To Think This Family Is At Every School

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They are. I have two children, moved around, been to lots of schools. They are always there. They turned up last night to pre-school parents evening.

Child: stunningly beautiful, trendily dressed, appallingly behaved, can't read.

Mum: Used to model, tall and blonde, dresses like a pole dancer, ignores child.

Dad: Surfer shorts, Blackberry, longish hair, dabbles in property/import-export.

AND, by the time the child leaves school this has always happened:

House repossessed

Dad has affair/tax investigation

Child goes to Art School.

No that doesnt ring a bell but I tell you what we get a lot of at our school....

Mums who look down their noses at me (and others who make an effort) when I drop DS off at school either looking glam (on way to work) or in my work out gear (go to classes sometimes before work). They seem to resent anyone who actually makes an effort to look half decent without turning up to school looking like they have been dragged through a hedge backwards.

Ds is very stunning but well behaved and good at reading and my line of work is import/export. I do "pole fitness" although I dont wear my pole shorts up school but I am tall and blonde.

People make assumptions about me without bothering getting to know me. However, DH wont have an affair so I will sleep easy!

[hhmm] What's wrong with art school anyway, some of the best people went there you know...I quite frankly don't have time to make such observations/ judgements, OP, I'm too busy trying to control my badly behaved children.

Don't see how you could go from pre-school to art school in a couple of years (especially not reading) unless you are talking about schools that go from 3-18 and you observe child''s entire trajectory

BettySwollocks, I'm so sick of giving a fuck about the school gates. I'm a single parent and Imake an effort to look my best, but I think the respectable types keep me at a polite distance. I do sometimes stare a moment too long at the mums who are off to work, but only because i'm thinking 'lucky thing, wonder if i have the nerve to ask her give my cv in to hr'

Band - I dont give a fuck about the school gates either - I get there just as the kids come out, stand well back, get DS and run!!! In reception and maybe years 1 and 2 it bothered me...come year 4 I couldnt give a flying fart, lol!!!

Someone once said that they said about me, they dont like me, they dont like the way I dress, I am up my own arse and think I am better than them.......this said person always makes a beeline for me, we do chat and I did once ask her if she said this...she was mortified and in all fairness the one who told me is a bloody shit stirrer!

what's an "idlewife"?

I imagine it would be a very judgemental name for a wife who doesnt go to work....but I could be wrong!!

[BW suspects she may fall into trophy wife status,because of au pair]

It is actually very difficult to get into art school so DC must have something in their favour and self disciplined enough to get a portfolio together.
I can't say that I recognise them.

oh totally, timing it to arrive just moments before my dc starts wondering if i'm going to show up and she is 8. I cared for the first few years. I tried to make friends. I optimistacally expected that I would. I now realise that those nice ladies are not really in the market for a single parent friend.

perhaps my own fault, I sent my dc to a school I knew was nice.

Nope not here either.

ps, and I'm sure i'd get on better with the mums who work (although I never see them) because they aren't all obsessed with how their husband likes his steak done (well) or how good he is at barbecueing, or if he's a morning person or not. Sorry to say this but a lot of those idlewives are obsessed with their husbands!! I'm sure their husbands don't stand around the watercooler at work saying 'oh Fiona only drinks licquorice tea'.

I sound a real bitch. ah well.

What was this thread about again? to begin with

I have to say, in my experience I have never come across the family you describe but I have met loads of lovely, interested, friendly parents at the school gates. Maybe that's cos I'm oop North and we are known for our friendliness

Oooh I know this family. Excpet wife has just been binned off for model number 2 :(. Also kids were in nursery full time from age of 2 even though mum didnt work. Never really got that

Nope

i think im probably the one who people think looks like a pole dancer, and my kids have a step-dad although we're not minted, i pay a lot more attention to my kids than most and they can read......2 out of 4 aint bad :D lol everyone likes me tho so i'm doing ok

I wish I were a trophy wife.

It would please me to think DP had won something other than a gilt cup for darts.

Kreecher - what's a HI-SO mum? Not heard that before.

no siree.not my school
hotchpotch middle class working parents/professionals and housewifes
no pole dancing
no affairs i know of
most exciting thing is someone gets parking ticket at drop off

The only people that bother me at school are unfriendly people.

the joy of working is i hardly ever do drop off/collection.so miss all the politics and who said what to whom.i attend sports day,xmas party etc and throw a few get together

don't buy that she looks like a pole dancer - these mums can be quite glam but classy glam usually. You sound a bit jealous TBH, but then i'm an 'idle wife' and all that (but not glam or pole dancerish though husband does wear the shorts and carries a Iphone - 2 actually (Blackeberries are so passe).