When Parents Get Overly Involved....

cameo43
Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:54:13 +0000

Hang in there, PhotoMom! I’m sure the roommate situation will work out. (Actually, we are dealing with one of those too…)

For making connections: I have reached out to a few parents via email from the parent directory. I’ve actually become friends with a parent who lives not too far from us, and since she (the mom) also attended the school that our daughters attend, she has shared a wealth of information. Although I’m not close enough to school to attend all the parent association meetings, I have volunteered to do a couple of organization-type activities from a distance (lining up volunteers for an event, annual fund parent liaison, etc.). I did meet a lot of parents at drop-off and Parents Weekend, but the virtual connections seem to work well too.

My advice, fwiw: Go for a walk and have some granola! I think K2 and his roommate are going to be fine. It’s amazing how we can get stresserd out by these things, and then things settle down and the kids move on merrily, leaving us wondering… ‘So, what the heck happened? Are you ok?’ etc. This has already been my experience several times this year…