What’s up with the mom’s decorating their kids lockers?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t do my kids’ homework, but when they were young, I did help personalize their cubby or locker space. It’s a small, fun thing to do that helps them feel a sense of ownership over their surroundings.

Seriously? This sounds like a bunch of New Age-y mumbo-jumbo. "Sense of ownership over their surroundings? What does that even MEAN? It's their locker. It's their. They'll feel ownership. Done. Not everything has to be overdone-done-done to the hilt. This is ridiculous.

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This is the mom who will trick out her DD's college dorm room to look like a child's bedroom, all in the name of it being a "small, fun thing to do."

And decorate her first cubicle and plan DD’s entire wedding and commandeer DD’s eventually baby registry...

The only person I feel sorry for is the future DIL/SIL[/quote]

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Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

My kid only has a cubby at her school, and the kids there don’t have lockers until middle school, but I guess I don’t see the big problem with shoving an LED light and some unicorn stickers in a 6-year-old’s locker?

It’s hardly comparable to decorating a college student’s dorm for them, which...yikes.

[Anonymous]

Another reason I am glad I have a boy.

[Anonymous]

Never heard of this but sounds ridiculous. My first reaction was also that these women need jobs. I suspect their dialogue with their husbands goes something like: "honey, have you though that now that the kids are in school, you could go back to work? You have that fancy grad degree and it would be nice to have some pressure taken off my income." "But honey, you have no idea how time consuming it is to have kids in school. There are so many responsibilities. Who would take care of all these things if i were working full time? Like today, i had to spend a half day at school for back to school obligations."

[Anonymous]

Schools administrators have a role here, and they are neglecting their role. Traditions shouldn't get started at all, certainly shouldn't snow-ball with more added year after year, without consideration from school administrators. Every idea, just because it "shows they love their kid", isn't ok. It becomes a circus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t do my kids’ homework, but when they were young, I did help personalize their cubby or locker space. It’s a small, fun thing to do that helps them feel a sense of ownership over their surroundings.

Seriously? This sounds like a bunch of New Age-y mumbo-jumbo. "Sense of ownership over their surroundings? What does that even MEAN? It's their locker. It's their. They'll feel ownership. Done. Not everything has to be overdone-done-done to the hilt. This is ridiculous.

+1

This is the mom who will trick out her DD's college dorm room to look like a child's bedroom, all in the name of it being a "small, fun thing to do."

And decorate her first cubicle and plan DD’s entire wedding and commandeer DD’s eventually baby registry...

Oh, maybe that is a poster meant when she said she drove 4 hours to help her DD start her first real job (20:05)

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/749027.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of this but sounds ridiculous. My first reaction was also that these women need jobs. I suspect their dialogue with their husbands goes something like: "honey, have you though that now that the kids are in school, you could go back to work? You have that fancy grad degree and it would be nice to have some pressure taken off my income." "But honey, you have no idea how time consuming it is to have kids in school. There are so many responsibilities. Who would take care of all these things if i were working full time? Like today, i had to spend a half day at school for back to school obligations."

Possibly. A college friend spaced out her three kids so once the eldest went to full time 1st grade, she had a newborn. Her youngest just started half day K and she says she can’t work because the oldest needs her to help him apply for college. I love her, but I don’t get how she thinks she and I got to adulthood with our moms working FTOH.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t do my kids’ homework, but when they were young, I did help personalize their cubby or locker space. It’s a small, fun thing to do that helps them feel a sense of ownership over their surroundings.

Seriously? This sounds like a bunch of New Age-y mumbo-jumbo. "Sense of ownership over their surroundings? What does that even MEAN? It's their locker. It's their. They'll feel ownership. Done. Not everything has to be overdone-done-done to the hilt. This is ridiculous.

+1

This is the mom who will trick out her DD's college dorm room to look like a child's bedroom, all in the name of it being a "small, fun thing to do."

And decorate her first cubicle and plan DD’s entire wedding and commandeer DD’s eventually baby registry...

Oh, maybe that is a poster meant when she said she drove 4 hours to help her DD start her first real job (20:05)

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/749027.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of this but sounds ridiculous. My first reaction was also that these women need jobs. I suspect their dialogue with their husbands goes something like: "honey, have you though that now that the kids are in school, you could go back to work? You have that fancy grad degree and it would be nice to have some pressure taken off my income." "But honey, you have no idea how time consuming it is to have kids in school. There are so many responsibilities. Who would take care of all these things if i were working full time? Like today, i had to spend a half day at school for back to school obligations."

Nice, but I'm a sahm and dont do this stuff. Most of the "trying to make up for no quality time with the children by decorating their lockers and lording over the unimportant stuff" moms i know work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t do my kids’ homework, but when they were young, I did help personalize their cubby or locker space. It’s a small, fun thing to do that helps them feel a sense of ownership over their surroundings.

Seriously? This sounds like a bunch of New Age-y mumbo-jumbo. "Sense of ownership over their surroundings? What does that even MEAN? It's their locker. It's their. They'll feel ownership. Done. Not everything has to be overdone-done-done to the hilt. This is ridiculous.

+1

This is the mom who will trick out her DD's college dorm room to look like a child's bedroom, all in the name of it being a "small, fun thing to do."

And decorate her first cubicle and plan DD’s entire wedding and commandeer DD’s eventually baby registry...

This is why they have Bring Your Parents to Work Day now.

Please tell me you're joking.

[Anonymous]

In middle school, when it was a student's birthday their friends (one or two ), would arrive early to school and decorate the birthday child's locker - the outside of the locker. I'm being critical here on this thread and I had forgotten I'm guilt. My DC's birthday is early in the Fall and out of fear that the decoration wouldn't happen, I helped make it happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lockers in first grade, must be private school.

Weird. We have them in our public ES, which was built in the 60s.

[Anonymous]

I saw this at DDs middle school at orientation. We are at a small private in metro DC. I did get shelves for her locker to help with organizing but no wall paper, rug or chandelier. I asked if she wanted to decorate hers. She said no she needs the room for her books and papers. My panther mom heart was happy that she is focused on the right things.

[Anonymous]

My DD is going into 5th grade, which is MS at her school. She pronounced this summer that she would NOT be decorating her locker. I didn't even know kids (or, I guess, parents) did this, but she certainly had strong feelings about it. I guess you're either a locker decorating type of girl or not, but who cares either way?

[Anonymous]

So let me get this straight. If a mom helps decorate her kid’s locker at school orientation, it means she doesn’t have a job, has too much time on her hands, will scheme to make sure her kids are popular, will follow her grown children to work some day and deck out their cubicles, will be the MIL from hell, and is a champion of social injustice? ?

Signed, a mom who doesn’t decorate lockers but doesn’t give a shit if other moms or dads do.