Dear Snarky, My husband’s stepsister is lying about being a teacher and I need a way to stop her. Due to a lot of schools deciding to start the school year virtual she is advertising […]
Category: School
I’m Not an Expert But I Play One on the Internet
A week or two ago I wrote about how the most fundamental of science knowledge and common sense seems to be eluding a significant swath of the U.S. population. Mainly because so many people are […]
Dear Snarky – I Tried to Give a New Mom at School the Inside Scoop and it Backfired
Dear Snarky, A new family has moved into our neighborhood. One of the kid’s is in my daughter’s class. I met her mother and she seemed really nice. The problem is there’s a mom at […]
Dear Snarky – I’m Being Shunned For Bringing Cupcakes to a School Party
Dear Snarky, I’m being shunned at my son’s elementary school due to having the “audacity” to bring mini chocolate cupcakes to the first grade Halloween party. I never received the link to the online sign […]
Dear Snarky – The Teacher Returned Our Class Gift
Dear Snarky, I’m super angry with my child’s teacher. For Valentine’s Day the moms went all out and collected money for a really nice piece of jewelry from a popular retailer for my daughter’s 3rd […]
August – The Bipolar Month
I have a love hate relationship with the month of August. The hate comes, I think, from being water-logged. By now I have clocked so many hours in a pool or at a waterpark I […]
School Blues
I’m about to doing something that terrifies me. I’m going to bad mouth my school district. (Just to get the courage to say that I had to fortify myself with not one, but two Rice […]
Dear Snarky – What Should I do About a Mother Who Cheated to Get Her Kid a Citizenship Award?
Dear Snarky, I know it’s summer but I’m still angry about something that happened the last day of school. My son is in elementary school and every year they have an awards ceremony. This year […]
Back-to-School Night: The Teen Years
There are three primary reasons I go to the high school back-to-school night. The main one is for visual evidence of what the school personnel looks like. So, when a child starts describing their […]
The Idiot’s Guide to Picking Up Your Kids From School
I thought 10 Steps to a Successful School Drop Off would have been enough information to help parents safely navigate the treacherous school drop off/pick up waters. Sadly, dear friends I was wrong. So, because […]
Five Ways to Get Out of Volunteering At Your Kid’s School
It starts in late summer with emails from the PTO alerting you to various “fulfilling” volunteer opportunities awaiting you at your kid’s school. On the first day of your school your child’s backpack is stuffed […]
Dear Snarky – WTH on School Fundraisers?
Dear Snarky, I am new to the whole elementary school thing. I have twin girls in the first grade and I’m stunned by all the fundraisers. Since August I have bought gift wrap, candy, magazine […]
Snarky Goes to Pre-School
Finding the right pre-school for your child is the first step in your journey of micro-managing every educational aspect of your kid’s life. When they’re 3 you’re interviewing child care directors and pursuing the nap […]
Snarky Saves the World Part 1
Based on my real life with some very ill-mannered aliens thrown in. It’s only the first month of summer and so far I’ve sat through a trio of action adventure movies. It’s not that I […]
Parent Teacher Conference – By the Numbers
The Parent Teacher Conference is one you either look forward to because your seven-year-old little bundle of joy is reading at a college level thus providing you with the opportunity to sit back, sniff an […]
Rantober
In a shock to no one I’m ranting again. My Halloween candy stash has been forcibly removed from my home. At first I thought it would be a good idea. A Pre-Halloween cleanse, if you […]
10 Steps to a Successful School Drop Off
Well, you asked for it. So here it is – An Idiot’s Guide to Dropping Your Kids Off at School. 1) If you feel the need to “make out” with your children before letting them out […]
The Sports Parents Hall of Shame (The Elementary School Years)
To celebrate this season of recreation here is the definite list of irritating sports parents. I, after much research, that has resulted in bleacher butt, have categorized the parents into eleven different groups of “species […]
The Mom Bomb
There are friends and then there are Friends. I can count my Friends on one hand. These are the people who just don’t have your back. They have your back and are covering it with […]
The Suburban Anthropologist’s Definitive Guide to the Elementary School Mother (Revised for 2013)
As another school year is beginning I would be remiss if I didn’t share this compelling research completed by my keen scientific mind (and by scientific I mean snarky). I consider myself one of the […]
Snarky in the Suburbs 