Scary Mommy
Aug 26, 2022
 
 
RANT ABOUT OBNOXIOUS BEHAVIOR
Did Things Get Hairy Post-Camp This Summer For You, Too?
 
Now that school’s starting up and we can all take a breath, did you send your kids off to camp this summer? If so, did things get a little hairy when they came back? That’s what happened to Jackie Carroll. She writes: “My goodness I did NOT send them away like this. They are SO tired. And grumpy. And sensitive. And sweary. They are uncharacteristically obnoxious, especially the 11-year-old.” Luckily, she’s a teacher and has the professional experience to understand why — give it a read to find out more. 

— Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor
 
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IT GOES BY SO FAST
This Is The Last Year I’ll Have Two Kids Going Back To School And I’m Kind Of Dying Inside
 
Today, Katie Bingham-Smith is thinking about a big milestone that’s not too far down the road: “My daughter was lying next to me on the sofa yesterday when she reminded me it was time to go back-to-school shopping. That’s when it hit me that she’d be a senior this year, and it would be the last year I’d see more than one of my kids walking into school together after dropping them off. It’s going to go by fast, too.” Are you in the same spot?
 
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