Meet the Slacker Mom
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this:
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Peg Tyre
Newsweek
Updated: 12:17 a.m. PT Feb 13, 2005
Feb. 13 - You won’t catch Muffy Mead-Ferro at a toddler fitness class. When it comes to enriching after-school activities, she’s not ferrying her kids to traveling soccer or French lessons either. She lets them amuse themselves in a mud puddle in the backyard instead. This Salt Lake City mother of two says she isn’t feeling a shard of guilt about her choices. “We’ve raised the bar too high on parenting,” she says, “And squeezed out all the fun. Someone has to say, ‘Stop the Madness’.”
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Posted by in 22:29:32
She’s not all that revolutionary is she? I should have wrote a book and then I could be a web exclusive on MSNBC.
Hmmm … I never took you or your brother to traveling soccer or French lessons and look what fruitcakes you both turned out to be.
Love you, hon!
I think there’s some validity to her thinking, but I also think she goes overboard by limiting her kids. If her kid wants to be a rock star, is she not going to let them take piano lessons? But, I’m all for not filling the schedules and instead dancing in the rain or playing in the mud.