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to think the ''im a cool mum, really i am'' mum actually is slighlty pathetic?

42 replies

badmummy101 · 30/05/2011 12:40

my cousin is coming up 15. she is on fb, as is her mum.
my cousin has just posted a whole album of photos which were a day out for her up coming birthday. her mum took her and 5 friends away. the photos are all my cousin with bottles of booze, her mum making 'fun' ( read moronic) faces, tounge sticking out flicking the V, my cousin snogging her mates, (male and female), with her mum in the back of the photo pulling more stupid faces. the girls dressed in itsy bitsy bikinis, in shite weather, boobs pushed together, this being cousin, and the mum. random stupid photos of general shite.
then cousin has made comments on the photos, as has her mum, and its shite like,
X being a bad mother fukka. and her mum commenting, not as bad as me.
or x showing us her bad thang. and the mum posting my bad thing loves a decent photo.
or x gettin a look on my mum, and the mum saying, or he cant help it, he wants an older woman to show him the way.
i have now blocked all her posts, but come on.
why is the mum acting like an over sexed teenage prat?
am i far to much of an old goat, or is that totally weird arsed behavoiur>?

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scottishmummy · 30/05/2011 18:05

haha the down wiv da kids mums are cringetastic

just makes me think listen,hen you're trying too hard,put it away you ole lush
as i frequently think when i see madonna.an embarrassing mammie if ever there was one

dolldaggabuzzbuzz · 30/05/2011 18:07

YABU for not making use of the 'hide' button!

scottishmummy · 30/05/2011 18:10

i dont hope to be cool.im boundaried and im mum

Deaddei · 30/05/2011 18:12

Hate it.
I am not on FB but have seen the attempts of mothers to be cool.
I wear Converses and J Brand jeans, but that's as far as it goes.
I am warned by dd not to be anywhere near her friends when they come round, so I definitely qualify as a mother not best friend foreva.
Yo.

helenthemadex · 30/05/2011 18:14

yukkk

BooyHoo · 30/05/2011 18:17

ooh i'd love to give converse a whirl. don't think i could carry it off though (is that the right saying?) Confused. my dcs have converse, they are 2 and 5!

NotEnoughTime · 30/05/2011 18:22

There is a woman at work (she is @ 40, her daugher is 17) who "go on the pull" together most Friday nights. It always makes me feel a bit sick TBH.

To be fair to her she is single (so she is entitled to do what she likes) but I still think its a bit much. She told me before that her and her daughter then compare their one night stands (double boak).

LostMyIdentityAlongTheWay · 30/05/2011 18:25

OMFG NOtenoughtime I just LOL at that. Yewwwwww

scottishmummy · 30/05/2011 18:33

when im 40 i dont want to be hanging out with 17yo socially
no offence to any 17yo,but hey ive been 17 it was ok.i was geeky and i dont need to shake my booty with a 17yo to regain ma mammie cred

onepieceofcremeegg · 30/05/2011 18:39

when my oldest dd is 17 I will be practically 50. I would think myself pathetic if I engaged in such behaviour. Hopefully I will have enough of my own life/friends left to not need to do so anyway.

valiumbandwitch · 30/05/2011 18:41

I'm single and I want my daughter to perceive me as being dignified and independent. I may NOT actually be 100% dignified and independent, but still....

I find people my own age (fortyish) FAR better company, more real, funnier, saner!

Can't really be bothered trying to chum up with 17 yo. NO offence to any young mums reading this. The prerogative of an aulwan tho.

GooGooMuck · 30/05/2011 19:31

It's not the age difference that is boketastic, it's that it is the girl's own mother. And it's going to be the 15 yr old that grows out of the relationship first, I'd imagine.

Are converse even cool anymore? I think its like the levis thing, where 501s stopped being cool because the teens who wore them first never stopped wearing them Grin

saffy85 · 30/05/2011 19:34

Oh dear god. What a total fucking loser. The mum that is. Her teenager daughter will no doubt look back one day and want to curl up and die with embarrassment.

Also, I doubt you're the only person that thought "ewwwwwww! how cringe worthy!" OP. Grin

MissBeehiving · 30/05/2011 19:54

That's just sooo desperate. If I was one of 17 year olds I'd be bloody mortified.

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badmummy101 · 30/05/2011 20:10

i have been out on various nights out with my mum, and my dad. but they are my parents. and those nights out were when I was also an adult. and it wasnt them trying to be young it was us havin a laugh.
my folks are young parents, and so am i. but this smacked as really strange.

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LaurieFairyCake · 30/05/2011 20:13

She's 14

Bleurgh and double bleurgh

It's not big, it's not clever

It's just cheap

theinet · 30/05/2011 21:45

i used to love my mate's mum, who was a "cool" mum. She allowed us to smoke dope in her house with her.

Still, i was always really glad my mum wasn't that cool though, it would have been cringe inducing.

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