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[quote=Anonymous]I was the mom who was cordial but not friendly chatty at pickup with a couple of specific moms over the k-3 years. They could have written something like OP about me

I’m not saying I handled this perfectly but here is the reason I was cool to both of them:  their sons were incredibly cruel to mine, repeatedly, in an intentional manner designed to hit below the belt. They called him fat a$$, fat fu(k, etc and when given any opportunity (like say weighing beans vs rocks in science class) they’d make comments like “oh bobby better not get on the scale because he’d break it since he’s so fat.”

My kid is/was plump and this was devastating to him because it shaped other classmates view of him.

The kids did other things that were relentless but subtle and flew under the radar of the teachers, so it was something that couldn’t successfully be mitigated. If they stopped calling him fat because they were instructed not to by the teacher, Then they started calling him something else.

In both cases, they were so Machiavellian about it and so talented at what they were doing that I was certain they learned this kind of shit at home. I’m not saying that their mothers told them to go to school and act like this but what I’m saying is something happening in that household created kids like this

Maybe it was their mother or maybe it was their father but I sure as hell wasn’t about to be buddies with their mother just to keep the peace in the pick up line [/quote]

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