for” posts, pictures of elementary age children in their pilgrim and/or Indian costumes, etc.)   Typically, I roll my eyes at these things…or anything cliché, for that matter.   But one particular post jumped out at me the other day.   A friend of mine posted a picture of a project her kindergartner had done at school.   He was supposed to list who he was thankful for and why.   His