You know where I am right now? I am sitting in a parking lot waiting for my son to finish football practice. Like most of you, I worked all day, rushed home, picked him and his sister up, dropped him off, dropped her off, and now I’m sitting in this parking lot because there is no point in going home before I have to come back and pick him up.
I know others of you are doing the same thing, because I see you sitting in your cars right next to me.
Also, if you are like me, you probably have heard your fair share of how bad it is that we do all of this running around and it would be so much better if the kids just ran and played outside like they used to.
Listen. I’m not exactly arguing that point. But, I am saying - to the parents of yesteryear - and the voices that condemn all things parenting in the year 2018: that is not the way things are now.
I’m sure it was great when all the neighborhood kids played a game of baseball together until the street lights came on, but today if I want my kids to play sports, interact with their peers and learn some life lessons (which I do); I have to sign them up, pay a fee and take them to practices. And games. And volunteer.
And even if everyone only does 1 thing, all the things have multiple days and most of us have multiple children and, there ya go...we are all sitting here in our cars.
But, I feel solidarity with you, my fellow car sitters. I feel proud to be with you.
We are making the best choices we can for our kids in the day they are growing up in.
We aren’t sitting in these cars because we don’t care.
We’re sitting here because we do.
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