Playground mommies

Since the "mommy dating" post has proven the most popular, I give you here a second installment on the subject. Welcome to my world of playground insanity.

First, I will start you off with a question. Those moms who are at the playground with their kids, but are on their cell phones - whom exactly are they talking to? They walk around with their headsets glued to their ears, rarely say anything, and once in a while you can see them nod. This is NOT how, in my experience, you hold a conversation with anybody. My theory is that they are calling some kind of 1-900-mom-xxxx hotline. It would be a daily pre-recorded message that would be telling them something hypnotic, like "you are the best most beautiful, non-fat, efficient, caring and loving parent ever, keep up the good work, pat yourself on the shoulder for being the "it" mom today". For all I know it could be any kind of a 900 number :)

But you know what? I have news for these freaks - the reason you take your kid to the playground is NOT to ignore them. How about actually playing with them for a change? Watching so that your kid doesn't wander into the path of my daughter's swing would be outstanding! Bringing some toys so that your kid doesn't whine for Eva's stroller or ball or bubbles would work too. How about helping them up the slide or chasing them around? I dont' mind sharing toys and snacks, but if I see the same kid coming to the playground with nothing day after day I get angry. But we will talk about sharing in the next post. For now I am suddenly struck with an idea of actually starting a 1-900 service for mom advice. It would talk about all kids of bad things that OTHER kids do, so that you feel better about your own parenting situation. After all, there is nothing like a little bit of schadenfreude to make your day.