Not a huge amount of girls in my dd's year group. The ones she tends to be more friendly with will be going to secondary school after summer.
One mum is very stepford wife, all about appearing perfect, children appearing perfect, quite fake. This mum was previously head of PTA and really thinks she is queen bee.
Another group of mummies really want to be liked by queen bee mum so don't say anything when she is horrible to others. Queen bee mum has made several nasty comments about other mums.
I've always tried to avoid the whole lot of them as frankly they are a bit scary. I also don't have time for that shit. It is so childish.
The wider group of mummies has a couple that are very opinionated and absolutely loathe me because of the job I do. I am a teacher so according to them I am thick, lazy and hate children.
These opinions were decided during lockdown despite the fact I worked my arse off at that point and tried to help some with Maths set for our kids. I had nothing to do with the work our kids were set. I don't work at the school.
Queen bee also has decided I'm her next target. I'm not sure why...maybe I didn't praise her in the playground or something. Fuck knows!
I have become a social pariah though I don't think I've done anything except exist.
In years gone by it didn't matter. I met with my friends and their children.
However this year DD is wanting to go to the park etc. None of the girls are allowed near her basically because I'm her mum. If they are seen talking to my dd they are reprimanded. Dd came back from the park in tears as one of the mums had spotted my dd with the group and told the rest to play in her garden instead. Dd wasn't allowed.
No child is an Angel but from what I can gather the other kids like my dd they are just not allowed to be with her.
It isn't such an issue at school as no parents. Although queen bees dd has been learning from her mum and being quite nasty to my dd. My dd's teachers say she is polite kind friendly and caring. I've never had complaints from the school about DD. I can only assume that it is all coming from the mums.
Other girls not in this group are either going away for the whole summer, won't leave their bedroom, always gaming or chasing after boys. Dd is thankfully not at that stage.
I feel so bad for DD but don't really know how to help her over summer. I don't want her to be lonely but none of the girls she might have played with are not wanting/allowed to hang out with her.
I can take her and make play dates with other friends from other areas but she is getting a bit old and doesn't really want me to do that.
I fear she will have a lonely summer with only her younger sister to hang around with.
Younger dd has a year group with what appears to be much more normal parents. There are none of these issues for her.
I just don't know what to do to help my dd. I know everyone thinks this about their child but she is honestly lovely and doesn't deserve these adults treating her like this.