I! Me! Mine!

"When I get married it won't be the same as my party. I'll have a fiance. It won't be just what I want, it'll have to be what he wants too."
Arnold Wolf, emeritus rabbi of Congregation KAM-Isaiah-Israel in Chicago's Hyde Park and not one to mince words, has this to say: "It's really, really dangerous. It communicates narcissism instead of obligation. It's the worship of the child, instead of the child's worship of God."
Of course the sample ‘kid’ is Catholic. As if last year’s article about splooey First Communion celebrations didn’t make us look stupid enough. We had Chuck’s godparents over for cake (a really good, top drawer cake from Deerfields) after his confirmation. After that and the medal on a sterling chain (he’s a man now, no more cheap chains...) we still came up about $39,955 short in the coming-of-age expenditure department. Can he ever forgive us?