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September 15, 2009
Fairytale Town
We went to Fairytale Town today on the field trip. MonkeyMama tagged along to help out.
It was awful. Monkey was super attached to her mommy. We were there for three hours and she cried for two and a half. Any little thing could set her off. Before we entered the park, the teacher wanted to take a photo of the class by the entrance. Monkey was unhappy that she couldn't enter the park, so she started crying and missed out on the picture. MonkeyMama was furious.
And then we went in. Because there were two other kids in our little group, each child was to take a turn to see what she liked to do. Monkey pouted and claimed that she NEVER got a turn, even right after she just did. MonkeyMama couldn't understand her distorted sense of reality and started to wonder if this was a precursor to mental illness.
Monkey acted so spoiled that MonkeyMama was pretty embarrassed. Monkey seemed like the only child to behave that way and it got MonkeyMama wondering if this was because she didn't stay at home with her. Other kids seemed fine. One dad even asked if Monkey was the youngest in the family. This is great; we didn't want to treat Monkey like our parents did (we are both firstborn), so we seem to succeed in raising two possible youngest children in the family.
MonkeyMama was pretty disappointed in this field trip and she is not sure if she is going on the future trips.
Posted by Mike at September 15, 2009 10:09 PM
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