Mums arguing in the playground [shock]

[AngelaChill]

Apparently there's history of one child being missed out from last years Birthday party and it seems it's happened again this year, all the girls in the class invited except one !

Was it your child?

No thank goodness, don't know what i'd do in that situation.

Then why do you care

Poor girl not to get invited. When it was DD's birthday the whole class came even the boy who Dd didn't want - I told her it wasn't fair to leave him out.

Last year there was a fist fight in the plaground between one of the teachers and one of the mums (who's also a helper), infront of the kids!!!

wow binka your playground rocks!

Well on two counts firstly that they would behave that way in front of the children and that any mother would leave a 6 year old out like that.

mothers are bitchy
kids can be bitchier

How sad for the little girl, and how unkind of the mum and the invitee. I personally couldn't do it, not to a little girl, regardless of my grievances with her mum.

As for fighting in the playground - out of order. It's up to parents, and teachers in the second case, to show the children an example of how to behave.

It is okay to feel empathy for a child that isn't a blood relative WB ....

In the school where I used to work a mother came into school looking for a particular girl who was "bullying" her daughter. She found her in the corridor (she'd been sent out of a lesson) and they had the most vicious cat fight. Hair ripped out, police called, deputy head showing prospective parents around the school....

the mother and someone else's child?! How old was the girl?

14. Secondary school. Still, not nice!

I'm trying to stop myself saying it...

(...whispers - bet that stopped her from bullying in the future...)

I didn't say that!

Please take the bullying accusation with a pinch of salt. Two girls, rival factions, each being "bullied" by the other. Bullying consisted of, well, catfights. Well taught by their parents.

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am trying to work out if malicious, bored mother or spotty funky teenager

You see I feel as though I should support the left out child's mother and say if L is invited then my daughter isn't go either, actually mine couldn't give two hoots whether she goes or not, but would the other parents support me when next year it's L and mine left off the list.

I think this is storing up trouble for the future.

Am I missing something?

Is there more to it than meets the eye? Has the girl not invited behaved badly towards the girl having the party? I ask because a girl in dd1's class had been utterly horid to her and so there was no way either dd1 or I wanted her at her party. Fair enough, I thought.

AngelaChill, I'd stay out of it. As YeahBut says, there may be some history of which you are unaware. And doesn't everyone have a perfect right to decide whom to invite to their own home anyway?

who the fuck said it wasnt hycainthb?

thats twice youve commented on me, care to explain yourself?

Bloody hell. What's going on?

I'm sure there is history, I'm just worried about the implications for years to come.

Mmmm this is a bit playground too isn't girls?

Angela - there was a fight between mums in our playground once. Over a bloke. It took me back

OMG what did you do ? - I was wondering whether I should have run and got the teacher myself - lol