Ok ladies, I have to vent!
I have a friend who has one child. She adores her daughter and has micro managed every step of the girl's life. I have seen her bully schools, teachers, and university admissions to get what she wanted for her daughter. The daughter happens to be a sweet kid. The mother has her quirks (mothering manipulation among them).
Daughter just finished an unsuccessful rush at a major, but not super competitive recruitment. The school, in order not to frighten off pnms wrote a Recruitment brochure that, according to my friend say that it was ok to wear cutoffs and flipflops to rush. If this is true...stupid. But to move on.
Daughter just wanted three sororities and was dropped first night. (I suspect that there were more cuts than that.) Now, Mom wants her daughter to go through spring rush. Or informal rush at only the top houses. BUT she wants a friend who goes to a midwestern university to call the chapter at the girl's university to demand that they see her and give her favored treatment.
She asked me (through my daughter) to do the same from her new sorority. I was so nice and explained that my daughter is a pledge and can't do that. In short, she is trying to bully the kid's way into the "right" house.
I tried to tell the Mom the unwritten rules of recruitment which she pooh poohed. I told the Mom that the kid needed recs which the University said was unnecessary for any house.
The list is going on. I feel horrible because the girl would be an asset to a house. But where is there a site for mothers who should butt out?
...............sorry I had to vent............We have been on the phone the past two days (her dime not mine) with what can the mother do now?
Thank you all for listening. I am going to watch something on Tivo.
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