But when did school become a year long gift registry?

There was Christmas, teacher appreciation week, her birthday, end of year, classroom supplies, fundraiser baskets and some spring thing I still do not understand.

The class mom keeps sending reminders with suggested amounts. Suggested, my ass. It feels like a bill with smiley faces.

I already donate snacks, tissues and enough glue sticks to repair a small house.

Now they want twenty dollars per family for a spa gift card.

Can I just have my kid write a nice note, or does that make me the cheap mom?

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His coach screamed at him for missing a ball and made him sit out the rest of practice. He is nine.

In the car my kid tried not to cry and kept saying he was sorry. Sorry for what? Not being a professional athlete before he has all his adult teeth?

I emailed the coach and said the yelling was too much. He replied that kids need discipline and parents today are too soft.

I am not asking him to hand out trophies for breathing. I am asking a grown man not to humiliate a child over a ground ball.

Do I pull my son from the team or go above the coach’s head?

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Do you make them finish what they started, or accept that sometimes a kid simply hates soccer?

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This one is for candles. Last month was cookie dough. Before that, wrapping paper. Before that, a fun run where I paid money so my child could run around the same field he already runs around for free.

The prize for selling thirty candles is a plastic drone that will break before dinner.

I work full time. I do not want to pressure coworkers, relatives, or the woman who cuts my hair into buying a twenty eight dollar candle called Coastal Homework.

I sent twenty dollars directly to the school and returned the packet untouched. My son says this means he cannot attend the prize party.

Was I supposed to participate anyway?

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