My very literal kids are rule followers, and remain so to this day, often to their detriment. Like no food allowed, means my kid won’t enter the gym even with a bag of measly Skittles hidden in his sweatshirt. Sign says, don’t walk, we’re not walking, despite no cars in sight. No kids allowed kept me and rather attractive husband out of many a bars at many a ski lodges over the
Zero Tolerance on Zero Tolerance
This is not going to be funny, because I’m pissed. School restraints on children’s behavior are insane and I have a better idea: If you don’t like kids, don’t work in the schools. School budgets and zero tolerance and No Child Left Behind is an overwhelming obligation of a school district, but somewhere along the way, we forgot about the kids and families these rules effect. There is nothing black
Schools Closed. Snow Day #4
Snow days make working from home hell. I so wish I had an office to go to in order to escape kids lounging on the couch, ignoring laundry, fighting, spilling food, and acting as if they have a Snow Day From School. The nerve. Because I don’t. This is when my worlds collide and I don’t like it one bit. My part-time working life, the one that allows me to
Early Dismissal Screws Up My Life
Yippee. Kids are coming home from school early today. So work-at-home moms can just fuhgedaboudit. And those in the office can figure out how to bribe a sitter for the extra 1.5-3 hours smack in the middle of the day. Easy-peezy. And the moms of teenagers can keep their fingers crossed no cops, no undesirables, no sex on your couch. Cringe all you want, but us moms with teens know
School Open House Does Not Mean Open Mouth
Four kids, three schools (one’s in college so that ship has sailed). We’re down to three open houses this year: elementary, middle and high school. Two down, one to go. I’m trying to become that coveted trust agent in my immediate network of friends and neighbors, ie the other parents at my kids’ schools. I swear I’m trying, but it’s really, really hard. I’m trying to befriend everyone as I