As the school year begins for a slew of elementary school students, let me be "that" parent. Let me be the parent that tells other parents to stop whining about how unfair their school is. Let me be the parent that tells other parents to appreciate that your school has rules the way that they do for a reason. Here are my top three for elementary school....
Allergy Limitations Seriously, just STOP complaining about this. My kids have no food allergies. Is it always convenient to avoid allergen foods in your kid's lunch? No. But guess what? Your kid may not like any sandwiches except PBJ but you can pack pasta or a bagel or some other option in that cute little sandwich box and it won't kill your kid. Pack a peanut butter sandwich and a child with severe allergy that is even in the same ROOM can go into anaphylactic shock. Seriously, deal with it. There are other options and sometimes you need to suck it up for the sake of another child. It takes a village, my friend.
4 boxes of tissue Okay, I get it. No, really, I do. I have four kids. I've been the mom that has to buy 30 boxes of tissue. It's perfectly acceptable to tell a teacher, "Hey, when you run out of tissue, PLEASE let me know and I'll bring you more then." Teachers don't always want to store it, either. That said, teachers aren't given much money to buy supplies. I'm sorry that you don't like supplying tissue for the classroom but you must remember that you send your little snotty-nose kid to school during cold and flu season when "they're not sick." Everyone does. They're at the end of that cold and they're healthy enough to go to school so you send them. Their nose is still running. Do you send them with their own tissue....how about hand sanitizer. Mm kay then. Suck it up.
Cutting around in the carpool lane Okay this is my pet peeve. It is perfectly acceptable to go up and knock on the window of a mom that decides she wants to take a phone call and just SIT for more than 4 minutes in the carpool lane. What is NOT acceptable is cutting around . Seriously, if 1-3 minutes is the difference between you getting to work on time or not, then you need to change YOUR schedule. You are putting other kids and parents at risk when you cut around traffic unnecessarily. So stop it. Either pull into a parking spot and let your kids out or deal with the extra couple of minutes in the carpool lane. Don't be that guy.
Instead of bitching about what's wrong with your kids' school, how about you praise the things that are right and know that the staff and volunteers are doing their best. Suck up your pride and know that they're kicking ass for YOUR kid too.
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