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My kids were lucky if I managed to write their name on their lunch bag. Some of these are incredibly intricate and beautiful. But it would never have crossed my mind to criticize parents who had the talent to send their kids off with such creations. How petty and ridiculous.
Does this mean I was criticized for making all the kids clothes including sweaters and socks when they were little? Did people see it as my attempt to show off or to put down those who couldn't sew or knit? If they did feel that way nobody ever expressed it. We all parent in different ways. An artist does necessarily have a monopoly on creative way to show affection.
And really, who uses paper bags every day anyway? My kids have always liked lunch boxes or bags which had room for a thermos or containers for pasta salad, etc.
A friend of mine makes adorable lunch bags for her kids. Every cartoon character you can think of, robots, dinosaurs, all kinds of things. They're awesome. She draws very well and I tell her she could make a living doing it.
The napkins from your article are very impressive. I wish I could draw like that. I'm a doodler. I'm not surprised some moms got all crabby about them. The Mommy Wars are all some of them have.
Haters gonna hate. I like to think most people would be impressed with the artistic gifts of others, without feeling that it's somehow a negative statement on their own parenting. I'm not going to decorate lunch bags or napkins myself, but I would love for my kids to see that art isn't just something you see in a museum, it can part of your everyday life.
While I have no hate here, I do get the irritation with blogging "look at me being perfect" mommy culture. A back lash is coming.
Yeah, I do understand that. My Facebook friends don't usually post too many things like that, so I haven't seen a lot of obnoxious blogs. From time to time, one of my cousins shares a blog she reads. It's preachy stuff about parenting, and the subtitle is something like, "Yeah, we're THAT family." Very much an air of self-congratulation. My cousin's kids are all superstar overachievers and I admire them for it, but she has major help shuttling them around, as well as a trust fund. My mom has also told me her children are mouthy and I know one of them is in therapy for behavioral issues. That's not the image she puts on Facebook, but that's OK--I don't gripe about my kids on Facebook either.
My sister had a brief stint of making cunning bento boxes for her son, charmed by supermommy blogs. Then she realized how much money and food she was wasting!
As a working mom with an extremely demanding job, my daughter still remembers the one time in elementary school that I had time to put a note in her lunch bag or school bag. It was the last day of 4th grade.
I do stuff like that on my outgoing mail to friends is that a bad thing ? I sure hope not and I hope they enjoy getting those letters it is like a smile in their mail box.
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