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For my daughter, it is never too soon to listen to Christmas music, hang decorations, or visit Santa at the mall. (Which she did the day he arrived, just to make sure she got to him early with her list.) Who can blame her, though? When you are six, the holidays have a certain **magic** about them. For us, when Halloween rolls into town, and straight through New Years, there is a rotation of decorations, activities and traditions.
One tradition that she has enjoyed since she was just a tot at three years of age, is getting dressed up and having a night in the city for the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. This year was no exception.
Every year, she goes with my mother and a rotation of family members. My mother planned to get tickets to attend, what I believe was, this year’s opening night performance on November 8th. My daughter planned in advance what souvenir she was going to bring home. It was decided that she wanted a snow-globe and T-shirt, to which Grandma and “Aunt” Janet, one of our beloved cousins, made sure to fulfill.
It wasn’t until the following morning, when she was showing off her bag of goodies from the previous night, that the mistake was noticed. My little first grader is still getting her sea-legs steadied in the reading department, so when she was reading her new shirt and said “magig,” I was quick to correct her by saying, “No, ‘magic’ has a ‘c,’ not a ‘g,’ at the end of the word.” But as the words were coming out of my mouth, I realized that she was RIGHT. My six year old, who is learning to read, caught the typo that must have passed through quite a few capable and literate adults!
As you can tell… she was not a happy camper. It did, however, open up a discussion about how everyone makes mistakes sometimes, and that sometimes you need to look out for one another so a silly mistake doesn’t make it’s way to the final product.
I suppose some would have been angered by the high priced typo-toting souvenir slipping through the cracks, but not here. Mistakes happen… and if you can’t have a little fun when they do- well then, you need a good dose of some Christmas Magig in your life this year.
*This thoughtful parenting opportunity was brought to you by the letter G.
