Administrative Support

Confession time!

I think I need to hire a secretary for my four-year-old.  Or would executive assistant be more appropriate? 

I always thought that parental complaints about organizing the schedules of your dear offspring were nothing more than self-absorbed puffery.  AND THEN, as is true in so much of my personal parenting history, I was confronted with reality.  Surprise!  The turning of the seasons/semesters bring with it a huge rush of insane jockeying to get everything scheduled, paid, organized and account for all the secondary details to boot.  Honestly, even though as a parent, you do all this work to ensure the happiness and health of your child, there’s no denying the fact that all this tedious administrative work is a real pain in the ass!  

And lest anyone perk up here and ask why I don’t share the burden with my spouse…well…it is no reflection on his abilities but rather my pathological need to control certain organizational aspects of life.  It’s the same drive that makes me jealously guard the right to organize (control?) the garage storage shelves, the linen closets, and our bookshelf. 

So the logic follows that  I basically do this to myself, and it makes me nuts, but I can’t seem to let go.  Sounds like a cry for (pharmacological) help to me!  Anyway, I think the most annoying part is that it requires phone calls.  (Synchronous communication technologies…yuck!)  I’m not phobic about phones or anything but I absolutely HATE calling people I don’t know.  Clearly, I was never cut out to be a cold-call marketer.  Not to mention the awkwardness of trying to fit in all those calls during business hours.

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