When She's Five
Gracie has the big girl blues. She suddenly feels very little and wants to know how old she must be to do a wide array of things.
I am not sure when this crisis of age began, but only one Shipley woman can be depressed about her age at a time--and I win!
I think being around her older cousins, and talking about being a big sister has her thinking about wanting to do bigger kid things. It all seemed to start when her cousins got these scratch art kits from Grandma. Gracie got tons of things, but she watched as her older cousins were in thralled in these pictures. She wanted to do one, but the stick you use is very, very sharp and we told her maybe when she is older.
Now, I am thinking back, and we don't say that often...so I am guessing it is just something that is on her mind lately.
She has been asking "how old do I have to be to do..." fill in the blank here. This has become quite the headache over the past few days, and I worry about her trying to grow up before her time. So, today I sat her down and we talked about all the things she would get to do when she is 5.
I started at 5, because her birthday is in a little over 2 months. We talked about her getting to go to Kindergarten, learning to tie her shoes, learning to read, becoming a big sister, going fishing. Yep, she wants to go fishing and camping. She is still a girly girl, and I don't think she will like it much once she tries it--but I won't discourage her. She sees camping and fishing from the characters on Noggin, and they make it look fun.
I am hoping that by focusing on the exciting things she can do now will help curb those desires to be bigger. She has plenty of time to grow up and I am certainly in no hurry. As for other limits. She wants to wear make up--that has been given the age of 16. Ear piercing at 12, Barbies at 6 (it has been hard to make her wait when all of her little friends at school have Barbies and everything Barbie. But, I think she can wait another year so I am caving in at 6 instead of making her wait until she is 8 or 9), the scratch art I arbitrarily said at 8 only because Matthew (the youngest cousin) is 8 and he got one.
As for what she is looking forward to the most; she wants to go to the beauty parlor for her fifth birthday! She wants to get "beautied," and I think it is a neat idea. So, that will be her present, a trip to the beauty parlor. I of course intend to talk to the people before we go. A woman I know opened her own shop a few years back and I know she will be wonderful with her.
For now talking about all the exciting things she can do that she couldn't before, and all of the things to look forward to this year, seems to be helping.
I am sure many of you know what it is like to want to be older, and now that you are, you wish you could turn back time. I know I do!
I am not sure when this crisis of age began, but only one Shipley woman can be depressed about her age at a time--and I win!
I think being around her older cousins, and talking about being a big sister has her thinking about wanting to do bigger kid things. It all seemed to start when her cousins got these scratch art kits from Grandma. Gracie got tons of things, but she watched as her older cousins were in thralled in these pictures. She wanted to do one, but the stick you use is very, very sharp and we told her maybe when she is older.
Now, I am thinking back, and we don't say that often...so I am guessing it is just something that is on her mind lately.
She has been asking "how old do I have to be to do..." fill in the blank here. This has become quite the headache over the past few days, and I worry about her trying to grow up before her time. So, today I sat her down and we talked about all the things she would get to do when she is 5.
I started at 5, because her birthday is in a little over 2 months. We talked about her getting to go to Kindergarten, learning to tie her shoes, learning to read, becoming a big sister, going fishing. Yep, she wants to go fishing and camping. She is still a girly girl, and I don't think she will like it much once she tries it--but I won't discourage her. She sees camping and fishing from the characters on Noggin, and they make it look fun.
I am hoping that by focusing on the exciting things she can do now will help curb those desires to be bigger. She has plenty of time to grow up and I am certainly in no hurry. As for other limits. She wants to wear make up--that has been given the age of 16. Ear piercing at 12, Barbies at 6 (it has been hard to make her wait when all of her little friends at school have Barbies and everything Barbie. But, I think she can wait another year so I am caving in at 6 instead of making her wait until she is 8 or 9), the scratch art I arbitrarily said at 8 only because Matthew (the youngest cousin) is 8 and he got one.
As for what she is looking forward to the most; she wants to go to the beauty parlor for her fifth birthday! She wants to get "beautied," and I think it is a neat idea. So, that will be her present, a trip to the beauty parlor. I of course intend to talk to the people before we go. A woman I know opened her own shop a few years back and I know she will be wonderful with her.
For now talking about all the exciting things she can do that she couldn't before, and all of the things to look forward to this year, seems to be helping.
I am sure many of you know what it is like to want to be older, and now that you are, you wish you could turn back time. I know I do!
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