Easter is coming soon, so Benji's nursery again asked that children take in a painted egg as there will an egg beauty competition. I didn't mind that he is paiting an egg (in Hungary only girls do as per tradition and boys receive them if they sprinkle the girls with water) as at least he keeps some Easter tradition, plus he really enjoyed it. That much that we had to blow another egg as the two we did weren't enough. (we ate omlette for lunch that day as another 2 were broken in the blowing process)
We only have to teach him that you wash the brush out after each colour as in the end the eggs and all the paints looked the same goosepoo colour. Nevermind, we used some stickers and they were beautiful.
On the paper from the nursery it was specifically pointed out that they will appreciate more if they can see that the parent didn't help, and the paiting is age appropriate. I took this on of course, but I didn't even have the intention to do it instead of him as there wouldn't be a point. And who cares anyway whose is the nicest egg, I am sure every parent thinks that their child's is the best anyway.
Turns out that not all parents thought this way, which is a bit annoying as I now feel sorry for Benji. We forgot to take the egg in on Monday and on Tuesday morning he said he doesn't want to take the egg in, and didn't let us take it (despite all weekend and on Monday he was carrying it around as if it was a totem). When we dropped him off we saw some of the other eggs and were clear that some of them were not made by the children (that or my child is really rubbish at painting), there were little baskets with fluffy cotton balls, rabbit ears, chicken faces etc. No wonder he didn't want to take his egg in anymore.
Why do parents do this? Does it really matter who wins this egg competition?
(And if it is Easter, it is rabbit, lamb, chickens...Benji used managed to time it right and have a festive chicken pox....)
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