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[quote=Anonymous]	You seem kind of nasty, op if you are making snide comments about travel sports and school performance.  It’s like going to a hockey game and saying to the person next to you “f**ck it, I don’t care how anybody plays tonight”, you’re right to have that opinion, but then why did you come? 
You kind of come across like the ‘cool moms” I’ve met, the ones who really don’t like anything or anybody.  They use their “I’m so different and so real” mindset to just be nasty in what they think is a socially acceptable way to be nasty.

I also wonder if you are a bit too chill about your kids’ schoolwork and behavior, nobody wants their kid to be friends with a kid who’s parent says “f**ck the homework” or “rules are meant to be broken” not when that kid is hanging around your kid.  I have both a family member and a good friend (two separate people) who dropped out of high school. Both are married, both doing well in their careers. Both of them have told me “my biggest mistake was dropping out of high school”.  You can’t go back and do somethings over again, op, which is why many parents care way more about their kids’ growing up years then you may realize.  I wonder if your profession has colored your viewpoint, nobody comes to your office to say “Hey, I’m having the best year of my life”.  The parents you don’t seem to like are working very hard to minimize the likelihood of their kids becoming your clients. Does that bother you? I wonder.

I also wonder if you curse nappropriately, and I say this as a mom who told my third grader a joke with the word ass in it a few days ago. You have to know when to curse and when not to, and it almost sounds like you don’t.

Also, if you’re thinking of moving, that comes through to the people you meet. Nobody wants to spend time getting to know you if you won’t be around long, and nobody wants to be around someone who makes snide comments about the area where they live or their kids activities.  I can remember as a teenager being asked to join an organization that promotes the rights of people with the disability that I happen to have.  I was seriously considering it until the person I was talking to made a snide comment about drums, an instrument that I played and that I loved. Needless to say, I’ve not joined that organization, then or now, and on paper, that makes no sense. If that person had only stopped with “enjoy your drums, if you play on a different night that doesn’t conflict with our meeting, we’d love to have you” I very likely would have joined. That wasn’t what was said, and for the past 30 years, that person’s comments have colored my view of the organization. I frankly don’t care about them.  Yes, one person has the ability to make that much of an impact for good or ill.  I relate this because you may be harming your social justice causes more then you realize. All the people you interact with will remember is a woman who curses like a sailor, sniffs at the activities they enjoy, doesn’t care much about how her own kids do, and then talk about something that they should care about more.  What a deal.

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