Chilly

It mostly chilly and sunny or chilly and cloudy lately. It isn't raining, which is weird.

In other news, my kid is having trouble at preschool and I don't know what to do about it. Apparently she is introducing some salty vocabulary to other attendees. Not cuss words, I don't think, because clearly the school doesn't allow that. A mother complained that her kid was saying things that she heard from my kid, but wasn't specific. I don't know which words in particular, so there really isn't much I can do about it. It was probably about death or something.

I've dealt with this from other kids, but they were using oppressive language. I may allow some choice language, but I do not allow that shit. After repeating that girls can't marry girls and boys can't marry boys, I informed her that not only is this untrue but hurtful to people we care about. Then my friend talked to her to tell her how that affects her and her girlfriend. So now she'll school other kids.

I feel like this is part of sending your kids to school. They come back with stuff you wish they wouldn't. I'm not keen on all the princess fascination (read I hate the gender and class implications), but I never thought about trying to tell the teachers to tell parents to have their kids stop talking about it. It seems like such a passive way of going about it. The deal is this, you have influence over your kid. If you don't want your kid to say shit, tell her not to say it. Don't put try to put your morals on me and my kid to protect yours from whatever you don't want her to hear. It's not going to work, and you're not teaching her anything.

I can't help but feel like it's classist anyway. Clearly this other mom feels entitled to dictate how other people can act. I'm clearly the poor mother there, as I work and don't drive a fancy car. I'm not only unmarried, but about a decade younger than most of the parents. God, how many times is this going to happen in Maddy's schooling?