Before anyone has a go, I really appreciate the time that coaches in grassroots sports etc put in for extra curricular activities, my dcs get loads out of them, and I know they couldn’t function without volunteers giving up their time, for which I am very grateful, but my god……
Today I sat in a hot function room for nearly 4 hours, listening to speech after speech about age groups I don’t know, clapped politely for each age group, then waited in the queue for about 30 mins for barely edible beige buffet food, thought it was over then remembered the raffle, which must have taken an hour. And then when it was finally over, the other parents looked at me like I was mad when I put my coat on to leave, as they were staying to carry on drinking and watch the sport we have been discussing for the past 4 hours, on tv screens in the venue.
Am I a shit parent just not to enjoy this sort of occasion? I know it’s a nice thing and ds got to spend time with his sporting mates, but I thought it was something we all just endured as parents and then realised today that some of them must actually actively enjoy it as a day out?