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I will have to post pictures later, but I want to announce that our son (escort) and his girlfriend competed in a historical event tonight, the first ever Elementary School Calendar Girl Pageant for our town. The High School has done it, but not Elementary.

At any rate, they competed against 15 other couples in the first grade division for the months of September and October on the upcoming calendar. Our son's girlfriend won September. As her escort (boyfriend), our son gets to be in the picture with her for the school calendar, and gets to ride in the parade with her. They were so excited and so were the parents.

As a sidebar, our son's kindergarten teacher (from last year) came over and told my wife that if this was a contest where he was competing solo, that he would win hands down.

pa

Your first grade son has a girlfriend? Are you being serious? Is this a common thing in first grade now?

pastorables wrote:the first ever Elementary School Calendar Girl Pageant for our town.

Tracy wrote:Your first grade son has a girlfriend? Are you being serious? Is this a common thing in first grade now?

Tracy,

It could be a regional thing, but I had the same girlfriend in first and second grade. It broke my heart when her minister father was moved to another state. I went to school just across the line in Mississippi.

Of course, the term girlfriend/boyfriend is much different for a youngling than a teenager, etc.

Also, today the difference would be that the girls ask the boys.

pa

Steve wrote:

pastorables wrote:the first ever Elementary School Calendar Girl Pageant for our town.

Am I missing something?

pastorables wrote:

Steve wrote:

pastorables wrote:the first ever Elementary School Calendar Girl Pageant for our town.

Am I missing something?

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TW

pastorables wrote:

Steve wrote:

pastorables wrote:the first ever Elementary School Calendar Girl Pageant for our town.

Am I missing something?

Have you ever heard/seen the movie "Calendar Girls?" I think that maybe why the

That is the way it is now days I guess... My middle adopted grandaughter is in preschool and told me the other day that she has "8" boyfriends... It was all I could do not to erupt into laughter...

YellowRose wrote:

pastorables wrote:

Steve wrote:

pastorables wrote:the first ever Elementary School Calendar Girl Pageant for our town.

Am I missing something?

Have you ever heard/seen the movie "Calendar Girls?" I think that maybe why they

Nope. I've never seen the movie, and I've never once viewed the contest as anything unacceptable. The girls didn't even wear pageant dresses, but rather casual dress.

The contest was no more than a King & Queen (as titled in my day) type pageant that allows the school the opportunity to sell calendars for $10 each to raise money for their drama department. Ingenious if you ask me.

pa

pastorables wrote:

YellowRose wrote:

pastorables wrote:

Steve wrote:

pastorables wrote:the first ever Elementary School Calendar Girl Pageant for our town.

Am I missing something?

Have you ever heard/seen the movie "Calendar Girls?" I think that maybe why they

Nope. I've never seen the movie, and I've never once viewed the contest as anything unacceptable. The girls didn't even wear pageant dresses, but rather casual dress.

The contest was no more than a King & Queen (as titled in my day) type pageant that allows the school the opportunity to sell calendars for $10 each to raise money for their drama department. Ingenious if you ask me.

pa

I'm not criticizing it by any means...I was just making a reference to the "calendar girls" reaction.

My daughter announced to me last month that a little boy in her preschool class had asked her to marry him. And that she'd accepted. I told her it was okay for her to have boys as friends, but that she does not have a boyfriend. She said, "right, because I'm too little." But, she was still flattered, I think, that a boy thought she was cute or whatever.

I let it go but made the point.

AND, when I was an elementary schooler, it was common for every boy and girl to say they had this boyfriend or that girlfriend. If it's gonna be in the culture, it's gonna be in the kids' culture. We have to frame the context for the words that get used, and we can't prevent those words from reaching our kids' vocabularies. (We can bring consequences, but we can't be full barriers.)

Here is a picture of the cute couple.

He is too cute!!! I haven't seen him since he was a baby!!!

jessicacook wrote:He is too cute!!! I haven't seen him since he was a baby!!!

Thanks. He's growing up so fast, actually too fast for my comfort. Where is our little baby?

Cherish every moment with your son, as I know you do, for the time gets away all too quickly.

God bless,
pa

I kissed my first girl before kindergarten and had girlfriends in kindergarten and 1st grade. The prob is everything started so fast and then slowed way down; kinda like marriage.