I don't get the need to do lavish all out parties for kids. Is it for the kid or an opportunity to get your friends together and brag about your home and ability to make pretty little treats and sweets? I think the latter. I prefer family celebrations with the occasional party. After all, a large party is just the invitation for more crappy and unwanted gifts to come into your home. Do I really want any of my kids to receive 12+ gifts every year? Do the math on that and you will see that will be 72 items entering this house annually. WHAT? No.
Bento boxes are another pet peeve of mine. So here sweety, have this fabulous and creative lunch I made for you to show off to your friends. Makes me look like a GREAT mom, right? I don't however have any interest in spending time with you above and beyond what I have to so please take it to school. Yes, one hour on a lunch I can do. Spend all of my time during the day with you? No. I have a latte to drink as I walk through Target talking on my cell phone. Then I need to go home and make a crafty fall decoration to put on display so that I appear to have it all together as a mom.
I really can't stand these moms. As a homeschooling mom it burns my butt to hear "stressed" out moms complain about how long the summer is, or how they can't wait for Monday mornings. Seriously? You dislike your kids that much? Please do not pretend to be "that" mom because you can pack a stupid Bento lunch, yet you haven't read a single book to your kid this week. Please reconsider what it means to really be a good mom. I am sure Target has a book on it somewhere. Teach your kid to read. Analyze poetry with your teen. Study the habits of that cool spider out in the yard with your son. That is living. Forget the lunch you spent hours designing-they did.
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