I remember when I was little, my mom would take me and my sibling to McDonalds in the winter with some other moms and kids, and we would spend like 2 hours in the playland. She worked nightshifts (still does, 2-4 nights a week for 21 years... don't know how she does it) and would take a nap while we played with our friends and the other moms watched us. Very fond memories looking back at it.
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She spent about an hour in the playland afterwards. She has a pretty solid fear of heights but she really likes to try to push herself, at school she'll go partway up the ladder to the slide at recess multiple times to try to conquer it. Anyway, we were eating and she looked over at the play area and said "can we go there when we're done, I think it would be good to work on my fear of heights." Sure, whatever. So, we did, and she spent about 20 minutes incrementally working her way up from about a quarter of the way to about halfway and then coming back down to calm down. I encouraged her to keep going up one step at a time.
Eventually, two younger girls arrived, about 3 and 6, and the three of them became instant friends. The youngest wanted to go down the slide and had no issues going all the way up but she was afraid to come down. Her sister said she would wait at the bottom for her but that wasn't quite good enough. So she said to my kid, "why don't you go up there and help her go down the slide, and I'll wait at the bottom?" My kid was like, "well....see...I'm kind of nervous..." but she went up about two more steps than she had before. Then, after thinking about it for a second, she was all LEEROY JENKINS* and ran up the rest of the way. After that she went down the slide about 50 times before we finally left. She was quite proud of herself.
*look it up on YouTube if you don't get the reference
Now the BIG question is.... Did she at least have chicken?!!
Don't worry I get that one!
I'm glad you got some quality time with your daughter. I just had to jump off a 10-meter platform into a pool for my swimming class. Wasnt fun at first but it got better.
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She did, but let me tell you, she is a heathen. She ordered a six-piece McNuggets and an Oreo McFlurry, and she dipped her nuggets into the McFlurry to eat them. She learned this degenerate behavior from one of her older siblings.
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That's pretty common here. I think they have some kind of "put Ranch on everything" indoctrination program in the preschools. It's one of the reasons I can't pass as a native Minnesotan.That is like my daughter dipping her fries in Ranch Dressing.
Back when I was in college, when we went to McDs for $.50 cheeseburgers, we would often get vanilla milkshakes (or whatever they were called at the time) and use a hot apple pie as a spoon.
That was some serious late night munchies!
mmm, the real fried apple pies. The ones that were hotter than lava when you'd bite into them.
McDonald's lost their way!!
Yes!!!
