parents - was it fun meeting other parents as your child grew?
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dainthomas
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Most other parents are astoundingly incompetent. And of course as a result their spawn are insufferable hellions. So no, it's not fun meeting them.
Based on my parents:
Mom- Lots of drama among cheerleader moms.
Dad- Watches high school basketball and knows the parents.
I guess both are having fun.
Mom- Lots of drama among cheerleader moms.
Dad- Watches high school basketball and knows the parents.
I guess both are having fun.
HardcoreRobot
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my parents hang out with my childhood best friend and family way more than i do now
i didnt have too many close friends, but my parents got along with everyone. well, not my dad, my dad avoids people... lets mom do the interfacing
i didnt have too many close friends, but my parents got along with everyone. well, not my dad, my dad avoids people... lets mom do the interfacing
ha, ha, ha - just you wait.
Meeting other parents is like other things in life, like work or school - you sort-of know a lot of them, you become friends with a small percent of them.
My youngest just started college, so I had 19 years of being a school parent. There are a lot of parents who I recognize because I saw them daily for all those years during the school/sports etc year, but I have no idea who they are. There are lots of adults who I know only as "so-and-so's mom or dad". There are even cars that I recognize because I was in the drop-off line behind them for years and years, but I don't know the people.
I like it when people put college stickers on their car because it's nice to know what happened to the child that got dropped off at the same time as mine - even though I don't know who that child is.
One of the other parents waiting at the elementary school was a NFL player for the local team. He was nine feet tall and huge. His daughter was tiny. It was very funny to watch the other parents - mostly moms, but all of a sudden a lot of dads turned up to pick up their kids.
The one set of really good friends I made were because our kids got in police trouble, for setting fires or something like that. We had to spend a lot of time waiting around at court, school etc. Discovered we could quote the same set of movies - Python, Office Space, Mel Brooks, the Zucker films etc.
MagnusTheBrewer
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I confirmed what I already knew. Intelligence and wealth have no correlation. I always wondered why my daughters seemed to be attracted to the wealthy kids who were from totally dysfunctional families. Well, at least they grew out of it.
tenthumbs
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Interesting negative replies.
Meeting (and getting to know) people, parents or otherwise, is always a challenge. Part of it is what you think of them and the other part is what they think of you. One major lesson I've learned is that none of us are nearly as intelligent and interesting as we think we are. There's a lot of proof in that lesson in nearly every thread I read in this forum.
Meeting (and getting to know) people, parents or otherwise, is always a challenge. Part of it is what you think of them and the other part is what they think of you. One major lesson I've learned is that none of us are nearly as intelligent and interesting as we think we are. There's a lot of proof in that lesson in nearly every thread I read in this forum.
We've become much more friendly with two couples in our building since having a kid (one couple has kids the other just had one this week).
MrChad
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As young parents, we sought out other young parents when we had our first kid. It's easy to get along with people who are going through similar experiences, and we find that our friends who don't have kids yet often don't understand how drastically different your life becomes with kids.
dainthomas
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Good. If they realize how incompetent they are then maybe they can read a book or watch Supernanny or something to figure out how to suck less at parenting.
ch33zw1z
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OOo zing, nice try...but you know I meant they probably hate your guts too based on your attitude. I've met parents like you, start talking shit if a kid gets out of line and the parents don't handle it the way you would. Every child has different needs, and unfortunately not every parent can see that.
Only thing good about it is when you meet other parents and you see how screwed up them and their kids are, you dont feel like such a bad parent yourself.
I didnt have much fun with the other parents of my kids sports team. (4,5,6 year old soccer.) They were good people, but we didn't get to spend time with them other than the short practice and games.
I do have fun with the other parents that are in my kids YMCA guide program. I imagine it would be similar with boys/girl scouts. We have fun meetings, activities, and at least four campouts a year.
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