If you don't get a valentine's day card or gift it doesn't mean shit
Trust me, it does to every little kid who never gets one. Bigly.
IMHO the entire exercise is stupid 20th century fake corporate bullshit and a waste of time, money, ink, and paper—ESPECIALLY for little kids, who aren't supposed to be out courting and wooing and falling in love and all that crap. Let kids have a childhood FFS.
When "popular" kids get dozens of valentines and the rest get the Charlie Brown treatment, it's like why are we doing this, again? What was the supposed benefit? Did we NEED to reinforce this dynamic?
What if we didn't do this? Is there some deep concern that kids might forget they're not in the popular clique if we don't remind them every so often?
What bad consequence would result if we treated valentine cards in elementary school exactly the way we treat all other greeting cards, and just didn't bother with them?
You misunderstood. When I say it doesn't mean shit, I mean they'll grow out of caring about it. And it's true. I didn't get many, and certainly less than the popular people. That hasn't mattered for a decade and a half.
Trust me, it does to every little kid who never gets one. Bigly.
IMHO the entire exercise is stupid 20th century fake corporate bullshit and a waste of time, money, ink, and paper—ESPECIALLY for little kids, who aren't supposed to be out courting and wooing and falling in love and all that crap. Let kids have a childhood FFS.
When "popular" kids get dozens of valentines and the rest get the Charlie Brown treatment, it's like why are we doing this, again? What was the supposed benefit? Did we NEED to reinforce this dynamic?
What if we didn't do this? Is there some deep concern that kids might forget they're not in the popular clique if we don't remind them every so often?
What bad consequence would result if we treated valentine cards in elementary school exactly the way we treat all other greeting cards, and just didn't bother with them?
This right here, 110%!!!!
I couldn't agree more
You misunderstood. When I say it doesn't mean shit, I mean they'll grow out of caring about it. And it's true. I didn't get many, and certainly less than the popular people. That hasn't mattered for a decade and a half.