On the one hand I get why, sometime around Valentine's Day, the
director of my daughter's preschool started discouraging parents from
sending cupcakes to school for kids' birthdays. Between Halloween and
Valentine's Day there were loads of sugary holidays. If you average in
the birthdays, that's minimally once a week when the next generation of
obese Americans was loading up on crap.
So the do-gooder in me
whole-heartedly agreed with the director's request. But as an adult
with unresolved birthday issues -- my late May birthday was an annual
competition between Memorial Day, weekends, and the last day of school
-- I wanted to tell her to shut up, we're bringing cupcakes.
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