'Senior' mums

[Raymond]

Wondered if all schools have them?

Nothing to do with age... but they have older children who are higher up the school (a fairly standard primary). This seems to give them a Readybrek glow of superiority. They dress rather similarly denim minis, silver birkies and are very active in the PTA. At this time of year what with the sports days, fairs, trips etc, they rush around shedding selfimportance. They remind me very much of 14-yr-old girls.

Anyone else have these?

oh gosh yes, but ours wear these and carry copies of Keystage One Revision papers

We have certainly got one of those in our year
Despite the fact that she is a very nice woman, the unmistakeable aura of the Senior Mum clings to her. The rest of us are more your behind the bikeshed mob.

Ooh Raymond, your kids must go to the same school as mine, as you have described "senior mum" woman down to a tee! I find that some kind of background in accountancy or another dull, authoritarian kind of discipline seems to feature, too.

God i love those clogs!
Are they trendy or summat?
A kid in ds's nursery has them.
Well funky!

(I rather think I am one of these women....)

Moondog,you don't come across as a Clipboard Carrying Bustler!

Hmm, Heroes, my SMs don't work. I think they used to be in PR though.
I got ticked off by a SM for, well, just being there, at sports day. One smiled pityingly at me in the runup to my child's race and said, 'It's funny, I feel like I've been to so many of these.'
I felt almost honoured that she had communicated directly with me, as opposed to via my child's pigeonhole.
Mostly they are in a huddle chatting to each other.

By the time ds3 has been through Primary I will have had a child there for 17 years (1998-2015)and I still don't think I will be a Senior Mum.
I may well be an Elderly Whittery Mum.

raymond maybe you don't have the right sunglasses

there was a coven doing face painting at our fete-worse-than-death recently..woebetide anyone who picks up a damp sponge who hasn't had the Correct Training

OMG Phillip, you are bang on with those specs, how did you know

sugarfree, my primary mum years ran from 1986 - 2004 and I wasn't a Senior Mum either (avoided the place like the plague by the end )

Bang on with the sunglasses!

I'm not really like that Sugarfree,but still rather too eager for my own good.
Sure everyone considers me a know it all pain in the arse.

(I'm getting those clogs though.)

Oh blimey - definitely not me. I'm just plain old and steer well away from the PTA

Only another year of primary to go