Sorry but I don’t think it’s okay for a mother to leave her children like this so often for social events and to be a social climber! And for any feminists that may be reading, I would be saying the same thing if the roles were reversed and it was a father off galavanting to social events all the time!
I respectfully disagree. There are all kinds of ways of mothering, and while we say she’s socializing—she is—she’s also working. This is how she makes money. My mom made most of the money in our family, in the 1970s, and she was also responsible for our care, so we had a daytime nanny and were very, very close to my mother, though she worked 50 hours outside the home, sometimes traveled and volunteered AND took time for herself. People in our neighborhood may have criticized her, too, though she was an educated professional in a respected, conventional occupation, which may have mitigated the snark somewhat.
I come here to catch LA’s deceit and trickery, not police her mom style. I know that many others on here agree with you. I wanted to share why I don’t. Again, with respect.