We have been agonizing again about whether we should put Herself in school this fall (this year she'd be in first grade, which is a full-day program and therefore might be worth the hassles), and we keep thinking, well, it would be great to get to know some more parents with kids our kids liked, but...honestly, just because people have kids the same age as mine doesn't mean we have something in common. (People with whom I have something in common who have kids the same age as mine, OTOH, I immediately feel like we have a lot to talk about!)
And if I feel this way...well, like I say, I can totally understand people who say, look, kid, you get on the bus and you go away for six hours of state-funded social time, and then you get back on the bus and come home, and that's it. Because the cultural gulf between me and most parents of small children is so broad as to feel completely daunting, and I'm a white middle-class woman who lives in the burbs.
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Date: 2009-03-05 04:45 pm (UTC)We have been agonizing again about whether we should put Herself in school this fall (this year she'd be in first grade, which is a full-day program and therefore might be worth the hassles), and we keep thinking, well, it would be great to get to know some more parents with kids our kids liked, but...honestly, just because people have kids the same age as mine doesn't mean we have something in common. (People with whom I have something in common who have kids the same age as mine, OTOH, I immediately feel like we have a lot to talk about!)
And if I feel this way...well, like I say, I can totally understand people who say, look, kid, you get on the bus and you go away for six hours of state-funded social time, and then you get back on the bus and come home, and that's it. Because the cultural gulf between me and most parents of small children is so broad as to feel completely daunting, and I'm a white middle-class woman who lives in the burbs.