Picture Perfect Thursday – Recital II
LatteGirl after her 2007 Dance Recital.
Some Pictures, don’t have a story. They just are the story.
Review: Moon Shoes
Moon Shoes
Though carefully worded to avoid “false” claims, the advertisement was clearly misleading, as way the high flying picture that was shown.
But LatteGirl persisted. She wanted them. And to top it off she wanted to use the money that she had saved as part of her allowance that we allow her to spend “any way she wants” to do it.
I tried talking her out of it, I even tried explaining (though I suspect she wasn’t listening at this point) that not everything you see in an ad is exactly true. But she continued on with the whole “I am supposed to be able to buy what I want if I save this money.” So, rather than “forbidding” her from buying them, I opted to teach her a lesson in advertising and allowed her to make her own decision and purchase the shoes.
Fast forward a couple of weeks later the shoes arrive. Huge Plastic Shoe Box sized “boots” with elastic bands that connect to a shoe that you strap to your feet. She excitedly waited as I put them together, put them on her feet, and allowed her to jump.
Clunk… Clunk… Clunk.
She sounded like an elephant bounding around the deck. Struggling to get any height out of this heavy plastic boots, and then having to strain to keep her balance as the bands wobbled back to a standstill. They were (no surprise here) a great disappointment to her, and for me, even worse than I had imagined. Your child binds themselves to these shoes with hard nylon velcro that is fairly secure. Possibly too secure. I could see if a fall happened the wrong way an ankle being broken in them.
She queried me as to why they “weren’t working” since the ad said she would get “50% more height in her jumps” and I pointed out that her jumps probably were 50% higher since she was starting about 5″ higher off the ground (the height of the shoe). She said that wasn’t “fair” and that she felt like she was “lied to.” Naturally, at that point I once again tried to explain to her that advertising is designed to sell a product, and that you have to really think about what they are saying.
So now I have a couple of plastic shoes sitting in my shed, which who knows if they will ever see the bottom of her feet again (I am doubting it), she is out $24 that she worked hard to save, and of course she is quite disappointed.
When I allowed her to buy them, I though it was a good lesson to teach her. Now I just feel like an awful dad for not protecting her from the evils of marketing. (But I guess, I will just have to hope that the lesson “took”)
7?? How could she be 7?
I just don’t know how it could be! Didn’t I just take this photos yesterday?
Ah, naptime. You don’t know what you have, until it is gone.
Always far more cool than your average little one.
And seemingly growing up way to fast.
Happy Birthday Princess!
Blogspotting
So it seems that Liz over at This Full House has had another birthday (I could have sworn she had one just last year), and to commemorate the ocassion, I would like to get her up to 43 Comments and Birthday Wishes. So please stop by here and wish her a Happy Birthday. (Oh, and any link help you could provide would of course be greatly appreciated, since I don’t think I have the volume of readers needed to actually get this done).
Like many people, I am often (to be polite) skeptical when it comes to infomercials. I mean the claims are always so dramatic and over the top. But sometimes I think to myself that if the product is just half as good as it claims then it might be worth it. But how can I tell for sure? How can I find the gems among the troves of late night garbage being hawked? Well, thankfully The Frog Report is back from a brief hiatus, and back testing products of the “Not Found In Any Store” variety. So before dropping your money on a product hawked by some has-been or former child star (was that redundant?) stop by and see what The Frog Report has to say.
Being a NJ Devils fan (thus hating the Senators), and having felt robbed when PaintShopPro got taken over (and ruined) by Corel, I rarely like anything in or around Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. At one time, I might have even said, it was Hell on Earth (or something along those lines). But unfortunately, I can no longer take this as fact. Once I started reading Bread Crumbs in the Butter, my view of this fine city has changed. Any area that can be called home by this this cool mom, can’t be all evil.
Finished
12:36 am – The “easy to assemble” portable basketball backboard for LatteGirl’s birthday is finally assembled.
And I sill got a solid 4 hours and 10 minutes before I have to get up for work.
Believe it or not, I have survived worse in the past, but I suffice it to say that right now I am less than thrilled with the manufactuerer (and their marketing people) and the ruse they pulled on his “quick to set up” backboard. But I will save that rant for after I have had some sleep.
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