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January 24, 2009 |
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11th Birthday Party Agenda
FOUND by Jeff
in Indianapolis, IN
I found this note card on the floor after my daughter had a few friends over.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Hmm..is this a true find?
Regardless, would love to know what pranks were played. Many of the pranks I would engage in are considered illegal now.
Sadly (or perhaps not-so-sadly),
This is quite similiar to my agenda (19 year-old college student, ha!)
Silvib, your agenda includes dolls, too?
Very cool.
I miss the good ol' days of playing dolls. And House. I was always the big sister.
yeah, though this is less than a great find.
@fooch: if pulled half the "pranks" i played at age 11 I'd be in jail for the next few years.
I always indulge in a little smack between hanging out with dolts and using the computer.
I'm glad to see "play outside" tops the list above "computer." Where I live, kids don't play outside anymore, unless they're squatting on a doorstep with the latest Nintendo or whatever. Walk around, sit somewhere, talk, yeah. But gone are the jump ropes, footballs, pieces of chalk to play sidewalk games, even the "Chinese jump rope" (ie elastic circle) which was the most popular girl's outside game not so long ago.
"Truth or Dare"--now that one can end in tears, accusations and broken friendships, depending on the ages of those playing. Not a game I would willingly engage in as an adult.
I think this is a good find (though not great). It was found in the finder's house, true; but it wasn't fabricated by the finder, I don't think.
After all the bad spelling we've had lately from notewriters of all ages, it's actually refreshing to find a child that can not only spell correctly, but is also so organized as to make a list so her party moves along smoothly. Those words that, at first glance, look misspelled are actually places where letters cross other letters.
The only thing I worry about is snacks being listed twice. Disastrous eating habits are acquired early. Lets hope it was butterless popcorn, very lightly salted.
Oh, I feel for this girl. The fact that a) had to write out the list of activities for her sleep over, b) make sure that she planned out enough activities to keep her friends entertained, c) wrote it out on a notecard! indicates to me that already at eleven she is exhibiting classic signs of anxiety and perfectionism. I should know, that was me! Hope the good times flowed without the aid of the list!
I'm sure that next year's agenda will include "spin the bottle". ahhhhh innocence! I remember the thrill of truth or dare!
I remember constructing a list like this. Sometimes it got boring when friends were round. You had to know what was on the menu if you got bored playing with beanie babies for the second time in one day.
@Sitting in the Sun - when we played Mummies and Daddies (so British of me) I was always forced to be the dog by my 'friend'. If I was lucky, I could upgrade to the cat. Depends what mood she was in.
aah, the good ol' days when you'd invite your friends over for the night, have a little heroin and play a few pc games
I love how the 11-year-old writes the letter a. Very fancy! Did the girls have to hold their little fingers in the air as they sipped their tea?
My 9 YO daughter always writes out a list like this when planning a sleepover (and in fact just yesterday started her plans for her "golden birthday" in April whee fun!)
Last sleepover, her list included "fashion show". That was fun. Although they always draft the adults to be "judges."
They still play outside a lot, too- frisbee, "quizbee," sidewalk chalk...
It's kinda sad that the age of caller ID and *69 has killed the good old fashioned phone prank calls.
Is there a difference between "snack" and "snacks"?
It it sad that kids have to have a written agenda when they're hanging out with their friends? Whatever happened to spontaneity?
"Computer" could mean so very many different things. What do 11 year old girls mean by the word? Updating their MySpace/Facebook accounts? Checking email? Playing a specific computer game? Chatting online? Bidding on E-Bay? Doing a little programming? Adding some RAM to their laptops?
When the kids "play outside" do they NOT "play games"?
"Watch movies" ... in the plural, as in 'more than one.' Given the length of even animated Disney flicks, are the kids really going to watch more than one? Or are they watching Laurel and Hardy shorts?
I doubt the girl went down the list and announced to her friends, "Ok, come on in the house now. It's time to play Barbies for a half hour, and then we'll have some more snacks, and after that each of you can have 15 minutes on my computer." I mean, anyone that bossy & anal probably wouldn't have any friends. There aren't any check marks or Xs showing that they methodically followed the list.
I think the list was merely a reference for her, just in case things started to bog down; she could sneak a quick peek at the note card and pick out something fun to do next.
Believe me, there are some of us who just couldn't function without our lists. Many of the most successful people I know are listmakers. I think we have a Gal with a Plan here who should have a bright future ahead of her in high school, college & beyond.
@ Mountain: I was just thinking the opposite: I was TOTALLY picturing this young lady looking at her list the whole time, making sure everyone was on task.
Bossy and anal girls have lots of friends...and they each take turn being bossy and anal.
This is really Ashton Kutcher's list of turn-ons from match.com before he met Demi Moore.
She probably dreams of growing up to be a wedding planner.
when my daughter and her friends do "computer" it means they maybe play at webkinz for a while, look up stuff on youtube, check out google earth, read and reply to emails, fiddle around on myspace, go to stardoll.com and dress up some dolls, play around at project playlist..
Usually one person's in the driver's seat and everyone else gathers around, giggling, offering suggestions, and providing cute boys' email addresses. (much like when my mom, aunt, sisters and I play on the internet together. Ha ha ha)
I always make a list something like this when planning the kids' bday parties- I don't necessarily go by the list when it's party time, but having a plan of action in mind makes everything go much more smoothly.
I think this is the Dad's own notecard.
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"..anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes..."
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I think this find is cute. I did this sort of thing when I was eleven and still have piles of notecards with lists etc. Like Mountain Girl said, I wouldn't be able to function without them.
But is "talk" really worth putting on the list? Would she forget that option without jotting it down?
maybe "talk" should be more aptly named "dish"?
As a mom to one daughter, I found this find absolutely adorable.
It just shows what an in-between age 11 is...still playing dolls, but also playing truth-or-dare. And snacks are very important. My daughter always plans to have a "midnight snack" whenever she has a sleepover. I don't know if she writes things down, but she always has a plan, and often she's worked it out with her friends in advance at school or over the phone.
I wrote lists when I was little for when my cousins came over because we got bored to quick and could never decide on what to play, the only problem is the one time i'm thinking of when I wrote a list, I wrote it as we did the things and when we got to the end of things we wanted to do I took out my list and they were all done.
That is back in the days of making up my own games, we named one "Starbucks" I know that much, but I can't remember what it entailed, ;) It might be the name for the one game my cousin was talking about today when we were reminiscing: where someone calls out a colour and the first one to touch something that colour wins...lol... we were creative kids, this was around this same age too, it was alot of fun, we made scavengerhunts and misteries for eachother to solve and we were always creating new games, one of our favorites being "Wall Chase" which LITERALLY entailed running in a cirlce. ;)