r/ClassOf2037

I am thinking ahead to my son’s birthday in a few months. I’ve done a whole class party since preschool. It’s anxiety-inducing, but each kid feels so special to be included and some tell me this is the only invite they get all year and they look forward to it each year. 😞 I can’t do that this year. I’m tapped out. All I want to do is a very small weekend trip an hour away (just our family), but my son is adamant he wants a party. He loves the social aspect. It’s not that he wants anything fancy. So on that note, I told him he could invite 4-6 friends, tops, and if only 1 kid could show up, so it be it. I want to do our house and not a public place. Probably pizza, maybe a kid movie, and something else. What’s a small activity I could do or rent? Not a bounce house level. Been there, done it. Maybe I can rent an hockey table or something? My kids have never played that, but it seems like something kids would do? My son loves crafts, but I don’t think other kids he would invite do that much.

We went to the park tonight and all of a sudden, my son said “mommy, I have to pee” and then ran off into the woods area and peed. It’s right by the playground, so the couple with their kid saw him. He did it so he pulled down his shorts just enough for him to pee, but didn’t show himself in public. The mom saw what he was doing because she looked at me and we both laughed. I laughed because I was kind of embarrassed, but she thought it was kind of funny. Do you let your boys pee in public?

Y'all. I don't know where else to post this, but these sweaty little kids SMELL. They are 7 and almost 5 and it is 90 degrees here. Everytime they go outside, they come back in and smell horrible. Mostly, their heads. It isn't armpit stink or anything like that yet, just a gross, sweaty smell.

They shower every couple of days and they are still using a kids 2 in 1 shower gel/conditioner. Is it time to switch?? Do they need better products?? Deoderant?? Help!!

What I mean is, having rhymes all the local kids know for counting off who is "it"; universal games they all know and play, initiated by them without adults telling them what to do; jokes they pass around that are just kids jokes, traditions, weird kids' fads and so on. Maybe also that there are older kids who guide the younger kids and teach them the games.

I am curious, because I believe this children's culture may have died out in some places, and recently reflected I'm glad my son is growing up in a place where this type of childhood is still going strong. I wonder how it's going in other places. Thanks!

It's absolutely adorable, but holy shit they're so bad! 😂😂😂

They have no chance, I am completely tone-deaf and cannot keep a beat, and my wife is not much better. I feel a little bad for cursing them with this particular disability.

My 7 year old is an only child. He often gets together with his 4 year old cousin, who is not yet potty trained. He hung out with his cousin today, whom he had a few potty accidents. At night after his cousin was dropped back off at home, my son was watching tv when all of a sudden, he told me that he had an accident. I was giving him a shower and I asked if he did it because his cousin peed his pants, and my son admitted to me that he did and he hold me he wanted to be like his cousin. My son is obviously potty trained so him having accidents is very unusual. Is this “normal” behavior for him to want to copy his cousin by having potty accidents like his cousin? My son has been potty trained since he was 3, so it’s very unusual for him to have accidents and I doubt it was just a coincidence that he had an accident too when his cousin was over at my house and had a few accidents today.

I just don’t know if they’ll feel awkward for having grandma take your kid instead of you since they know you and never met your son’s grandma.