Do you remember as a youngster getting or even seeing a ‘sticker’ and wanting to peel off the back of it, and stick it to anything even it was to your hand as a circular ‘smiley sticker’ reminding you of what a conscientious student you were? That was cool.
Anyhow’s after about 2 years of buying little ‘jet’ chocolates which contain sweet images of stuff associated with the natural habitat and even a description on the flipside, I put all of them on the TV room table which read better than my saying ‘I don’t a have a centrepiece table’. Here, they are just under the TV:
There are a lot there although it doesn’t look like so many in the photo. I wanted them there to attract my kids attention when they came to visit. When I was there age, I would have been amazed to unpeel a sticker and reveal – ‘yes this is a sticker that I can do anything with it…. I’m going to make my parents life hell and stick it here…. That kind of thing. I was holding out for those moments as a parent. The love / hate relationship of the sticker I wanted to recapture.
Those moments never came to bear. Not one sticker has been unpeeled. All of them remain intact. My kids have no interest in my stickers which I paid good money for to eat the chocolates inside. I always thought that kids believed the stickers were as good as the little, teeny chocolates, but it appears not. They couldn’t give two ‘F&/ks’ about the stickers which explains why they haven’t unpeeled any to cover my apartment with them. And that bothers me.
If I was them (in my dreams), I would have noted the amazing image of the natural environment on the front and then read the back description, like I wanted more school time. But they don’t do that. They still haven’t read a single one, (Mind you I’ve never read one) or seemed excited by this latest technology in chocolates called the sticker. After all the money I have expended eating chocolates to try to educate them, it hasn’t worked. It’s as though they think: Dad’s eaten all those chocolates and left us sh/tty stickers.
The gall of them.
“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”- Michel Legrand
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You must be joking Matt, kids these days don’t want stickers!!! They want phones, laptops and other such items I wouldn’t know anything about, when I was their age!! Oh so funny! And even if these high cost items were available in my younger days, my parents wouldn’t be buying them for me!!!
Hi Sharon. Happy Friday to you! I thought the least I could do after eating all those chocolates was share the stickers with my kids. They weren’t as enthusiastic. You are correct about what excites children these days as opposed to what excited us as kids. Can you blame them?
I’ve got an idea Matt! Share the chocolates with your children, and you keep the stickers!!! Ha! Ha!
You know what? That had never occurred to me. That’s a good tip. I like it and I’m grateful for the suggestion. He he
Oh Matt, you’re so funny!
Wishing you a great weekend!
Hi Sharon. That’s very kind of you. I hope the same for you. Cheers.
It’s interesting to hear that your kids don’t seem to care about stickers at all. Maybe it’s because they have different interests than you did when you were a kid. Or maybe it’s because they’re exposed to so many different types of entertainment and stimulation that stickers just don’t seem as exciting to them.
Hi there. Thanks for your input. I think you hit the nail on the head with your assessment of their lack of interest in stickers. Cheers.
This is funny. I still have my niece (8 years old) who is very fond of stickers and she gets some of my stickers from my apartment everytime she visits. I still collect stickers for my journals 😀 😀 😀
Your niece is still living in the pre-digital world. There is hope!
What I would have given for one of my kids ‘out of curiosity’ to peel away the sticker and stick it anywhere and I mean anywhere like we all used to do. Haha
She is also very active with roblox games (I do not understand this lego game something😅) I guess it is more on with the interest of the kids, I have also another niece which I thought would love stickers and stationeries but no she has no interest in these cute pretty little things 😅😅😅
Its a shame isn’t it how younger generations like Gen Z and Alpha prefer to live in a pseudo reality as opposed to the pre-digital analogue one like we did. We have in part social media to blame for that.
Have a wonderful day Jev!