Not that long ago, every boy wanted to be a cowboy, an astronaut or a policeman. Every girl wanted to be Barbie, who could be anything she wanted, and have Ken by her side at the same time!
These days?
Every kid wants to be Justin Bieber or Rebecca Black. The main reason for their immeasurable popularity? The relative ease with which they achieved their fame and fortune.
In the old days you’d have to play school talent shows, county fairs, and even weddings to ply your trade. Eventually you’d hit the bar circuit, possibly for the rest of your career!
But times have changed; we now have reality shows where contestants can stretch their fifteen minutes of fame, providing they can survive scathing insults from arrogant British judges, that is! And of course, there is always the internet, I’m referring to Youtube, of course, which made Rebecca Black so hated, people began to love her!
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I suppose how you achieve fame is irrelevant, it’s what you do with it that matters.
But then again, what do I know? I’m just a simple blogger trying to achieve some small measure of success the old-fashioned way - one day at a time.
#12: Trying To Track Down The “Holy Grail”!
For me, it was an action figure from the Six Million Dollar Man television series – look it up, kids – and tracking it down sent my parents on a quest from one toy store to another.
Confused? Join the club, pal. You have to pay close attention when you’re a parent and that’s not always easy. Thankfully, Google is there to bail you out. Monster High is the latest – although the way things change in the kid world, it’s probably been replaced already – “Must-Have” toy to hit stores.
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In a nutshell, they’re the teenage daughters of famous monsters. Just think Barbie meets Bratz meets Universal Monsters and you’ve got it. A couple of kids fell for them and now they all have to have them or they’ll suffer an aneurysm or something. It’s all beyond me but I know one thing: the look on my daughter’s face when she acquires one of these dolls compels me to move Heaven and Earth to get one.
All parents know what I’m talking about. We’ve all been there at some point or another; sometimes we succeed and snatch that elusive item just in time – sometimes we literally grab it from another poor slob – and sometimes we don’t. I shudder to recall my epic failures and so we won’t discuss them here. Either way, it’s a tough racket.
If luck – and the Fates - are truly on your side, you’ll snag that special treasure and fill your child’s heart with love and gratitude. All will be right in your universe.
Until the next rare item catches their eye.
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