Comments on: further proof of my awesomeosity

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:02:00 +0000

Good for you! I am a stand in the rain mom too!

By: Willow

Willow — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:57:13 +0000

I stand behind you standing at the bus stop with the kids. I always think it is strange when I drive by and parents are sitting in their cars with their children or watching their children stand there. Weird. Can we teach children further how to be totally inactive? Besides TV and driving somewhere that is only a few blocks away…I thought one of the things we need to survive is air and according to my mom it has to be fresh and it has to be from outside, otherwise little people and big people get “cranky”

By: lightspring

lightspring — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:40:36 +0000

Hmm, I think that may mean I’m helicoptering too by standing out there with her. Ugh. I honestly don’t think I need to, but otherwise there would be days in which I’d never leave the house at all.

By: Gef, the Talking Mongoose

Gef, the Talking Mongoose — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:13:55 +0000

Ah, i miss those days of walking the kiddo to school. We lived two blocks from his elementary school. I was surprised that other moms on my block DROVE the two blocks! Grades 6 through 12
were at a private school 15 miles away that had no transportation to my town so we drove in and back every day. Ugh. But at least we had plenty of time to talk.
My husband cued me in to the phenomenon of helicopter parents. I used to wonder why they sat in their cars while the kids stood on the corner. What were they afraid of? Alien abduction? Kidnapping by zombies? Were they afraid their own personal kid would meet a dire fate if they weren’t there to put a stop to whatever horrors were lurking in the cul de sac? Why don’t they get out and wait with their kids? Are they giving the kid “space” by sitting in the SUV 20 feet away?
it’s bizarre. I grew up in the suburbs and I used to wait for the school bus on the corner. When it snowed we stood inside Jimmy Dadio’s vestibule. Our mothers wouldn’t have dreamed on watching us wait for the bus. There used to be more of a divide between adults and kids back them. Kids had their lives and adults had their own stuff to do. Parents who hovered were considered weird and overprotective. Now everybody hovers.

By: superblondgirl

superblondgirl — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:48:31 +0000

Hey, I think it’s awesome. I’m a standing-in-the-rain type of mom, too. Mostly because I just like the rain and I don’t mind getting wet (though I would mind less if I had a clothes dryer in my house instead of only at the laundromat).