What's So Hard About Being On Time?

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Having suffered from being late most of my life, looking back, I am ashamed. It is one of the most inconsiderate & disrespectful, let's not forget to mention, passive-aggressive ways of behaving. Venturing to go the distance, I admit in my own past patterns, it was narcissistic. Being late is all about me, it does not take into consideration the party on the other end it effects. Those were my single "me" days. Fast Forward:

Marriage & a child later, being late is not just about me anymore. My son does not deserve to inherit his mother's easily remedied bad habits, he deserves to be on time. As a mother I owe my child this small gift. It shows I care about him, his education, his teachers, his friends & behaviors he will learn through my actions (his future). Being on time is being respectful. I respect CMS (his school), his teachers & his peers. Every institution has rules that are expected to be abided by. Our children's schools are institutions. If we can't follow the rules as parents, what sort of example are we for our children? A trickle down effect, most likely in a society that is already crumbling. Why can't we do the little things that make the big picture better? It takes nothing to be on time. If you have to wake up earlier, do so.

What I find infuriating about families being late for school:
1/your own children suffer, them, not you
2/my child pays the price for your child being late
3/all the other children loose valuable learning time for your child's disruption of the classroom
4/if all that is going on in the classroom with 25plus other children, what do you think the state of the teacher might be? frustrated, distracted & unable to keep a learning flow going in her own classroom, that's just the tip of it
5/office staff who need to escort late students to their classrooms, they actually have a job besides ushering around your late child or children, they have an office to run
6/when drop-off is 8:15 to 8:35 for class to begin, what does it look like driving by for prospective new families or persons who have appointments or observations within the school office & there is no one there to assist them for the staff are being late child escorts, not good
7/the entire system fails

You see it is more than just about you, you have created a heaping mess by your selfish actions for the rest of us. Maybe now that you see a bigger picture you can wake up 10 minutes earlier, for the sake of the rest of us. This brings up the topic of principle.

Do we lack principle today? A topic of another future discussion.