you knwo you are a pushy mum when

[LaCod]

....

[LaCod]

you cour the class list lookign fo kids whosenames make them sound nice.

[LaCod]

.

[Gudgeon]

You correct the spelling and grammar on the school dinner menu.

[LaCod]

oh yes ery good

[SmileysPeeples]

You get your son a maths tutor.

I've just done this.....never thought I'd see the day...

My name is SmileysPeeples I am a pushy mum.

[Gudgeon]

...and write complete book reviews in the home/school reading book.

[Slouchy]

You worry that dd has no extra-curricular activities on both weds and thurs. Will this make her unfocused?
(Not me BTW)
You practice putting uniform on and off and eating lunch out of a sandwich box for a week before your child starts reception (this was me)

[LaCod]

god i cringe at my ranting in ds1s reading book

" he stil deont knwo "the""

[DarrellRivers]

What names sound nice then?
Persephone Fiddlybottom?
go-on, we need examples

[Pollyanna]

you check what books your child's friends are reading when they come for tea (I've been very tempted to do this...)

[LaCod]

ohi do that
i was senthom ds2s girlfdiends book and opened it before i realsied it was HER nameon the front
it had her readng age in it

LESS tha ds2s har har
i todl hermum
she laughed

[oliveoil]

oh good god, are they all competitive?

dd1 starts on Wednesday and she can't write at all and all her friends can (unless their mums are signing cards pretending )

sigh

[ladymuck]

Your ds2 has a girldfirend? I thought that he was at the age where girls were another species?

[LaCod]

well a girl who loves him
he is not bothered he says

olive i forge ds3 s
he did baout 3 thankyous theni wrote the rest in my lfet hand

[LaCod]

adn ds1 coudlnt write either
he coudl scrawl hsi name

why havent nursery taught her to write a name?

[oliveoil]

HA

ok then

I will do that from now on

[Gudgeon]

No way can they all write, oliveoil.

DS2's writing still looks like a drunken spider fell in an inkwell and then tottered off, and he's just going into Yr 2 (sigh).

[LaCod]

am taking ds1 to haev a pre 11 plus tutoring asessment tomorrow
am a psh y mum

[oliveoil]

they have tried to get her to do her name but apparently she cries and gets upset

I do it at home but she gets in a strop and screws the paper up

I envisage a lot of threads with me whining in the next few weeks

[TellusMater]

How old is he cod?

[LaCod]

ds1 just 9( but year 5)
ds2 7 on wed( but year 2)
ds3 mentalist 4

[ladymuck]

You know you are a pushy mum when...

you don't tell other parents which music teachers you're hoping to use in case they get in there first;

you google your dc's teacher to check that she is properly qualified (why are so many reception teachers on Facebook?);

you make your dc take in some fudge from your holiday (along with the diary they've done over the summer);

you've been working on the "key words" for the last 3 weeks.

[Hurlyburly]

You every so patiently remind the teacher to fill in the homework books.

You complain that the set meal for lunch on Thursdays is hotdogs.

You go in and have a session with the teacher to explain that your child is coasting along lazily because he can't be bothered and want to identify a plan of action to sort it out.

You go and have a word with the teacher because for four weeks in a row the maths homework is not challenging enough ...

I am cringing at myself now. Literally cringing.

[Slubberdegullion]

You wonder if you can get a position on the PTA when your child isn't due to start until September 2008.

[LaCod]

god my kids teachers are on there too
am alarmed