A Boyfriend for My Daughter

I was driving home today after picking up our kids. My 5 year old daughter proceeds to tell me how her classmate has an ex-boyfriend. She’s 5 too. Seriously. But wait, there’s more. She too wants a boyfriend, but she has no idea why. There’s a boy whom, I will call Chad. He has four girlfriends, one of which is my daughter apparently. One girl wants to kiss him! Chad also, in her words, “like believes he is the strongest man in the world, even though he’s only 5. Wow!

I had to resist the urge to tell her to choose someone without such an inflated ego. For goodness sakes, do not share a man with 3 other girls! Do not follow him around, and do not do everything he does! But, alas, I remembered, she is only 5. I still remember the crush I had when I was 6. It’s harmless right? I’m not so sure.

This was a hard conversation to hear from my little girl. I developed a dislike for poor Chad. I want to lock up my daughter in her room for the next 20 years. My parents would laugh if they knew how I was being paid back this way! Oh well. What goes around comes around.