School is no longer about learning. We register our kids for school, hoping that they will become kind, likeable, intelligent little humans who will soon make our world a better place, but that is no longer the case. The moment we take our kids to their first kindergarten round-up, we enlist them in a lifetime of contests and conformity. School is now about who is the best, who has the best clothes, who has the most successful family, and who can participate in the most activities. School has also become about shaping our children into little carbon copies of one another. It is no longer okay for kids to express themselves creatively or emotionally. School is more like prison rather than a center for learning. It is a place to punish children into submission and conformity in hopes that they will all behave and act as the teachers feel that they should. They should not express themselves in any way the teacher does not like. Recently, my son got into trouble at school for humming ...
Can we all just take a minute and acknowledge that being a parent is hard? Like, why do we always have to compete with each other? I cannot make my two boys gourmet meals every day. For lunch, we had peanut butter and jelly, Cheetos, and a Capri Sun. Did this cover the food groups? Nope. It didn’t even touch on half of them. I didn’t cut the sandwiches into cool shapes and the Capri Sun probably had too much sugar in it. But I don’t give a shit. Why? Because momming is hard! My kids are wearing clothes that I purchased from garage sales and shoes from Walmart. Why? Because they destroy everything that touches their body and that shit is expensive! Are they any less happy because I didn’t pick up their clothes from Baby Gap or wherever parents buy expensive shit for their kids? Nope. They don’t have a clue, because I’m trying not to raise assholes for kids. When I sit at the school, waiting for my son to come outside, I observe the kids around me. It is interesting to see ...