Tales Of The Six-Year Old
By Wyatt Earp | March 11, 2010
My six-year old son brought home his first note from school on Monday.
Was he terminated with extreme prejudice? No, it wasn’t that kind of note. Allow me to explain. I picked Erik up from school on Monday afternoon and after exchanging hugs he jumped into the car. We drove to the other side of the school to wait for Kyle, who gets out fifteen minutes after Erik. While we were sitting in the car, Erik went into his schoolbag and pulled out a yellow piece of paper. He handed it to me and said a girl in his class gave it to him. It read as follows:
The girl’s phone number.
“I LOVE YOU”
The girl’s name.
After reading the note, it took every ounce of energy not to laugh. Kyle has always been popular with the girls in his grade, so I almost expect a note to come home with him. On the other hand, Erik is very friendly, always talks to the boys and girls in his class, and never treats the girls like they have cooties. That being said, they are in kindergarten for cripes’ sake!
On the way home, I called the wife and prepared her for the news. She immediately started laughing and said, “Oh my God!” I asked her to not make a huge deal out of it so Erik didn’t feel uncomfortable. Apparently that wasn’t going to be an issue, because when he got home he showed the note to the missus and said, “Guess how great I am?”
Now I know the girl, because Erik talks about her occasionally, and she is unbelievably cute. She also seems like a really nice kid. It’s a lot to process, but I also think it is one of the coolest things ever to happen to Erik. He is a really good boy, and I am glad his friends see in him what we see every day.
Topics: The Boys | 15 Comments »
My son’s birthday was two weeks ago. The tradition in his classroom is that the children write wishes for the birthday boy. Usually, it’s a new computer, a hundred dollar bill, or a TV, sometimes it’s a little more exotic- a trip to Japan, Venice Beach, CA or Ohio. This year, two of the boys wished him a girlfriend, I laughed until I noticed two more gray hairs…
Wait a sec…. There’s no such thing as cooties?
Mrs. Crankipants – Code Monkey, a female, wrote me an e-mail saying to tell him to enjoy it before the girls start playing head games. Heh.
Sully – Depends on the girl.
Boys have cooties.
Girls have cooties.
Boy cooties and girl cooties are different and can not be allowed near each other.
Cooties do not go away until the age of 50.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. And it seems to be working for now. That and “When you get to be older than me, you can ____.” They are very agreeable to that.
Casa Nova!!! A Mr. Miyagi moment!!
Girls are much more aggressive today!! I have 4 sons, and e mails, texts, and video chats and PICTURES are incredible.
He is a cute kid and if I were 5 I’d write him a note, too. Don’t worry until she asks to play “doctor”.
Kim – They are now, until they figure out that the cooties don’t exist. And we parents will rue that day.
Danny – Erik can take his good old time with that. I do, however, wish girls were more aggressive when I was younger. I am way too shy to talk to them now, let alone back then.
MeToo – I’ll tell him he can’t until he graduates from medical school.
Cutest thing EVER!
Soooooo, when do you post a picture of the hot chick? (Yeah, I know… 12 years from now.)
He has really pretty eyes.
The girls are going to hound this kid…
RT – Yeah, it was cool.
Mike47 – With my luck, I’ll still be blogging.
Mrs. Crankipants – Yeah, I’ve resigned myself to that fact. Ugly dads always make cute kids. Heh.
That. Is. Precious.
I went thourgh a similar experience with my son. He was in kindergarten or first grade and got invited to a classmates birthday party–a girl. When I dropped him off at the end of the driveway I suddenly realized he was the only boy to be invited and there were 8 or 9 young girls running across the lawn shouting, “Oooh, Ricky’s here!” like he was a rock star or somthing.
It was all I could do to keep from laughing out loud. Had a difficult time wiping the smile off my face for the rest of the day, too.
BTW, that reaction from the opposite sex continued through college. He’s 26 now and very happily married.
Sally Anne – Yeah, it was a very good day.
Joated – Nicely done!
[...] We were a little worried about kindergarten because Erik had a few tough moments during pre-school. For a while early on, he didn’t want to go, and would cry when we left him at school. Thankfully, those issues disappeared this year. It was comforting for him to know that Kyle was in the same building now, and despite his initial shyness, Erik makes friends rather easily – especially with the girls. [...]