Yes, I was THAT parent who decorated, went home to pick my daughter up, and drove her back to school. In her early years, it was up to the parents to decorate lockers, and since I throw myself into mostly all celebrations with abandon, I would arrive at the school at 7:30 am with bows, tape, wrapping paper, and balloons. (As it was when I was in middle and high school, a gazillion years ago.) Thirteen year old girls are not the most reliable of people, so even though my daughter expects (and reminded her friends) to decorate her locker, I may have a child come home from school today extremely happy…or extremely disappointed, a thought that breaks my heart.ĭecorating lockers has always been a ‘thing’ at my daughter’s school. Since she’s a girl at an age where, you know, her friends are her friends one day, and then, meh, not so much another day, I’m worried it might not happen, and this worrying has taken up most of my energy today. Her locker which hopefully will be decorated today by her friends, since her birthday was over the weekend. Today, I sit here, my heart pounding, extremely worried, wanting to bite my nails, because of my daughter’s school locker. However, I’m even more concerned about actual lockers. There’s been an insane amount of talk about locker rooms recently, thanks to Donald Trump’s so-called, ‘locker room talk,’ which upset me greatly.

Locker decorations for birthday