...or should I say the over privileged that tend to flock here. This county is full over over privileged, self important, unrealistic, grown children. I've always known that, but it was home, so you deal. Now that Little Queen is in school I have been introduced to an entirely new monster. The stay at home/ room mom. Now I am a stay at home mom myself and I feel very blessed to have the life I do. We gave up many things and lived with more debt than we could have if I worked. Never assume that just because someone stays at home with their kids its because they just don't need the money. Caviat aside this stereotype is exactly what you get hit in the face with come time for school parties.
With my own school and child I have only even heard from them once. We started that school right before the "Winter Party" so I emailed the head mom (who by the way took almost a week to get back to me) and asked if I could contribute any last minute items. I was to bring TWO foam poster boards, as large as I could get them, for the "pin the nose on the snowman" game. Sure whatever, I don't have anything better to do then to spend $17 on poster board. But wait, why not just use regular 99 cent poster board and tape/sticky tack? Because it looks "more professional" to use the foam board and let a bunch of rowdy, hopped up on sugar 1st graders play with sharp push pins. SERIOUSLY? Although I do have to be thankful that our school does things differently than a friend of mine's school.
At this other school (in the same district) the Room Monsters are everywhere. At that school (and possibly ours but I just was never informed) they like all the classes in the same grade level to have the same holiday parties. So they have one head coordinator room mom that leads with all the other room moms from the 4 or 5 classes. She hosts these "planning" meetings where she tells people their ideas don't really matter because her and her closest MFFs (don't even get me started on that one!) have already planned everything. Seriously? If that's the case why make us come, just send an email and be done with it. Anyhoo, for the "friendship day" (Valentine's Day) party they wanted to play this horrible, disgusting, degrading game. You take donuts (after the hugely, sugar-coma inducing snack) and tie them to broom handles. Then you make the kids LIE ON THE GROUND ON THEIR BACKS (in a school that has recently had a lice outbreak) while you DANGLE the donuts over them and move the stick back and forth to tease them and make it harder for them to EAT THE DONUTS WITHOUT USING THEIR HANDS. Got a visual of that? Teasing the children and making them BEG for food (sounds a little prison campish to me) while forcing them to eat off the floor. WOW.
The best part comes next. One of the teacher's nixed the idea and they had to throw it out. Instead of just being adults and going with it, the email chains started. We got to see grown women type statements like "WOW who told" and "guess the fun police stepped in". (Fun police: way to teach your children that cops are heroes to serve and protect us. Get the idea in their heads young that police only ever do things to annoy people.) So my friend and her co-room mom went to their teacher and said they wanted to do their own party and the teacher agreed and possibly even sounded relieved. Get this though, the next day the principle called the room moms and told them no, because it was important for unity that ALL parties be exactly the same. Why? What purpose does it serve to make everyone do that exact same thing the exact same way. We never did growing up, would it really damage our children if they don't have the same party as the kid that plays on the playground with them?
The unrealistic nature of these women combined with how entirely out of touch they are completely floors me. You'd think I would be used to it after ten years.
Coming soon: Driving Laws in West County (with pictures)
For those of you that don't know. MFF means Mom Friends Forever. Its like BFFs for those that are too old but still want to seem hip to the younger generation.
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