To be annoyed that the class parents' Xmas party is 'Mums Only' as one of the Dads has been having an affair with one of the Mums!

[quandry]

So.... because two parents are behaving badly, 40 other Dads are not invited to the Xmas bash?

The PTA organiser said she thought it would be a bit 'insensitive' - WTF?

I wish someone would write a sitcom about PTA goings on.

DP is on the PTA, I am not. If we were at your school, quandry, would he be allowed to attend the 'do' he was helping organise??

England is so backward. No one would even dream of suggesting such a thing at my children's school where there are single dad parents, double dad parents and dads who simply share half the parenting. Ugh. We are in the 21st century....let's behave like it.

snort.

what the buggery are the PTA doing! how dare these people set themselves up as 'moral guardians' i bet they are the worst bloody 'fruit-bowl/key swappers any way.

if you agree with their stance go to the do, if not, tell them to get stuffed and go elsewhere!

blimey if it was "faithful mums and dads only" at our school they could hold it in my hallway tbh.
allegedly

I thought everything had to be addressed to parents/carers these days, not singling out mums.

(snort was at Batters)

I agree SofiaAmes - but you can't equate PTAs with England, you know, Cool Britannia! PTAs are the modern-day Dad's Army - battling it out, bumbling along, coping clumsily with affairs and homosexuality, committee madness and petty officialdom. PLease don't take that away from us.....

Actually, DP is thinking of testing the encroachment of the 21stC by putting his name down on the roat to be Father Christmas. (DP is Asian).

And every lucky nipper will receive...a litre bottle of Ecover blu

Quandry, I know of a parents' night out where a recently deceived party was compensated via the Secret Santa with her very own sex toy...
She looked a sight more cheerful than those of us with our best beloveds, especially people who lucked out with a photo frame or a bottle of Liebfraumilch

It's usually only the fathers who have the interesting things to say as the women are only interested in housework and soap powder... I exaggerate a bit but..... But if some parents like me don't have a partner may be it's better not to include fathers and they can have their night out.

It is extreme but needs must. Who do I have to have an affair with in order to be excused the PTA bash?

oh ffs Xenia.

Oh, Xenia
I hate to say this, but our mothers' nights out are packed with women who are great company, regardless of whether they are SAHMs or WOHMs. Really. You sound like a retired colonel sometimes!

Xenia - You might want to change your name to let'stalkaboutme.

really Marina? how astonishing.
an interesting woman
Xenia, for you feminism was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?

Hilarious thread

Xenia - roffling at your suggestion that other women only have one topic of conversation.

Harpsi, I know it's futile, not to mention a completely no shit sherlock post, but I do still hope that some day Xenia will stop being so scathing about other women
I am a cockeyed optimist

I have the memory of one 'mums' night out about oooh, 10 years ago, when a previously unforthcoming mum spilled all about her bedroom antics. She thereafter reverted to being unforthcoming, but d'you know, I can't get that image out of my mind, especially whenever I see her dh in Waitrose.

Have NEVER been on a mums night out where anyone mentioned soap powder OR housework....

yes, but as Marina points out, I do talk about soap powder and washing up liquid a lot atm!
Xenia is right!

PMSL.

sorry sorry sorry Marina I didn't mean to come off as sarcastic
I suddenly have this vision of all the mothers seeing Xenia coming in the room and halting their chat about Kantian philosophy for a dead eyed monologue about Cilit Bang.

LOLOLOL don't forget the teeny weeny chicken drumsticks blu

happystory - "Have NEVER been on a mums night out where anyone mentioned soap powder OR housework" - boring old farts.

blu do you really?
I honestly couldn't think of anything to say about soap powder if I had a gun to my head.