The Park Slope Uniform

erikka wrote: [quote=WhyFi][quote=brooklynpotter]she's 14, i'm telling you.

Seeing as it's impossible to tell her age (one way or another) from the photo, this comes off as a bitchy, jealous comment... unless you happen to know for a fact, otherwise?

She's a very good friend of mine and a grown-ass woman who just turned 26, so yes, your comment is very bitchy indeed.

i believe i apologized for this, so there's really no need to keep going at me.

Seems to me as though the "Park Slope Uniform" is the exhausted stay at home Mom uniform, neh? I don't remember caring much about a mirror when my kids were babies. I even recall another Mom asking me just what it was that I was wearing.

blah, blah, blah, blah.

Or the ever popular Canadian "eh" hoser?

The Chipster wrote: My mother was always "dressed" at dinnertime. It just meant a change of clothing; a change of attitude. But since most people prefer attitude and eye rolling on this thread; I will not prolong your suffering with more about MY mother.

Know what you're talking about, it was the same in my household. The 'exhausted mom' myth is the product of self-centered yuppie moms who can't get over the shock of having to put another human being's needs before their own for the first time in their sheltered lives. This is an alien concept to a yuppie and thus it throws their whole universe out of wack once the kids come along. ](*,)

Funny how nowhere else but Park Slope do you see such a concentration of so many mothers who are constantly 'at their wits' end' as a result of their own faulty parenting.

To truly understand yuppies, one must realize that everything they say and do is contrived and intended to fit into a TV yuppie image they have in their head of how their life is supposed to be (moving to NY, etc.). Things such as wild children's temper tantrums, getting bashed over the head for an iPod while walking home from work, noisy neighbors, these things don't fit in with the NY yuppie image lifestyle, and so it makes them short-circuit :shock:

Restless Native wrote: [quote=The Chipster]My mother was always "dressed" at dinnertime. It just meant a change of clothing; a change of attitude. But since most people prefer attitude and eye rolling on this thread; I will not prolong your suffering with more about MY mother.

Know what you're talking about, it was the same in my household. The 'exhausted mom' myth is the product of self-centered yuppie moms who can't get over the shock of having to put another human being's needs before their own for the first time in their sheltered lives. This is an alien concept to a yuppie and thus it throws their whole universe out of wack once the kids come along. ](*,)

Funny how nowhere else but Park Slope do you see such a concentration of so many mothers who are constantly 'at their wits' end' as a result of their own faulty parenting.

To truly understand yuppies, one must realize that everything they say and do is contrived and intended to fit into a TV yuppie image they have in their head of how their life is supposed to be (moving to NY, etc.). Things such as wild children's temper tantrums, getting bashed over the head for an iPod while walking home from work, noisy neighbors, these things don't fit in with the NY yuppie image lifestyle, and so it makes them short-circuit :shock:

Whew. Who are you talking about? I've never encountered these people, nor have I seen them on TV.

Restless Native wrote: [quote=The Chipster]My mother was always "dressed" at dinnertime. It just meant a change of clothing; a change of attitude. But since most people prefer attitude and eye rolling on this thread; I will not prolong your suffering with more about MY mother.

Know what you're talking about, it was the same in my household. The 'exhausted mom' myth is the product of self-centered yuppie moms who can't get over the shock of having to put another human being's needs before their own for the first time in their sheltered lives. This is an alien concept to a yuppie and thus it throws their whole universe out of wack once the kids come along. ](*,)

Funny how nowhere else but Park Slope do you see such a concentration of so many mothers who are constantly 'at their wits' end' as a result of their own faulty parenting.

To truly understand yuppies, one must realize that everything they say and do is contrived and intended to fit into a TV yuppie image they have in their head of how their life is supposed to be (moving to NY, etc.). Things such as wild children's temper tantrums, getting bashed over the head for an iPod while walking home from work, noisy neighbors, these things don't fit in with the NY yuppie image lifestyle, and so it makes them short-circuit :shock:

Another thought: you may also want to seek the services of one of these PS moms who also is a CSW with an office in the garden level of a nabe brownstone. Clearly there are some larger issues of anger in need of a professionally-modified compass.

escap wrote: [quote=filmlover44]Seems to me as though the "Park Slope Uniform" is the exhausted stay at home Mom uniform, neh?

Off the subject, but is that the Japanese "neh" or the Greek "neh" that you're using? And has this now made it's way into the English language or are you trying to start a trend?

That it was a Russian "neh", aye?

I'm afraid that I've never been trendy.

Gosh, chipster, it must be nice to be so judgemental of mothers, especially given your neither a woman nor a caregiver.

Your mother might have dressed pretty but she sure didn't raise you right--you have a nasty ladyhating streak a mile wide. Not everyone has to be June fucking Cleaver.

erikka wrote: Not everyone has to be June fucking Cleaver.

Really. That would be creepy. I loved that my mom was the only one who didn't decorate their kitchen in faux-country cottage style with little wooden milk cows everywhere. Creepy.