God, why are some mums so bloody dull??

[allgonebellyup]

Just need to rant..all the playground/toddler grp conversations seem to revolve around:

• washing,washing machines breaking etc
• does my daughter love ballet, or would she rather do modern? or tap? Oh its so hard to decide, i dont know what to choose,hmm, oh its such a rush after school getting to all these places, blardy blah..
• are you preparing recipes for the school cook book? (er, no)
• OOh are you going to the PTA meeting after school, theyre talking about the new fences that are being put up (yeah like i care!) -my husband thinks our new 4X4 isnt big enough for the kids, we only have one child but oh we really do need more space..so we have to buy the hugest fukking land rover we can find in london -we tried to get ds to sleep at 7.15 last night but he was cranky and didnt drop off til 7.30 so i didnt have time to get all my ironing done..blardy blaardy bores...

Does my head in!! dont they have any interests? any ideas of what is happening in the rest of the world? no jobs to go to, or issues to focus on????

lol AT FOOD INSERTION

oops caps sorry

i do actually do all the dull stuff like taking dd to gym all the time and taking ds to playschool but it gets me down and i feel like life is one big nothing at times.

my child-free friends take the piss out of me for "doing nothing all day" (part time work means nothing to them!)

OMG, your kid/s finally got a mention, I've been waiting for that

I think you are projecting. I think your friends think you are dull and mumsy, and you are yelling "no, no, I'm still fabulous - they're the mumsy ones"

(Just opened this thread to see if it was about me. I do often wonder why I am so boring.)

For some people I guess when they're bringing up children and spending a lot of time in the home, there isn't much time or energy to think about more interesting topics.

and you, in turn, take the piss out of other mothers.
Nice.

i think some people are just dull, regardless of being a mum or not....not everyone you meet is going to rock your world and bring new meaning to life...sometimes mundane can be nice

meandmyflyingmachine - i think youve hit the nail on the head, are you a shrink?!

Babygrand, I DO think about other stuff and I have been at home for over a year now and I am quite into it. As Lulu says mundane is nice and safe. Not everyone wants to think of other stuff all of the time.

I bet some of the girls on here who debate the important stuff, in the news, politics are lovely mums during the day. But when the kids go to bed, of course they are interested in other stuff.

I don't get a lot of time to think about the other stuff during the day as I am busy being a mother.

My, but you have a way with words, AGBU!

Wendyweber what the hell do you mean by that??
just because i work and have other interests that i love, it means i am neglecting my children?
Sorry i am not one of those people who go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about their children/what their children eat/when they sleep/what their favourite colour is..

OMG, I have just stated that I am a 'Mother'. I feel very grown up now

"wanky fanjo" [groin] [bush]

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Crikey, that throw-away comment took off dint it?

Maybe they're MNers, AGBU, and they get all their undull conversation urges out here.

"would rather be discussing my girlie holiday in ibiza, and the tunes i listen to, and the clubs we will go to , and the careers im interested in..."

Can you not just say, "Please shut up about your lives, let's talk about Me?"

well they bore me going on about THEIR houses, THEIR husbands, THEIR 4X4s..

I've sent dh to get dd from swimming, after all he's been away on business and I've "helped" her to revise for her school exams this week

Sorry, seem to be on a parallel universe

If you have so much contempt for them, why would you want to find out about their interests? Genuine question.

I mean, you don't sound as if you like them as people to begin with.

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sorry, where am I? fell aslepp half way through the OP....

sorry i didn't make it to school this afternoon but i sent the exhausted gardener in the 4 x 4

Just change the subject whenever you feel bored

However, actually going to clubs and dancing to music may be fun, but talking about them generally isn't imo

And I've had to think a lot about the new bathroom I'm having done in the near future

Its exhausting stuff

And I might have to go to work tomorrow if my raging sinusitis starts responding to the antibiotics

Oh allgonebellyup, had you not mentioned London I would have thought you must have overheard the mum that was talking to other mums at dts school today.

All about ironing, and housework and not having any time for it (why, what are they doing? Are they really that bad at time management? No one is going to die if the ironing piles up for Gods sake!) The way they were talking I was so glad to not be included or otherwise I might have had the urge to smack my head against the glass doors!

And I've recently decided not to bother with the PSA/Parent Council anymore as it is so bloody clique that I spent the past year offering to help and being told "Oh no that is x's job."

What a delightful original post.

Parp.