You Don’t Have to Win the Party

“This can sometimes make the other person feel like a bit of a jerk, but guess what? That’s not my problem!”

Let’s follow up with my dilemma from last week, which was about me figuring out how to navigate the hard-partying kindergarten parents at our son’s school. This was the gist:

During an afterschool pickup, one of the moms asked me if I was going to game night, and I mumbled an excuse that we were too stressed out because of the WGA strike. “Well, isn’t th…