{"id":23897,"date":"2016-06-14T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T17:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=23897"},"modified":"2016-06-13T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T23:36:09","slug":"are-you-sure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=23897","title":{"rendered":"“Are you sure?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written here about – and you’ve seen photos of – all our end-of-school-year activities<\/a>. Fun for the kids, and usually fun for the parents: yes. But with each activity comes a (sometimes long) to-do list, and that can lead to stress and exhaustion. For a long time I thought I was the only one feeling overwhelmed by this time of year – but then I came across this (hilarious) piece<\/a>, where the mom-author asks:<\/p>\n

Are you sure that I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fill out and\/or sign another field trip form-fundraising form-class placement form-book order form-class party form-popsicle request-overdue library books notice-missing library books notice-school district feedback form-one month of half-filled-out reading logs?<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Are you sure that I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t chaperone one or all eleven of the field trips between now and the last day of school? Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry, I no longer have time to hold down a job. By the way, remember all that time between January and April? What happened there?<\/p>\n

Are you sure that there isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t some sort of spring concert-adorable play-other emotionally manipulative school event to go to now or every night until the last day of school? You know, something where maybe one of the boys can wear a too-big tie or the tallest girl in class can shyly stoop down in the back row? Maybe it could be a third grade dance or a fifth grade graduation? That sort of thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And on and on it goes. So, yeh, I guess I’m not<\/em> the only one.<\/p>\n

-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written here about – and you’ve seen photos of – all our end-of-school-year activities. Fun for the kids, and usually fun for the parents: yes. But with each activity comes a (sometimes long) to-do list, and that can lead to stress and exhaustion. For a long time I thought I was the only one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-92-two-kids-may-july16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23902,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23897\/revisions\/23902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}