I've decided that an 8 year old girl is hard to Christmas shop for.
My daughter is at the age where she's constanty telling me she's too old for stuff. Like dolls.
How can she already be too old for that? But she wants more teenager things. She wants clothes. And shoes. And a cell phone.
A cell phone!
I told her that was ridiculous but she said everyone else had one. And she's not wrong.
When I go to pick her up at school, as soon as the bells rings, the kids shuffle down this ramp.
At least 80% of them have whipped out their cell phones and are making calls. To who I wonder? These children are all under the age of 12.
I'm not even sure I knew how to dial the phone when I was 8 years old. Maybe I did. But who the hell would I have been calling unless it was an emergency and my parents needed an ambulance.
This is life nowadays though. She also wants an iPod and a laptop.
I mostly just want my baby girl back. Who is this tiny adult? Why do they want to grow up so fast now?
Last year she still wanted Barbie dolls. But now she says that's so second grade. Only lame people like Barbies.
So how do you shop for a small child who thinks they're all grown up?
I guess she takes after me. I used to think I was all grown up too at that age. But I still didn't have a cell phone.
Mostly because they didn't exist yet. Maybe I would have wanted one if they did?
But I'm still not buying her that.
