Just back from picking up DS from school.
His regular teacher was off sick, so Substitute teacher I have never met is on today.
All parents stand around the exit doors waiting for thie kid to come forward. The teacher was asking each parent who they were here for and giving them the correct child.
I stepped up and she asked me who I was after - I said DS - she looks at me and says "and you would be?" and i say i'm his Mum. She looks me up and down and says that I cant be his Mum as I am too young. I say thanks for the compliment but I am his Mum and I need to get going because its going to start raining and we have to walk up the road.
She still says I am too young to be Ds's Mum, so I ask her to bring him out and ask him herself. She refuses, saying that I will have to wait til everyone else has left so she can go get headmaster and confirm I am his Mother.
So I had to wait 10mins while she unloaded all the rest of the class. DS wanders over to her and says "Miss, I can see my Mummy over there" She seems to be unable to hear him or is ignoring him and goes off to fetch the headmaster.
I then have to wait another 10mins(it is now raining)before she comes back with headmaster.
He takes one look at me and confirms that I am indeed Ds's Mum.
Then she hands him over without apology or a goodbye.
I understand ithe safety issue with allowing children to go with people you dont know etc and needing to check them out. But she seemed to single me out from everypne else and all because she thought I was too young to be DS's Mum.
AIBU to think that she was wrong for the way she handled the situation?
BTW - DS is 4 and I am 24 (and I don't think I look very young)