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You’re Not Alone, You’re Just a Loner-Sunday Rehash
Do you cringe when your child comes home from school with a party invitation? Do you come home from your kid’s play dates more exhausted than he is? Do you duck and hide when you run into other mothers at the grocery store? You’re not alone. Really, you’re not. You’re just a loner. According to [...]
Pregnant Busybodies-Sunday Rehash
(Originally published 1/23/09) There’s something about a pregnant woman that invites everyone she meets to talk to her. People who never spoke to her for the seven years that she has shared an elevator with them suddenly have a vested interest in her health, her pregnancy, and her life. So, since the constant heartburn, unrelenting [...]
Crotchety Old Men (Sunday Rehash)
Every parent who has been out of the house with her children has run into a Crotchety Old Man (COM). These are the retirees who are so old that they don’t remember what it was like to be a parent, let alone a kid.
I Left my Heart at the PTA
On my THIRD PTA trial, I had learned to simply put my name in the hat and wait to be ignored. And ignored I was. It was wonderful.
Until the day they sent home a flier asking for help with the fourth grade heart dissection.
Stay Away from the PTA!
Once upon a time, there was an idealistic young professional who quit her day job to spend time with her kids. She put the oldest in preschool, and thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice to join the PTA? I could spend some time at the school, helping out.” So she put on her best clothes (three [...]
Mommenfreude (Sunday Rehash)
Mommenfreude is the feeling of satisfaction that nosy mothers get when other mothers screw up.
Personally, I think this word should be nominated for “word of the year” (Remember Stephen Colbert and “truthiness”?).
Conversations with School Nurses
I never picked up a kid from school unless they: were bleeding uncontrollably and really needed stitches (twice), actually broke a bone (twice), REALLY had a concussion (once), or were so visibly sick that they couldn’t go back to class. The latter happened fairly rarely, as, being the careful mom with a microbiology background that I am, I DIDN’T SEND THEM WHEN THEY WERE SICK.
Mothers of Older Children
One more predator—the mother of older children (MOOC).
This woman preys on younger moms, giving her “advice” liberally. Freely.
Not that there’s anything wrong with giving advice. She’s been there. She KNOWS.
It’s what the advice IS that may be problematic.
The Rules Don’t Apply to Her!
These are the women who think that signs, warnings, and rules of the road are guidelines. Suggestions, really. We’ve all met them. We’ve all fumed about them. The women who zoom past the entire carpool line and let their kids out in the “No loading/unloading” zone. ‘Cause that just applies to cargo, right? Not kids? [...]
Little Old Ladies
LOL with CHF in NAD. Regardless of what LOL has come to mean in the internet generation, for those of us who speak medical, it means Little Old Lady. And it’s NOT a term of endearment. (Complete translation: little old lady with congestive heart failure in no acute distress. Come on, you haven’t read The [...]
