Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
There is not a school community untouched: kids not old enough to see Rated R movies or drive a car are sexting: taking videos and pics of their parts and sharing with one, or some. Then some more. Kids think they are flirting. Or sexy. Or competitive. Or hot. Or cool. Schools and police deem it criminal. Immune/oblivious parents adopt a mob mentality on social media to crucify the minors, the parents, and
People told me that if I could live through raising teenage girls, the boy would be nice to me. Those people lied. This kid of mine, the last one home, the boy who would crawl in bed and watch SportsCenter with us, squishing his 6ft frame between his incredible shrinking parents, has turned. He used to talk about sports and music and school and really, really dumb YouTube videos. Now he says
“Don’t repeat that. You hear me?” I add that necessary disclaimer to practically everything that comes out of my mouth within earshot of my teens. I spit out this disclaimer as fast as possible, or bear the consequences: whatever I said, in jest or anger or fun or just a mom-revelation that sends teenagers into snot blowing laughter, it doesn’t matter. It’s too late. It’s already been blasted out to
Time to make the donuts. After I unplug the toilet. It could be worse. It could always be worse. For instance, the 5 days with no internet access. Which means no work communication, or rather one-way communication with no response from me. Not smart. And no Facebook for teens which is apparently inhumane treatment. But I will not complain, as we have power and water and a town still standing,
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
An irreverent storyteller with a foul mouth and big heart, Kathryn Mayer (aka Kathy and/or Kate) is a writer, humorist, and (former) activist writing out loud with humor and grace about little life moments with big ripples, including the space between parenting and aging parents, social issues, angsty reflections of midlife, and, sigh, gun humpers. Still. Sometimes a big deal, sometimes not Mayer is a national award-winning columnist, according to the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and her essays have been recognized as Voice of … Read More Here...
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