I'm a part-time mum (if there is such a thing)and am beginning to find the school gate hard work. There is a definite "in-crowd" (which they would deny vociferously) and initially I did get to know them a bit, had a few coffees with them. Nowadays I generally can't cos of DD2's activities - when you're only off 2 days a week it seems a bit more important to do those things than have coffee. Now it seems I'm virtually ignored by this lot and am really not "in". There doesn't seem to be much of a middle ground - you're either a regular, every week, at coffee, or not at all. The same group run the friend's association and - although I really don't think they realise - they kind of monopolise it. I know they work hard but at the beginning of term they said everyone was welcome to meetings and they would put times up on notice boards -not a single such notice has gone up - even though they have orf=ganised two events so muct have been having meetings.
Part of me knows that I'm behaving a bit like a spoilt child - I;m not sure how many of these meetings I would have gone to and - like I said - I donlt have a burning desire to be in with their crowd and have coffee evry week. I just feel a bit miserable and excluded. Just wondered wat everyone else's experience was like.