{"id":889,"date":"2006-12-07T17:37:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T02:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2006\/12\/07\/still-more-pre-teen-fun\/"},"modified":"2006-12-07T17:37:23","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T02:37:23","slug":"still-more-pre-teen-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2006\/12\/07\/still-more-pre-teen-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Still more pre-teen fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2006\/12\/04\/drink-alert\/\">previous episode<\/a>, we introduced the boy to whom my Daughter can never date. Or mate. or any other things. What I didn&#8217;t mention was the rest of the conversation that revolved around acceptable gift giving limits in Jr. High. Seems a friend of a friend of hers in 8th grade wants to get his girlfriend a $300 necklace for Christmas. What are his parents THINKING? (aside from &#8211; damn, we&#8217;s rich!) She added that it was his money that he earned and he should be able to spend it as he pleased. Yeah, we fixed that point of view real quick.<\/p>\n<p>The nice thing is that it opened discussion for things people don&#8217;t normally think about, and we had fun setting up limits as for what would be acceptable for kids her age. (I *love* when my kids help set up their own limits!) for if and when it becomes an issue for her.<\/p>\n<p>Cue today&#8217;s conversation:<\/p>\n<p>TheGirl: So, that boy I told you about?<br \/>\nMe: yeaaaaaaaaaah&#8230;<br \/>\nTheGirl: He gave me a piece of gum today!<br \/>\nMe: um. YAY!<br \/>\nTheGirl: Now (completely straight faced), that&#8217;s not too expensive a gift, is it? I mean, I could TOTALLY hawk it back up and give it back to him if you think it was too much&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Need I even go into how much my kids rock? She&#8217;s totally gotten my sense of humor, and is completely adorable!<\/p>\n<p>And yes &#8211; I totally told her to give the gum back. Oh! The eye rolling that brought out!<\/p>\n<p>In other news &#8211; her clarinet is once again back in her hands, and she is busilly catching up on tons of missed practice. Oy. me&#8217;ears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous episode, we introduced the boy to whom my Daughter can never date. Or mate. or any other things. What I didn&#8217;t mention was the rest of the conversation that revolved around acceptable gift giving limits in Jr. High. Seems a friend of a friend of hers in 8th grade wants to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primaries-family","category-myriad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}