I bitch. Please excuse me.
Had Sara's birthday party last night/this morning. I thought it would be a reasonable amount of fun. Silly me. I forgot that when a bunch of fourteen year old girls get together their brains all go out the window. Especially when they are that frustrating brand of 'unschooler' that basically means "set no boundaries for your children. ever". I hate that. An amount of unschooling is good for you. It really is. But when you take it to the point that you refuse to say no to your kids because it might 'damage' them in someway you're taking it a little to far. Bekka's mother drives me nuts. Bekka drives me nuts. All of them were driving me nuts. Thank the gods they are finally gone. I mean, I want my sister to have a happy birthday. It's good that she has more than two friends, like I did. But I want them to at least respect the fact that they are in someone else's house and that maybe we may have some different rules then them and that one of them may be not running off and hiding from everyone else when we go to the park and then not coming out for an hour and worrying me and Elizabeth (Especially because if anything did happen to them it would be on our heads.) and then thinking it was no big deal. Yes, having the children under my charge go missing is perfectly normal and obviously means they're just out dicking around and are safe. Really. There's no chance that one of them could be hurt or anything. Obviously! Why didn't I see? Goddamn kids. How can they be so stupid and so ignorant of other people's feelings? How did they end up so dumb? How can their parents corrupt homeschooling so? When I was little all the unschoolers I knew had brains! They weren't brilliant all the time, but they were definitely better than these brats. Arrrrgh!
Okay. I feel ever so slightly better. Rar.