I knew going in that when the kids started school I'd have to deal with those over achieving moms. I knew it was gonna happen but I thought I'd have more time to prepare. Nope, it has started already and his school is only voluntary! He's in preschool. Does it really have to happen so soon? Couldn't I have lived in the blissful life of not feeling the need to compete with other parents just a little bit longer?
No. Instead my kid comes home today with a homemade telescope, map, eye patch, and coins all for a Jake and the Pirates themed birthday party for a kid named, yes you guessed it Jacob! And of course my kids are in love with it. And of course the mother of Jacob probably made one of these for each of the 20 kids in the class! Not to mention the gift box she sent home for Halloween with home-made items in it too. I swear, if my kid comes home with a mini turkey before Thanksgiving break I'm taking him out of school.
Why the hatin' you may ask. Jealousy maybe? Well she has the motivation to make gifts like that for her kids. All the kids are going to love the awesome things her kid comes to school with while mine comes with cookies or cupcakes? Sure I could become that competitive mom who sends even cooler things to school for the kids but what would be the point? It's not really about me and making the kids love me is it? It's about my kid having fun at school. And me not wanting to set the bar too high.
If I start making homemade gifts now its only going to get tougher to make stuff as he grows. I mean pleasing toddlers is easy what happens when he is in 4th grade and now expects me to send in awesome homemade gifts for his friends? What will I make then? And what happens when he is at the age where other kids might tease about some of the stuff I send in. I could be setting him up for disaster.
But then what if I do nothing? Then I'm the under achieving mom whose kid gets mad fun of anyways. No. That will not happen. I will be the mom who costs through never doing too much or too little. I want kids to like my kid for who he is not for the amount of cool stuff I send to school with him any chance I get. No thank you.
Oh and nothing against you moms who do, its just not for me. I'm too much of an over thinker to try to do anything like that. I over analyze and it's easier for me to not do it than to obsess over it. But seriously, if she sends a mini turkey to school I'm pulling him out of the for reals.
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