you knwo you are a pushy mum when

[LaCod]

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you cour the class list lookign fo kids whosenames make them sound nice.

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You correct the spelling and grammar on the school dinner menu.

oh yes ery good

...and write complete book reviews in the home/school reading book.

You get your son a maths tutor.

I've just done this.....never thought I'd see the day...

My name is SmileysPeeples I am a pushy mum.

You worry that dd has no extra-curricular activities on both weds and thurs. Will this make her unfocused?
(Not me BTW)
You practice putting uniform on and off and eating lunch out of a sandwich box for a week before your child starts reception (this was me)

god i cringe at my ranting in ds1s reading book

" he stil deont knwo "the""

What names sound nice then?
Persephone Fiddlybottom?
go-on, we need examples

you check what books your child's friends are reading when they come for tea (I've been very tempted to do this...)

ohi do that
i was senthom ds2s girlfdiends book and opened it before i realsied it was HER nameon the front
it had her readng age in it

LESS tha ds2s har har
i todl hermum
she laughed

oh good god, are they all competitive?

dd1 starts on Wednesday and she can't write at all and all her friends can (unless their mums are signing cards pretending )

sigh

Your ds2 has a girldfirend? I thought that he was at the age where girls were another species?

well a girl who loves him
he is not bothered he says

olive i forge ds3 s
he did baout 3 thankyous theni wrote the rest in my lfet hand

adn ds1 coudlnt write either
he coudl scrawl hsi name

why havent nursery taught her to write a name?

HA

ok then

I will do that from now on

No way can they all write, oliveoil.

DS2's writing still looks like a drunken spider fell in an inkwell and then tottered off, and he's just going into Yr 2 (sigh).

am taking ds1 to haev a pre 11 plus tutoring asessment tomorrow
am a psh y mum

they have tried to get her to do her name but apparently she cries and gets upset

I do it at home but she gets in a strop and screws the paper up

I envisage a lot of threads with me whining in the next few weeks

How old is he cod?

ds1 just 9( but year 5)
ds2 7 on wed( but year 2)
ds3 mentalist 4

You know you are a pushy mum when...

you don't tell other parents which music teachers you're hoping to use in case they get in there first;

you google your dc's teacher to check that she is properly qualified (why are so many reception teachers on Facebook?);

you make your dc take in some fudge from your holiday (along with the diary they've done over the summer);

you've been working on the "key words" for the last 3 weeks.

You every so patiently remind the teacher to fill in the homework books.

You complain that the set meal for lunch on Thursdays is hotdogs.

You go in and have a session with the teacher to explain that your child is coasting along lazily because he can't be bothered and want to identify a plan of action to sort it out.

You go and have a word with the teacher because for four weeks in a row the maths homework is not challenging enough ...

I am cringing at myself now. Literally cringing.

You wonder if you can get a position on the PTA when your child isn't due to start until September 2008.

god my kids teachers are on there too
am alarmed