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Insanity at its finest

Mothers are all slightly insane.    J.D. Salinger It's true.  We Moms know a good deal about the insanity that this profession drives us to.  There's the insanity of playdates in which another child injures yours, accident or not, and you get this roar within you that wants to be let out.  It is insanity to hold it in and instead respond with civility.  There's the insanity of the teacher who chooses to be hard on your child and the roar inches up closer to the surface, perhaps even eeks out a bit.  There's the insanity of being so thankful that school has started up again after a long, tiring summer of trying to occupy the child(ren) without relying on too much TV and yet it ends up being too much, but as you drive away from dropping them off for their first day of school you feel insane  because  tears are rolling down your face and you already miss them.  That is insanity.  There's the insanity of their grumbling and complaini...