This Ain't No D@mn Pep Rally! *Reader Warning*

I was raised with a military Dad in a home where children were seen and not heard.  I am not saying that him being military was his motivation for raising us to sit down and shut the fuck up.  I am sure it was because he was an alcoholic and us kids were a real buzz kill.  Or, I could probably come to the conclusion that he had PTSD or maybe even bipolar.  Lord knows, Dad did some crazy shit when we were growing up.  


Before you read any further,  you should be warned if you are easily offended or if everything you hear somehow is a personal attack on you, this probably isn't daily reading material you should partake in.  That said, this is no way intended to offend it is just my thoughts on a particular subject.


I was skimming "Mommie blogs" when I ran across a rant made by a "Mommieblogger".  She was at a library "story time" activity with her young child.  She described the activity more of a playgroup than reading hour.  She explains that the younger than preschool aged children were a bit precocious and another Mommy in the group took offense.  So much so that she turned to her and complained about "how some of these Mom's just let their kids run around".  She wanted to call her a "Motherbitch" but bit her tongue.  I just found my new name! Now, maybe it is because of my raising but there is a time and place for everything.  What you let your kids get away with now will be carried with them throughout life.  


I am not claiming that I am some super Mom where my kids don't get out of line. They absolutely do.  Sometimes, I want to hang them up on the wall.  My 14 year old son has ADHD and until about a year ago was off the chain.  A teacher's nightmare.  I put him in a regular daycare when he was three just so I could socialize him because I knew what school would be like for him.  I was getting calls daily because he couldn't stand in a single file line without fidgeting, sit in the reading circle without rolling around on the floor and had regular outbursts.  Thank goodness he is growing out of that.


My friend, LaVon recently posted on her facebook wall the following:

"To the bad moms who watch their sons bully and fight other kids and say nothing: You gonna be the same ones that, when your child grows up and is killed violently, be on the news talking bout what a good person he was, how he never hurt nobody! Think about that while your tryin to make him hard! Yeah I said it!"

The Moms she refers to are the same ones that think it is so endearing when their two year old won't stop pulling on the shirt of the lady seated in the booth directly behind them at O'Charleys!

I have a lot of teacher friends.  My sister-in-law is a teacher.  I hear the horror stories.  These people trudge through college racking up never-ending debt in order to teach.  They do not go to a technical school to get a certificate in "early childhood development".  Their job is to educate, not mediate.  

I remember watching a home video many years ago of one of my nieces at a Christmas program.  I think it was kindergarten.  I can't remember anything in that video except watching her being constantly corrected; an aide actually had to sit with her to keep her seated criss-cross applesauce in the circle.  

So when you decide that your two-year old is just being cute.  That "cute" toddler quickly becomes an unruly six year old.  And I promise, bystanders never think your kids are as cute as you do.  Not that bystanders have the right to pass judgement but in a public arena they will.  It is human nature.

~signed Motherbitch