Moms, do you drop off and pick up your kids from school every day? Whether you are a proud Stay at Home Mom or a Working Mom that takes extreme measures to juggle your schedule for pick up duty, here’s my urgent plea for you to stop! It is not because of guilt that I make this request. My own son is picked up from school by our babysitter almost EVERY DAY, but I do not feel guilty.
Moms, I truly understand that you have the best intentions, but please stop corrupting my son. He is only six. There is still hope for him to grow up believing that both men and women have really important work to do in their professional lives; that being Mommies and Daddies is a really big and special part of life, but there are other interesting aspects too; that Mommies and Daddies share in the responsibilities and joys of parenting; that parents get to choose how they divide these joys and responsibilities; that there is no default woman’s work.
Suzy Ogé is an American born business woman living in The Hague, The Netherlands. 
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Um, I hear you Suzy, but I would add another nuance: instead of only ‘us’ staying away from the playground perhaps more dads should know where the playground is? In my opinion only then will kids get that men/women/mothers/fathers have multiple valuable roles ….
Then of course I have to ask myself … what brought this one … is there a follow-up blog
Deborah
.. what brought this ON is what I meant to say …
I’m so glad that you asked. Louie has brought this up 3 times in the past week. Daddies go to work and Mommies are all at school. He even mentioned that his teacher refers to the last period of the school day as “juste avant l’heure des Mamans”. The Mommy Hour!!