tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685759408151060633.post9105093437107697440..comments2023-06-20T14:15:43.589-07:00Comments on Steingruebl World Enterprises: If You Were a Good Mom, You'd Have an UlcerSWEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567663448928052303noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685759408151060633.post-2038380774395477752008-03-08T09:11:00.000-08:002008-03-08T09:11:00.000-08:00Wow. That's all I have to say.Wow. That's all I have to say.Niki Naevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03198414475711264644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685759408151060633.post-83806806629679982382008-03-07T17:15:00.000-08:002008-03-07T17:15:00.000-08:00Oh the tales I could tell about parents at private...Oh the tales I could tell about parents at private scools. We at my school are a liitle confused about whether we are still a sort of hippy-dippy crunchy granola school as we were 20 years ago or a school for the financially gifted so we have a wide range of parents. There is the painfully honest, if misguided, mother who declares that one can be a good professional or a good mother and she has chosen the former (more schooling required, you know)so she has hired a decent nanny and lets it go at that. (Actually she has a wonderful nanny who goes above and beyond over and over and over again.) We have your crazed mothers who still hold their darling little boy's hand as they walk him in to school in 8th grade, carrying his designer back pack for him, of course. We have the mother who wants her child to go to fancy, sleep away camp (at Harvard or Stanford or Yale) but will, naturally, move there with him so that he won't be lonely--he's only 12, you know. We have the parents who hardly notice their kids and those who hardly notice any child but their own. ("We told the children that this school was made just for them. Please call it the "[fill in child's name here] School" when you talk to them.") And we have lot and lots of wonderful parents who volunteer when needed and step back when they are in the way, who support their child's education financially but also emotionally and sanely. You will meet them all most everywhere you go. It's a lot like high school or even kindergarten--you have to pick and choose your friends to find the very, very best. Good luck. You are doing this mothering part very well--I am impressed. Let the others see what a cool person you are and how great Elise is and they might just change their ways. (But don't hold your breath on that one.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com