To think this mum is a witch!!

[spookytwoshoes]

I have name changed as I know some mums from school are on here.

DS 9 joined a football team around a year ago, (he wasn't really interested in football before). Some friends from school were in the team and one boy in particular was considered "top footballer" within the team. Fast forward a year and ds has developed really well and is really good, so good that he won two awards at the end of the season award ceremony. This other mum made it clear that she wasn't happy but I didn't take the bait.

Team then folded suddenly and she...

Arranged for the other 6 members of the team to go for trials at another team, and told this other teams manager that ds wasn't interested

Plastered pictures of the team all over FB, congratulating them on this years success and wishing everyone the best for the future, mentioning everyone by name. Only thing was she had cropped ds off the photo so there was only 6 players left (this wasn't a mistake, she had done it on all the pics she posted)

All through this I remained silent, didn't respond. The boys BTW have remained friends at school and ds know nothing about any of the above.

Then the final straw for me was the fact that she excluded ds from the invites list to her ds's party this week. All of the school friends group were invited except ds.

AIBU to think she is a witch of the highest order, fair enough if she wants to pick a fight with me but to exclude a boy for being good at football is a very nasty thing for an adult to do.

The other parents must think she's a little unhinged, and pathetic. Who could not.

I was honestly waiting for some sort of spellcasting and weird shit to go on . The word you want is bitch OP, and yes she is.

Not on this scale, but there is a mum at school who doesn't like my DS. Won't say anything positive, even if he has achieved something she will find a way to turn it into a negative, she won't invited DS around even though I have heard hers asking for mine, she won't invite mine to hers birthdays, she constantly compares and wants to know what levels etc my DS is at. She won't ever like anything I put on Facebook and I know she is on there a lot as she likes every single thing her other friends put on. She has made a few bitchy comments and I'm finding it very difficult to bite my tongue.

She is jealous. She doesn't like the fact that my DS does better in school than hers and is better at sports. I don't really care about the children that are doing better than DS, makes no difference to my life, as long as my child is doing well then I'm happy with that but she doesn't think that way and has completely singled my child out. Even my friend has noticed so it's not just me being paranoid.

I'd delete this mum, she obviously isn't a friend and she is being very deliberate about it. Screw her. What a cow to be treating a talented child this way.

I'd swap the W in your title for a B to be honest!

You need to confront her away from DSs but with other mums of the team. Open with "I am concerned about the exclusion of DS from team activities and feel we need to talk about this". This makes it a group discussion rather than just between the two of you. Tell them your son has noticed he has been excluded and that you can't blame him, and when you looked at the facebook page photos you are just pleased he can't see those. She should not get away with this so don't let her.