parent student disconnect

I e-mailed the head of our program about yet another event that is focused on times that are great for single students but suck for parents - cocktail hour. I sent him a very friendly e-mail about how this is really tough for parents with kids. I then said, very lightly, that please don't ask me to initiate more parent friendly events because I'm too busy with my kids to organize it. He sent me back a very frustrating e-mail - asking me to come to his office to talk about it/organize something for families - that's the point - they should have paid staff people doing this. He also mused that he had kids when he was in grad school. Even though Chris is with the kids most of the time, I just didn't like hearing this from a guy, for some reason....

At least in our social networking class we've been talking about this challenge a lot - how student parents don't have as many opportunities to network...