MC DONALDS

KIDS LOVE IT,

PARENTS NOT SO MUCH.

BUT SOME OF LIFE'S LESSONS

CAN BE TAUGHT HERE.

WHILE STAYING WITH THE GRANDKIDS LAST WEEK, DARYL AND I STOPPED BY THIS LOCAL MC DONALDS FOR HIS DAILY SODA.  LOOKING INTO THE PLAYPLACE BROUGHT BACK A FLOOD OF MEMORIES.  MANY YEARS AGO, WHEN SAM WAS IN KINDERGARTEN, JENNY HELPED OUT IN HIS CLASS EVERY TUESDAY, AND I WATCHED SOPHIA.  AFTERWARDS WE WOULD GO TO MC DONALDS. 

HERE'S WHERE THE LESSONS COME IN. 

SAM WAS TAUGHT TO BE ASSERTIVE AND ORDER HIS OWN FOOD.

IF HE WAS GIVEN A TOY THAT HE ALREADY HAD, OR IT WAS ONE FOR A GIRL, HE LEARNED TO TAKE IT BACK UP AND ASK POLITELY TO EXCHANGE IT.

MANY A TIME WHEN HE WAS CLIMBING IN THE PLAY STRUCTURE HE LEARNED TO BE KIND, AND HELP OUT HIS SISTER OR ANOTHER CHILD WHO WAS HAVING TROUBLE FINDING THEIR WAY OUT.

MY SANTA CRUZ GRANDAUGHTERS LEARNED EARLY ON TO CHOOSE APPLES INSTEAD OF THE FRIES, AND MILK INSTEAD OF THE SODA.

LIFE IS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE,

EVEN AT MC DONALDS!

SPEAKING OF MC DONALDS,

OURS HAS NOW REOPENED 
WITH A FRESH NEW LOOK.
DARYL'S HAPPY!