An open letter to the mom who brings a story book to read her kids at the playground,
Suck it.
Why are you reading to your children in public? You’re trying too hard. Everyone knows that books are to be read as quickly as possible and half-assed during the last 15 minutes before tucking your little monsters in bed for the night.
Parks are supposed to be a book-free sanctuary, a place where parents can go to wear their children out with minimal parental effort and parent/child interaction.
The mom checking Facebook while her kid eats cigarette butts knows this unwritten rule. The circle of moms bragging about their hybrids understand this. You don’t bring books and interactive activities to the park. What’s next? A craft project with glitter glue?
I really don’t even think you should spend too much time pushing your kids on the swing. It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. The sooner they learn how to pump their legs.
If you want to be a good parent, you do it in the privacy of your own home.
Daddy Drinks 
Hear hear! I can’t stand when the kids head to the swings and start begging for me to push them. I’ve had to put into place the one under duck only rule. After that they’re on their own.
Ha! Yeah, we call it underdog, but you’re right. we didn’t come to the park for me to get a workout. run up and down the slide, damn it!
yea I have a 5 yo that refuses to leg pump WTF! It angers me in a way that is unnatural. Or is it?
WTF is right. pump those legs, kid.
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Sounds like you’ve encountered one of those helicopter parents that carry hand sanitizer everywhere and freak out every time their child encounters a puddle. Rub some dirt on it, lady. Let him be a KID!