On Wednesday morning, after days of snowbound isolation, local governments are sending out a fleet of rescue vehicles for Boston parents — yellow school buses.
The big snowfall was exciting at first. But the fervor died a couple days ago. And by Tuesday, after five days at home with their children, burning through patience and vacation days, many parents were more than ready for the return to school, if only for a few days. On Friday, the board games will come out again with the start of February vacation.
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Our thanks goes out to the Boston Commissioner of Snow, but I think you need to shake up your operation. Ignoring entire major arteries early in this storm really hampered our recovery. Mayor Menino needs to take a closer look at his staff and cabinet.
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first things first. who are these parents who cant stand their own children? what, they thought that child rearing was hugs and smiles and happy-happy days??
this form of story is a standard after several snow days but really, these parents actually publicly speak as if their children are just too much for them, just like they do by mid-July when they start panting for the resumption of school. even if a parent has a "bad day", dont these parents have any sense of shame or do they just always walk around with their pity party on display ??
and as far as snow clearing, in a highly congested city with too many cars and a herculean effort to both plow streets and not bury cars until March ... enough of the whining and whinging.
from parents who publicly resent their parental duties to citizens who expect public services to be done instantly to the chicken hawks and bully babies in Congress who throw tantrums over having to pay bills they racked up over decades, this is like living in one, big, open air nursery with nary an adult in sight.
Do you have kids? I'm guessing the answer is no. None of these parents are saying they can't stand their own children. What they are saying is that days of being cooped up and everyone knocked out of their routine is trying. And it is. It's also incredibly stressful for two-parent working families - that's the vast majority of American families, for those of you who will grouse that mom should stay home - when they have to cover multiple days of no school. Employers don't care if you have three kids and the schools are closed, that's your tough problem. For single parents its even more of a nightmare. As usual, our society leaves you to "deal with it" rather than come up with more cooperative solutions that would make raising families easier.
Please don't be too hard on the parents. I got the impression that these are really nice people, those written about here. I am sure that they are great parents. Apparently the situation was too stressful.
I sometimes wish my own stay at home mother had a job, at least from 9 to 3 or something, because raising 7 kids as a stay at home mom is hard and she needed a diversion, I think. But how many people are going to do a good job as a nanny for 7 kids? Not easy to find.
When you took the job you signed on for 100 percent, regardless of which job you took: commerce or parenthood.
Now you're discovering that you don't have 200 % to give. Mothers are discovering this far more than fathers. What a depressing article.