It’s his turn to be classroom parent, but his spouse who “hated” the job took over when he dropped the ball.
When our oldest child was in preschool, I was the classroom parent and hated every second of it. I love my kid, but I do not enjoy the constant logistics and negotiations of figuring out who is bringing the milk on which day.
So where do we go from here? It’s too late to get out of it. We shouldn’t have signed up in the first place, yes, but we somehow have to honor the commitment now.Hand that ball back to him. He made the commitment, he honors it — or he bears the consequences of no-showing the other parent volunteers, the instructors and a classroom full of little kids. Say it to him like that: “You agreed to do this, so do this — or stand in front of a roomful of little kids and tell them they’re outta luck.
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