| It was coming up to the birthday of my eldest son a | | | | I'd better take a bit of time to research what options |
| few weeks ago. As a parent it gets harder and harder | | | | were available to me as far as hooded kids |
| each year, as the children get more street wise, to find | | | | monogrammed bathrobe go. |
| a present that is both acceptable to a teenage boy as | | | | After much research I discovered that there was |
| well as enabling you as a loving parent to keep the | | | | indeed quite a demand for hooded kids bathrobes, |
| coolness that every parent tries to hang on to. | | | | generally the ones available are of a lightweight soft |
| After many weeks of trying to pre-empt what he | | | | cotton weave bathrobe which are used by many of |
| would like as a gift imagine our surprise when he | | | | the finest tropical hotels but I didn't think that this is quite |
| approached me one morning asking for a hooded | | | | what my kid had in mind, he wanted a rough and tough |
| bathrobe with his initials on it, just like he'd seen a pop | | | | looking hooded kids monogrammed bathrobe that had |
| star or other wearing some MTV programme or other. | | | | attitude, not something straight out of Fantasy Island. |
| Where on earth was I going to find a hooded | | | | Imagine my amazement when on my travels around |
| monogrammed kids bathrobe. | | | | the country I was thumbing through a local newspaper |
| When I was a child my birthday present were usually | | | | only to see an advertisement for a Turkish company |
| pretty basic things, a new football or a book or | | | | that were in town for one week only selling bathrobes |
| something of that ilk, nothing too taxing for my parents, | | | | of the very finest quality in all shapes and sizes, I had |
| I don't think they were too bothered about trying to | | | | to make contact with them while I could. |
| keep any kind of coolness going, my amusement of | | | | I found a contact number and after much confusion |
| wondering what my parents would say if I'd have | | | | finely described what it exactly was that I needed, a |
| asked them for a hooded kids monogrammed | | | | hooded kid's monogrammed bathrobe, and when I |
| bathrobe did nothing to ease my worries as to where I | | | | wanted it for. |
| was going to start looking. | | | | I chose a blue bathrobe, terry interior cotton outside |
| In the back of my mind I couldn't help but think what | | | | with gold piping and with a plush feel to it. I gave them |
| my son was hoping for with hooded kid's | | | | my kid's initials and the order was placed. |
| monogrammed bathrobe; was he hoping to emulate | | | | The order for the hooded kid's monogrammed |
| his gangster rap heroes with his newly acquired | | | | bathrobe was e mailed directly to the Turkish bathrobe |
| fashion item or was he looking to achieve the | | | | manufacturers [ and within 3 weeks a parcel arrived |
| appearance of a junior mafia don? | | | | on my doorstep, a week earlier than quoted. |
| These thoughts were more of a puzzle than a | | | | The bathrobe was magnificent, my son's face was a |
| concern though and would just pop into my head at | | | | real picture on his birthday, I was the coolest Dad in |
| random times through out the day, maybe as | | | | town and everything was perfect. |
| diversionary tactics by my brain to detract from the | | | | I have to say I love the hooded kids bathrobe so much |
| main issue, where would I get my hooded kids | | | | I've ordered myself one. |
| monogrammed bathrobe from? | | | | Like father like son. |
| Obviously I didn't want to disappoint my kid so I thought | | | | |