Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
General Parenting Discussion
Reply to "Anxiety over parent “social engineering”"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]The problem is when you’re an outsider and pick a school for the academic reputation /facilities / “opportunities” without understanding how low your family will be on the totem pole. You’ll be graciously invited to (or even host) whole-class events and spend half the time enjoying others’ company—and the other half listening to stories about get togethers, trips and classes it’s blithely assumed you won’t be a part of. Much harder when you’re a sahm because it’s unavoidable and play dates are a daily thing. If you’re working you can either genuinely not engage or pretend you’re too busy to notice. I think this parent scene culture shock is more prevalent in DC because there are so many outsiders. Move to town, benignly tour St Pats, Potomac or even a nice catholic school, and not realize what you’re getting into. [/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
