Mother's Clubs?

Greta
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:50:38 +0000

Years ago, my mom joined the ‘mother’s club’ when my brother joined a fraternity at his in-state public. I think all moms were automatically members and it was left to each to figure out how much they wanted to participate. From what I remember, it was primarily a social group, meeting for lunch or in the evenings a couple of times a year in various locations around the state. Their major focus was supporting the fraternity chapter’s designated philanthropy with their own low-key fundraisers. When the university had a ‘moms weekend’ in the spring, the moms group would have their big meeting of the year and also make a small gift to the fraternity, like a picture for the living room or new utensils for the kitchen. Twenty years later my mom still vacations with good friends from the group. So, my take is that even now in this age of supposedly over-involved parents, such an organization could be something nice for the moms and not helicoptering (is that a new verb, lol.)