what makes you an unusual mum?

[NotThereYet]

Just wondering what things you do that you don't see other Mums doing, or what aspects of your character you don't think make you typically 'Mum-like'?

Wow interesting responses. I forgot I had posted this, and have only just read what everyone has answered. I love hearing about all the un-Mum like Mums. It does indeed show that Mums are not one homogeneous mass.

I don't feel the need to display photos of my dc's in our house. My friends think I'm strange but I see them everyday anyway so why would I need photos of them on display?

Also I've recently performed at our preschools charity ladies night with half naked young men.

Once i am in work...i forget i have a child, i do not even think about him until i am pulling into my drive at home.
I do not feel the need to discuss him either and rarely talk about him.

My job is full on, i litterally switch off my home role and switch on my work role entirely.

If he is ill at school, dh is the 1st contact not me, i cant be dieturbed at work (unless dire dire emergency) DH stays off work to be with him too, not me.

Apparently this is weird and uncaring.

pictish that is considered really weird in this day & age...not having a wii or X box, i know because we dont have any of that stuff either, my family think that i am making ds miss out and we are neglecting him....

we have trees to climb and crocodiles in our living room (according to ds & his imagination) and so have NO time for such things...nor the money

bejeezus I'm totally with you

The stealth boasters are out in force on this thread.

For those proud of their lack of stairgates, my Mum died falling down stairs. She was 59 and an excellent walker, had been doing so for nearly 58 years. She could go up and down backwards or forwards. It's just plain stupidity not to use stairgates with young kids, no matter how proficient the kid is.

LeBOF

I wasn't desperate to have a girl.

After having Ds's1 and 2, DH and I decided to go for number 3. EVERYONE assumed we were desperate for a girl, and we had so many comments about it.

As it happened, DC3 turned out to be twins and one was a girl.

Now I get lots of 'Isn't it lovely to have a girl at last?'

Er, well, she's 5 wks old, not that different to a newborn baby boy at the moment!

It really bugs me when people go on about the girl thing, like boys are somehow inferior . Even my Granny said that she wondered if I would bond with my boy twin ok, as I didn't really need him

There's so many posts on here about how people as disappointed not to be having a girl, etc. I find it very sad.

Very relaxed about mess and chocolate...

Dd still has bed time bottle at 17 months and I have no immediate plans to change that.

Ive been in prison

when is it okay to take away stairgates do you think? Just taken mine down as they kept falling off and wrecking the walls. DD is 2.3 and seems fine on the stairs but worried now