To warn you all what you say and is overheard by little ears gets repeated round the classroom

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And eventually makes its way back to the parent you were bitching about.

We moved areas and joined a new school last school year and, as one of the dc had a birthday soon after we threw a party and invited both classes to it as a chance to meet the parents. So far so good. Until you fast forward to now, my dc have both had birthdays and parties and never been invited to any and I've never spoken to any parent unless I've approached them and then they've made it clear they would rather not talk to me. I ignored it carried on with my life and was thankful I work and rarely, if ever, do the school run.

Anyway one of my cherubs came home from school just now and said that one of the children in their class has been told not to play with them because 'you look funny mum' and 'their mummy won't let them play with me but we do at lunch and keep it as our secret'

Just thought I'd warn you all everything is heard by the children and does get fed back.

That is all.

Hi op, what a lot of sad twats.

This sounds like bullying and manipulating so if I were you I would go to the school and raise this as a bullying/ slander issue.

Then realise that there will be nice moms out there who you can hook up with.

Bowden is for bores anyway.

Wow I love that dress and the model aint half bad

You sound fab, the rest of the schoolgate crowd sound shitty. Rise above it, they're just jealous of your confidence and gutted they can't tear themselves away from the blonde highlights and yoga pants.

I can't believe this

What a pack of bastards!

Do your DC have other friends in the area. Tbh I wouldn't want them around people like that anyway. Can't believe your DC aren't good enough but their parties are!

OP you are obviously too cool for school.

What a bunch of boring Stepfords. I'm very intrigued where you live now, as I thought places like that don't really exist anymore except in re-runs of Midsomer Murders! The kids sound alright, shame about their small-minded parents.

Do you really want your children going to a school where they're surrounded by such judgey, narrow-minded attitudes? Don't suppose there's any chance you could change it to one that their friends from outside school go to?

How do your kids feel about it?

Are your tattoos and piercings visible? Because as a tattooed, pierced, un-naturally hair coloured person myself I have to say it doesn't sound very conservative. Not saying there's anything wrong with how you look, or that you should change, and of course they shouldn't judge off your appearance regardless, but I suspect you don't look as 'conservative' to the general populace as you might think.

That's shite I am also (visibly) tattooed and pierced and have had several unnatural colours since dcs started school but have never had any issues over it. The most anyone has said is 'ooh did that hurt'. Our school is in a very posh village and all the mums wear designer gear and drive massive suvs and sports cars and yet they don't seem bothered that I'm not like them. It's sad that the parents at your school are so close-minded. They will never get to know how awesome you are

If your DC are reporting it back to you frequently, then I would believe it.

I feel sorry for their DC who are being encouraged to lie to them at such a young age!!

Are you sure that it's not because you hardly do the school run so they don't know you and that's why they don't talk to you?

Utterlylostandneedtogo - sorry that school run mums have been so catty.

Have experienced similar at primary school when a friend of dd repeated to her the things that her mother had been saying about dd. Mother had been in the sitting room when the friend was in bed and was overheard through the bedroom floor.

I actually approached the mother in the playground and advised that she may want to be a bit more circumspect about what she said at home about the other school kids as it was getting back to the children and therefore their parents.

The mother denied saying any such thing to which I replied "Oh that is a shame as that would make your child a very unpleasant and a liar to boot, not something that I would have thought about her."

I still can see the women's gapping mouth flapping like a fish as I walked away.

This is madness, you should move here. We have mum's with pink hair, mums that have never dyed their hair, big mums, small mums, dads, grandparents, trendy clothes, not trendy clothes.... Okay it's Essex but everyone talks to each other and if we have a night out we invite everyone whatever..........

Utterly I bet you just look like a hot professional mum, and they look like the dowdy kind, jealousy maybe, because you make being different cool, and they dont have the confidence for that.

have you moved to a village?

utterly come live near me, 5yo ds would worship you, he's most displeased I've given up dyeing my hair and that I don't have more tattoos, he's also majorly into rock/metal music.

They sound like a bunch of twats. Ignore them. I do our schools the clique-iest vilest bunch of women, one stood giving evils to my then 2wks old baby as her friends annoyed at me, I mean ffs!