Oh dear, dear social media....How I love thee...and hate thee...and make fun of thou users so, so frequently...
I know it's wrong to judge in any situation, but Facebook just makes it toooooo easy.
Our first official snow day is on the books for today. Along with many other moms, I find it annoying that there is no actual snow on the ground. School was cancelled due to the anticipation of driving conditions. I've always been a fan of how they did it in Ottawa. They would cancel school bus transportation but not school. So, if a parent needs to go to work anyway, they can drop their child off at school and pick them up. I'm not sure if the day counted against a student who could not make it to school but I'm pretty sure it was unexcused.
Anyway, back to social media. I still find it remarkable how social media has the effortless ability to reconnect people from all stages of life and all parts of the world. Because of Facebook, I have been able to reconnect with my childhood friend who lived down the block and an entire community of people I went to camp with when I was a kid (Diabetic camp can wait for a future post).
I also find it equally remarkable that so many people use social media to commend themselves for how awesome they are while inadvertently criticizing the moms that are not organizing closets and making schedules for learning activities and teaching quantum physics. And while I may be admitting my own inadequacy, I refuse to post my family accomplishments and act like it's just another normal day. I think I'm a pretty fantastic mom, but I guess I just don't feel the need to broadcast it online since I feel that it does more harm than good. At the same, I won't "un-friend" these people for some reason. Maybe its my fascination with people that are very hard to like.
For example, we have spent no less than 2 hours of the morning working on a pretty bad ass shoe box diorama. And I may go so far as to put a pic on Facebook of said masterpiece. But what I won't do is post the picture and include a quote that says something like, "So excited about the shoe box diorama that Meghan chose to do after she completed her math practice first thing this morning!, this kid just doesn't stop with her intellectual development!". What I will probably post is, "Check out Meg's sweet shoebox diorama, control freak mommy had a hard time keeping my hands off of it!". What's the difference, you ask. The difference is that I'm proud of my kids, without a doubt. But the only thing bragging about it does is make other moms feel like crap. They are reading through Facebook updates with coffee in hand and kids watching TV and thinking "ugh, I should probably do a better job today". When the truth is, that its a snow day. And all of our kids are going to be fine whether they watch TV all day, practice math problems, or fight their siblings all day.
Which by the way, I'm pretty sure my kids will be accomplishing all three.
