To wonder what would happen if someone saw me? (Light-hearted)

[formerbabe]

My ds has started secondary school and I usually drop him off in the mornings? He has told me to drop him off a road before the school? He told me that this is in case someone sees me. . I'm hideously average in every imaginable way so...

Answers on a postcard please?!

It’s not about you, it’s about his cool factor!

It’s too risky, OP. You might still be seen with him and GOD ALONE KNOWS what the fall out might be.

For your son’s sake - and remember we are talking about his entire secondary career - I think you need to make a tremendous sacrifice and let him walk/catch a bus there himself.

It’s the only answer. I’m sure your boy will more than understand your generous proposal.

My mum once waved to me while I was standing waiting for the school bus. The horror!

From now on, please drop him right outside the gates while singing loudly to ABBA with the windows open

I was used to walking Down the street with a row of young lads approaching calling out "Hello, DintJunior's Mum!" with DS himself behind them, bent double, trying not to be seen.

I dare you to 'high five' him in public

Ha! My dc already know that if they try anything like that, I'll do bad mum dancing in front of the school gates 😂 Try it, it works like magic

My DS once really created at this age as he'd 1) seen me in town after school and 2) I'd apparently been 'swinging' a carrier bag as I walked

I can only imagine that he would spontaneously combust if anyone were to see you with him. This risk is not just contained to the vicinity of the school gates but also to anywhere that people might see him with you such as the supermarket or (shudder) the cinema! It is imperative that his peers do not misunderstand the situation and somehow get impression that you are his friend OP, you are strictly a meal provider and taxi driver in public.

I dread to think what would happen if you tried to hug him as he left the car

flamingjune123 I am sat here laughing at visions of you jauntily swinging your carrier bag through the town centre

Guaranteed that half his class will also be getting dropped off in this road :D :D

Yes you definitely need to drop him off down the road whilst also making yourself invisible!
I'm not allowed to kiss ds7 goodbye now as I'm sooo embarrassing so I have to shake his hand! Wtf is that about! Everyone knows I'm his mum as I work at his school 🤦‍♀️

My DD recently told me to stop talking so loudly. I was talking in my normal voice, which no one has ever said was too loud in nearly 50 years, the icing on the cake was we were in a field, walking the dog. There was no one for miles. I shouted all my conversations for the rest of the walk ha

My DP drops off our 14 yr old DD from time to time right outside school and she goes mad, he just laughs and blows kisses at her

Went to the cinema once with my youngest son to a film he wanted to see. He refused to stand next to me or acknowledge me whilst waiting in the foyer in case anyone saw him/me. Making sure there was no one we knew there I stood up and made an announcement that the young lad over was in fact my son and he was with me!

I knew my son well enough to know that he would see the funny side of it. He never did it again though 😂

My dd is only 9 and I'm already super embarassing- I dared to wave at one of the school mum's I'm friendly with when I saw her in a restaurant and she was with her son from dds class. She was super mortified! God help her when she is a teenager!!

Obviously, you need to get that tee-shirt with the words, 'My son's that age now that I'm an embarrassment' plus a great big unapologetic smiley grinning face!!

DS1 is in the full throes of his miserable teen years and a couple of weeks ago when I drove him to school he was so sullen and grumpy I wound down the window and drove slowly past him on his way in shouting "goodbye my looooooove". Because sometimes you just have to ruin your child's life and that's that. Plus, it gives them something to talk about in therapy in later life.

My dad drove INTO the school grounds, right into the middle of the quadrangle wearing his worst 70s (it was the 90s) paisley shirt to drop me off on my first day of high school. Had to kiss both his cheeks in front of an audience of kids before I gingerly stepped out. I’m convinced it was a huge contributor towards my lack of popularity.

@FudgeBrownie2019 sometimes you just have to ruin your child's life and that's that. Plus, it gives them something to talk about in therapy in later life.

This must have been what he was thinking at the time. Curses!

Give him a huge kiss and call him snuggle bums as you drop him off tomorrow.

i drop DD16 and her BF at 6th form every morning.

i'm not allowed to drop them outside the front door, but i am allowed to drop them about 30m up the drive, the other side of where the buses stop.

far enough that it's not obvious they've been dropped in, but not so far that they actually have to expend any physical effort getting to classes (or risk wet hair in the rain).

i'm going to interpret this as me being cooler than OP though.

I'm not allowed to be in the hallway when she opens the front door in the mornings

I worked in a school who had a dressing up day, I went as cruelly de ville.
Daughter wanted dropping off an extra road away, so I beeped bye and waved!

@flamingjune123 I hope you twirl every carrier bag like a dance baton now