{"id":11204,"date":"2011-01-25T13:21:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T21:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momservations.wordpress.com\/?p=11204"},"modified":"2011-01-25T13:21:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T21:21:51","slug":"giving-birth-doesnt-make-me-room-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momservations.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/25\/giving-birth-doesnt-make-me-room-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Birth Doesn&#8217;t Make Me Room Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Momservation: <\/strong>Giving birth made me Mom \u2013 not Room Mom, Team Mom, Carpool Mom, Snack Mom, or Super Mom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u263a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u263a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u263a<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11205\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/momservations.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/rollie-fingers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11205\" title=\"rollie-fingers\" src=\"http:\/\/momservations.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/rollie-fingers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How come no one asks Rollie to be Room Mom?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How come no one ever asks me to be coach?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I may not have previous experience playing organized baseball, basketball, football or soccer. But I didn\u2019t have previous experience organizing parties, field trips and snacks for dozens of children and, yet, no one had a problem asking me to do that. Repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>Does something about me look like I\u2019m better suited to creating a snack schedule than a pass route?<\/p>\n<p>Does the fact that I am home for my children instead of behind a desk in an office building somehow qualify me to make costumes for the school play instead of a batting order and team line-up?<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I have more knowledge in football (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Madden_(American_football)\">John Madden <\/a>has nothing on me), experience in rugby (Most Valuable Player in Smear the Queer 1981), and skill in endurance training (I\u2019m a triathlete, but I think keeping up with the kids gets me in better shape), than most dads who think they are qualified to coach because they once wore a jock strap.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, I got a big car so my skill set must be carpool.<\/p>\n<p>I love my kids. I love doing stuff for them. I love being involved. I want to help.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t love that because I\u2019m Mom being involved gets translated to Room Mom, Team Mom or Carpool Mom.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, they now call these positions of organization Room Parent, Team Parent and Carpool Driver. So far though, no one has asked my husband to volunteer for any of these jobs. And he\u2019s a much better sewer than I am.<\/p>\n<p>He was asked to coach baseball again, though. Doesn\u2019t even know who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfingers34.com\/\">Rollie Fingers <\/a>is.<\/p>\n<p>Pitched for the <a href=\"http:\/\/oakland.athletics.mlb.com\">A\u2019s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sandiego.padres.mlb.com\">Padres<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com\">Brewers<\/a> 1968-85. Among being a great relief pitcher and having his jersey number retired by two teams, he was known for his handlebar mustache. His daughter, Laurel, was in my brother\u2019s 4<sup>th<\/sup> grade class.<\/p>\n<p>Bet he wasn\u2019t asked to be Room Parent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom goes on rant about always being asked to be Team Mom but not Coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,165],"tags":[258,259,260,2,261,3,262,263,6,28,264,265,266,267,268,269,270,271],"class_list":["post-11204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting-2","category-parenting-humor-2","tag-carpool","tag-carpool-mom","tag-coaching","tag-family","tag-john-madden","tag-kids","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-oakland-as","tag-parenting","tag-parenting-humor","tag-rollie-fingers","tag-room-mom","tag-room-parent","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-snack-mom","tag-snack-parent","tag-team-mom","tag-youth-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Giving Birth Doesn&#039;t Make Me Room Mom - Kelli M. 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