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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe Paw Patrol is something he jokes with his friends about. My DD and her classmates last year (4th grade) had running jokes about Peppa Pig even though none of them had watched the show in years. [/quote]
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My older kids also got into Peppa pig, Shrek, etc more as memes. One of my junior high kids even brought young themed cupcakes to school as a joke [/quote]
Lol, I’m the PP and Shrek was also big amongst my DDs 4th grade class last year. OP, talk to your kid about why he wants Paw Patrol, it may very well be a joke his buddies are in on. If one of my kid’s friends had thrown a Shrek or Peppa Pig themed party last year the kids would have thought it was hilarious, and they all would have been in on the joke (me as the parent not so much). I don’t think this is as big of a deal as you are blowing it up into. [/quote]

I agree that OP should talk to her kid about why but I don’t think OP is blowing it up. It seems unlikely that a 3rd grader would come up with an ironic party theme. OP, I hope you report back, I’m so curious what inspired his idea![/quote]
Ummm the kids aren’t trying to be ironic, kids that age now find the things they liked when they were little like Shrek, Peppa Pig, Caillou, etc. to be funny because there are a million memes about them. Everyone is going way too deep on the thoughts of a bunch of 3rd grade boys, but by all means don’t listen to the parents who have recently seen this phenomenon up close with their kids of the same age. [/quote]

Late elementary school kids are not the same age as 3rd graders. [/quote]
Seriously, 4th grade is literally 1 grade after 3rd grade. There are red-shirted 3rd graders who should be in 4th. These are all kids roughly the same age. I’m going to guess you do not have kids this age.[/quote]

You guessed wrong! I do have kids this age and I see how they and their friends are different from the 5th graders. The other PPs are talking about a 5th grader and middle schooler (and some high school kid with a mullet). OP is talking about someone who just started 3rd grade, and those new 3rd graders are in a much different place developmentally than last year’s 4th graders. And as a reminder, I didn’t say it was impossible that the paw patrol thing to earth this 3rd graders joke, I said I think it’s unlikely. You seem to think it’s likely. Whatever. [/quote]

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