Today I wish I was late to pick up my daughter from school instead of early.
I found out who was feeding my kid all the crap about not having to do chores. She actually had the nerve to come up to me and address the matter. She said that children weren't to be raised for "little maids" and that I was being cruel to my daughter. She ended the whole tirade by telling me that she was going to call CPS. I laughed. I shouldn't have, but I did. Honestly, if CPS took that call, I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't even bother to come out to check it out. I would welcome them anyway. They wouldn't be doing anything that isn't done on a yearly basis for my son, anyhow. They come in, see that nothing is wrong with my home, see the chore charts or whatever method I am using to motivate my kids at the time and see that they are wasting their time.
I don't know if I should complain to the school, or if it would do any good anyway. This lady is a parent volunteer and pretty active at the school. Still, she's just a volunteer.
I drove away from the lady without really answering her, which probably made her mad, but nothing that would come out of my mouth at that moment would have been good.
I went home to set my daughter down with her snack and her homework...then I would have followed it by chores except I got a phone call. Completely unrelated, but it required me packing up the girls into the car and going to Micah's school.
Micah hates the bus. I really don't blame him. His school gets out at basically the same time as Becca's (I think there's a 3 minute difference). I have to pick up Becca, so he rides the bus. The problem is that Micah sits and waits for the bus to get there for 15 minutes, then has an hour long ride home. No one should have to be tortured that long. He isn't allowed to bring a game system to play on the drive. He just has to sit there. He finally decided that enough was enough today and refused to get on the bus.
I am already not in the best of moods, and this is not making it better. I get to the school, which is a 15 minute drive for me, and there I find him in the office. I get the teacher to come to the office to talk to me...not that I'm incredibly easy to talk to at this point, but I do need to know the specifics so that I can address them. I try to be as nice as possible, and the teacher is really apologetic. She knows that Micah is probably going to be worse from now on because she called me...she still had to. Now my son knows that all he has to do to not get on the bus is to frustrate his teacher. Ok, at least she gets it, but it really isn't doing her any good if she doesn't act on it.
So, that was my day. Aren't I just the best parent ever? It's been confirmed over and over today. Oh, yeah, and because of this whole mess, the twins missed their nap, so they are going to have a super evening. I think I'm going to go tenderize some steak...
5 comments:
Sorry you had a rough day.
It amazes me that there are people out there that take it upon themselves to be in charge of your children's chore schedule...in your previous post I had assumed that Becca was talking to other kids her age about their chore schedules and decided hers was to rough - that's shocking that it was another parent!
Hope tomorrow is a better day.
I seriously think you should talk to the principle. A school volunteer has no business sowing discord in a family. And, yes, CPS would laugh about this kind of complaint and would never act on the call.
If your going to get a CPS visit for chores for your kid, then my kids should just start looking for foster families right now. I make my kids pick up dog crap. And I don't allow them to play video games until rooms are clean and homework is done! Worst.parent.ever!
You are a saint. If that lady would have come up to me, I would have slapped her. Wouldn't have been my finest moment, but there you go.
Oh Boy! Hey, can I have the number to this lady?!? I wonder if she's been telling my son that he shouldn't have to do chores? I'm sure that if she were to come in and see the twins "doing dishes" or "scrubbing the toilet", she would Freak!!
Do you think she called CPS?
That is seriously rude behavior on her part. You DO NOT ever criticize a parent in front of their child. Even if it is going to be helpful to the parent you don't say it in front of the child.
I have been waiting since I read this the first time because I haven't been able to come up with something nice to say. I always try to see the other persons point of view and in this case I just can't see it.
So I just piety the children she is raising to be completely dependent on her. They will have a very hard life ahead. Not to mention the heart break and suffering she is bringing on herself.
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