Macy's "BIG" Announcement

This Really Needs to Stop

For the loooooove! When will "the world" stop influencing my child?!? Oh, silly me! Never.

M: "I know what those I heart boobies bracelets mean."

A: (thinking) Oh, that's just great. Here we go again, me having to explain something I shouldn't yet have to.

A: "You do, huh? What do they mean?"

M: " It's for you know, when someone has cancer in their boobies. So people will donate money to make a cure for it."

A: "I think you're right! But Boobies really isn't the best word to go around saying. It's kind of inappropriate."

M: "Oh yeah! I know. I just wanted to tell you what they're for..."

She obviously made the connection that children shouldn't participate in things that are inappropriate and the conversation continued ...

M: "I wonder why kids wear them then?"

A: "Ya' know, that's a great question. Why do you think kids wear them?"

M: (shrugs)

A: "Would you like to know what I think?"

M: (shakes her head yes)

A: "I think it's okay to support causes, things like trying to find cures for diseases such as breast cancer or autism or anthing else you see bracelets & t-shirts & bumper stickers for but sometimes companies use their slogan or logo, I heart boobies is a slogan, in a way that attracts negative attention."

M: "What do you mean negative attention?"

A: "Well, remember we said boobies is an inappropriate word, right?"

M: "Mmhmm."

A: "When whoever made those bracelets chose to use that word, they knew it would make people look twice at the bracelet, it would draw attention."

M: "Ohhh, yeahhh ... cause it's a bad word."

A: "Right.", "So while it makes them see what the cause is, helping people with breast cancer, it's doing so by drawing attention to a negative word."

M: "Ohhhh, so just like I wouldn't stand up in class & say, Miss Wolf I needa take a grunt?"

(laughter)

A: "Yes, just like that." (more laughter)

M: "I'd just say I need to use the restroom because that's more appropriate."

A: "Exactly."

Hunks & Chunks

When I first heard this term, I thought “Hunks & Chunks”? Hmmm … that’s a great way to say fit vs. flab … I still don’t really know what it represents but when I describe to you the example I was given of “Hunks” & “Chunks” you’ll probably wonder what kind of soap opera, love story my 2nd grader is endulging in! Hey, whatever juicy storyline it takes to teach phonics works for the Walkers!

M: “Oh! Mom. I have to tell you something!”, “You and Dad will loooove it!” “You’ll laugh.”

M: “We have these things called hunks and chunks …”

A: I interrupted with an exaggerated gasp followed by “MACY! You can’t be tellin’ people they’re chunks!” and then I sang the line from the song in Madagascar 2 “Chunky, Chunkay, chunkay …” but she cut me off with her cute little giggle ...

M: “No, there’s one I wanna’ tell you.”

A: “Okay baby, I’m listening now.”

M: “ ’E’ said, (very exaggerated lovey, gushy, mushy voice) Oh, I loooove you ‘A’! ‘A’ said absolutely nothing. So when you see ‘EA’ you say ‘E’!”

My take on this whole Hunks & Chunks thing is it’s love story between letter sound combinations. Is that what you call them? Letter sound combinations? For the love of Pete people, I don’t know! I’m just glad to see my kid’s teacher is more creative than the age old, “I before E except after C.” I guess nowadays it’s like reality TV for letter sounds! I’m in as long as the letters don’t end up with 16 & Pregnant in there anywhere!

Oh, and this is a sidebar but the two words together, Hunks & Chunks, makes me wanna’ sing this MC Hammer song. Can't you hear it? ... Hunks and a Chunk, Hunks and a Chunk we like the sounds with a Hunks and a Chunk ... Yes, I just made up my own song, don't judge.