I love, love, love my job! Where else could someone get a front row seat to a love triangle between children under the age of five? So, here’s the story, there is a little boy named Chris who is three years old. He is cool, he tells me he’s cool every day! His shirt is cool, his lego shoes are SUPER cool, his hair is cool. This kid is just what cool is all about. Somewhere along the path in his journey of cool, Chris was told by someone that because he is cool he has to find himself a girlfriend. He just does, it’s not negotiable.
Today Chris walked into my workplace, he looked around the room and his sweet little three year old eyes fell upon four year old Juliet. I have to tell you, Juliet is a little boy’s dream! She has rich, dark brown hair, beautiful chocolate eyes with bright flecks of green that light up when she smiles. She is quiet and sweet, a beautiful little girl inside and out! So when Chris came up to me and told me “Teacher, Juliet is beautiful!” I couldn’t disagree with him.
Chris and Juliet spent a good part of the morning together, playing ball, climbing in the jungle gym and coloring. There were some cute moments, like when a little boy hit Juliet with a ball and Chris came running to me very upset, demanding retribution and defending his new found love!
Enter Liam. Ladies on the playground watch out! This little four year old is a bad boy with blue eyes and a smoldering pout. He saw Juliet. He knew she had to be his girlfriend.
As soon as Liam and Chris stood next to each other near the shoe cubbies, they knew they didn’t like each other. A fight soon broke out, it went something like this: “I love girls!’ ‘NO I love girls!’ ‘NO I LOVE GIRLS’ ‘NO I DO!”. After that, the fight was on. The fight for Juliet’s heart.
Soon after this little spat, Juliet was on to both the boys and their intentions. She was starting to get sick of all the attention Chris was giving her. To get away from all the madness, she began to climb the jungle gym tower. From down below Chris called out to her, “Juliet! You have to be my girlfriend!” This is when Juliet climbed away as quickly as possible!
After this little incident Chris came to me stressed and very frustrated, “Teacher, she doesn’t want to be my girlfriend!” This is when Chris and I had a little discussion about girls. I explained to him that if he EVER wants to have a shot at getting any girl to be his girlfriend, he has to be nice. He has to ask ever so sweetly, and tell her how pretty she is. It doesn’t matter if you are the coolest guy ever. If your not nice, no girl will like you.
Chris took my advice to his three year old heart and began to climb the jungle gym tower in pursuit of Juliet. While Chris was climbing, Liam beat Chris to the punch. He asked Juliet to be his girlfriend, a little more nicely than Chris had the first time, she said yes. This is where Chris burst into Oscar worthy tears and collapsed from his despair on the jungle gym steps. I proceeded to pick him up off the steps of the jungle gym tower and told him he can try again.
Soon after this, Juliet was sick of all of the romantic attention from her young little suitors. She broke it off with Liam and tried to find a quiet place to be alone, away from all of the excitement that love struck little boys bring into the life of a four year old girl.
Both Liam and Chris sat in the corner near the cubbies, their heads hung. They tried to piece themselves back together the best they could after their hearts had been ripped in two by a darling dark haired beauty.
Soon Liam’s mother picked him up. Once Liam was gone, Chris decided to give love one last shot. Chris found Juliet in the computer room, he came up to her and in his cute little three year old voice said, “Juliet I really want you to be my girlfriend. I really like you. Your really pretty! Please will you be my girlfriend?”
I didn’t hear the end of the conversation, but Chris promptly came up to me after. He seemed in pretty good shape, at peace with the way things had turned out. He said, “Teacher, she says she doesn’t want to be my girlfriend. She says she wants to be friends.” I am proud of the wisdom young Juliet showed at this decision, she showed wisdom beyond her four years! I am also relieved Chris didn’t walk away from the experience completely shattered.
I personally found the whole thing really CUTE! I loved dispensing my guru love advice to my super cool three year old friend Chris!
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