Perspective: Don’t laugh at the oldest mom in the room. She knows things you don’t.
By Mary O'Connell May 3 at 10:30 AM I pitied them when I was a child, the old moms ambling into the class parties and Christmas pageants and end-of-the-year concerts in their owlish glasses, crepe-soled shoes and polyester pantsuits. I might have danced around my bedroom at night singing along to the 1970s anthem “Free to Be… You and Me,” but I knew that it was wrong to have a mother old enough to be a grandmother.
It’s possible I am the oldest mom in the entire elementary school, though I won’t be attempting to verify this. There will be no breezy quizzing of older-looking ladies at afternoon pickup. Roller-skating to DeBarge was the best, am I right? Did you perchance watch the televised black-and-white moon landing from your playpen?
An impromptu package of powdered sugar doughnuts at the gas station? Stay up past your bedtime to finish your movie on a school night? In fact, do not even have an actual bedtime? Ride your bike before doing homework? Read comic books instead of cleaning your room? Fruit snacks instead of a snack of actual fruit? I’m your go-to gal for all the above. Whenever the answer can be yes, the answer is yes.
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