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

[Anonymous]

I had my kids 1st grade open house yesterday and I was one of the few parents that didn’t decorate my kids locker. When did this become a thing? Every mom was armed unicorn or decorate wrapping paper to put in the inside of the locker, LED lights, cute shelving etc. who the hell has time for that? I can’t even remember all the supplies I need to bring. I find situations like this-where parents do this-kids don’t seem to care and are standing around waiting and looking bored annoying. These seem to be the same mom’s that would do their kids homework.

[Anonymous]

Kids have lockers in elementary school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids have lockers in elementary school?

Seriously, where is this? My kid shares a cubby in SACC, but that's it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had my kids 1st grade open house yesterday and I was one of the few parents that didn’t decorate my kids locker. When did this become a thing? Every mom was armed unicorn or decorate wrapping paper to put in the inside of the locker, LED lights, cute shelving etc. who the hell has time for that? I can’t even remember all the supplies I need to bring. I find situations like this-where parents do this-kids don’t seem to care and are standing around waiting and looking bored annoying. These seem to be the same mom’s that would do their kids homework.

That's news to me as I have not seen this at our school. I know some kids decorate it themselves but never seen the parent do it for them.

[Anonymous]

I'm going to get flamed for this but I mean it: These moms/dads etc. need jobs or other things to do. Beyond the weird, competitive, helicoptering, it's attention-seeking. It's not healthy.

[Anonymous]

School name?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to get flamed for this but I mean it: These moms/dads etc. need jobs or other things to do. Beyond the weird, competitive, helicoptering, it's attention-seeking. It's not healthy.

People are really overusing this word "helicoptering". You walk your sixth grader to the bus on orientation day and it's helicoptering. You enrich your kids over the summer with a few worksheet pages and it's helicoptering. I get that parents need to back off but "helicoptering" and "tiger mom" is insulting and used too ubiquitously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to get flamed for this but I mean it: These moms/dads etc. need jobs or other things to do. Beyond the weird, competitive, helicoptering, it's attention-seeking. It's not healthy.

I just put too much attention into reading this post. But it did take me 3 hours to put together the school supplies and that was after a very nice grandmother purchased everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to get flamed for this but I mean it: These moms/dads etc. need jobs or other things to do. Beyond the weird, competitive, helicoptering, it's attention-seeking. It's not healthy.

+1. I swear, I read posts here and feel like they're describing another planet.

[Anonymous]

I would never take it upon myself to do this, but if my kid wanted a decorated locker and it’s ok with the school I could be suckered into it. As far as time, I would let my kid pick out some stuff online within reason, order it, and spend no more than 15 minutes after visiting the classroom at Open House or BTSN installing it.

It’s funny to me when people try to insult others by implying that they have too much time on their hands when they do something that doesn’t appeal to the person doing the insulting.

[Anonymous]

A locker for a first grader. Lol. That, in itself, is sort of silly but, of course, I'm lacking the context as to why this little ones need lockers in first grade.

Heck, yeah, I would help my 1st grader decorate a locker. Lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids have lockers in elementary school?

Seriously, where is this? My kid shares a cubby in SACC, but that's it.

+1

DD has a hook with her name over it. That's pretty much it.

[Anonymous]

I've seen this happen too! But in middle school where they have lockers, not elementary!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never take it upon myself to do this, but if my kid wanted a decorated locker and it’s ok with the school I could be suckered into it. As far as time, I would let my kid pick out some stuff online within reason, order it, and spend no more than 15 minutes after visiting the classroom at Open House or BTSN installing it.

It’s funny to me when people try to insult others by implying that they have too much time on their hands when they do something that doesn’t appeal to the person doing the insulting.

According to some folks, we're supposed to throw up our hands, step back and detach ourselves from our children completely the minute their little feet enter a school building....Let Them Handle It!

Even the teachers don't do that with their own kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids have lockers in elementary school?

Seriously, where is this? My kid shares a cubby in SACC, but that's it.

+1

DD has a hook with her name over it. That's pretty much it.

I took the afternoon off earlier this week for a volunteer event before school starts--I briefly saw my kid's class and met the teacher, but I didn't think to look for her cubby. So I have no idea what she has,lol.