AIBU to think this mum was attention seeking?

[Sisinisawa]

I arrived early for the school run today so sat in the car waiting like everyone else.

Well, everyone except a mum, new to the school this year, who got out of her car, opened the boot, took out a hula hoop and started writhing around with it doing some form of exercise/dance. On the pavement.

I mean, WTAF?

Who does that?

What say you Mumsnet? Attention-seeking or mad as a box of frogs?

Maybe she's advertising her class?

God this thread has depressed me this morning. Far too much bitchiness.

I agree with the MH posts being far more unacceptable than hula hooping on the pavement. There was a thread of posters diagnosing someone with bipolar based on a snooty, judgy OP's views on someone else's behaviour.

This is why I live in the middle of nowhere so I can be as eccentric as I like without curtain twitching mumsnetters watching!

If we all just let each other live a little, maybe the world would be a nicer place.

I'd like to teach the world to sing... in perfect harmoneeeeee

This morning, I'd swap a clean bill of mental health for the ability to hoola hoop.

Can anyone explain how to do it?

Maybe she'd make a good friend. Have you thought about that? Sounds like a good audition for a non-boring friend to me

silently its just lots and lots of practice and a certain tolerance of hitting yourself in the face!

Here you go, Silently : thehulahoopinstitute.com/2016/10/hula-hoop-tricks-for-beginners/

Have fun!

she wasn't exercising she was doing a gymnastics style dance type thing

...that sounds an awful lot like exercise to me!! I mean yes it is attention seeking but still - if you're an actual hula hoop teacher and want to get a bit of practice in you're hardly going to do a normal boring hula routine.

(And for the record, I have MH problems and there is literally no way you would know unless you could see my medical records. I present as very normal and personable and barely ever sob on unsuspecting senior managers when all they did is ask me how I was.

I absolutely can't stand adults being wacky and zany in order to draw as much attention to themselves as possible. Like when grown ups go down the slides in softplay and think they're being hilarious and everyone will think they're such a laugh. Why do they need so much validation from strangers?

I shall go forth and buy a hula hoop.

pumper why do you assume other people's life choices have anything to do with you whatsoever?

pumper maybe they're actually just enjoying themselves?

silently just please don't get a weighted one. Go to Firetoys and get a proper one or if you're in London PM me and I'll give you one

I walk to school with my kids using the same route as our playground show off. She’s into performance parenting. She shouts at her kids, making her 8 year old cry once, to overtake us on the pavement and not be —polite— wimps by hanging back. She also takes most of her clothes off before reaching the school gate. She’ll do most of the walk in weather appropriate gear then strip down to a crop top and cycling shorts right before getting to school. I will say she obviously works out a lot as she’s muscle-y and toned, but er, put it away love.

If her DH is with her she’ll full on snog him in the playground in front of their horrified kids.

Hula hooping would be quite tame for this woman. I avoid her and her performances. Other parents have suffered at her queen bee hands but luckily none of my kids are in classes with any of hers.

Autumnal, thanks for that link, I’m definitely going to give it a go, in private of course!

Good for her! Sounds like it's part of her exercise routine and she's fitting it in when she can.

I hula hoop not on the school run outside in the front garden or I take my hoop to the gym with me. I'm not attention seeking or mad as a box of frogs, although judging my some of the responses my neighbours may disagree.
It's just to dangerous to do in the house with the DC around and I don't always have enough space.

I have a hula hooper in the family. It's just a fun hobby for the slightly hippyish. And there's a whole online community of hooping people who set each other challenges that often involve hula hooping in weird places, so she might have been doing one of those.

Live and let live people, just because someone's being a bit quirky doesn't mean you have to let your inner 15 year old meangirl take over.

For everyone saying they can't hula hoop, you've probably got the wrong size hoop. Don't attempt it with your child's hoop. It needs to reach between your belly button and your chest when standing it on the floor.

Sounds like she was exercising to me, if she was jogging you wouldn't have batted an eyelid? I hate sitting in my car waiting for school to kick out, wish I was brace enough to hula hoop on the pavement .

AIBU to think that people who start threads bitching about other mums on the school run are attention seeking?

And dicks as well.

This is a mean thread, as if she did it in public in a school it was always going to be recognised on here.

And now two parents are bitching about her and saying she's not sane. Charming.

I wouldn't take her class as I don't believe in exercise but good for her. It's a chance to make friends as she's new and advertise.

Prefer that to being flogged aloe

She sounds like my mom. Seems a normal sight where I'm from no one would bat an eye. The suggestions of MH problems are weird af as is the sneery attitude to someone doind some harmless entertainment/excercise in the street.

Reading to your kid in public is attention seeking on MN Martha.

MN seems a really weird place sometimes. I often find some of the attitudes hard to believe are real.

I was mad about hulahoops as a child, could do all the tricks. I feel like going and buying one now.