Alphamummies - how many do you know personally?

[Anna8888]

For the sake of this thread, I'll define alphamummy with a pretty loose definition.

• works full-time and earns over £100 K
• married with husband working full-time and earning over £100 K
• at least two children who have got as far as secondary school without any hiccups
• no career breaks, divorces

How many women do you know personally (school friend, university friend, colleague, family member, neighbour) who have been doing the alphamummy thing for at least 11 years?

quattrocento, stop arseing around and go do some work!

Can I just say I hate alpha mums and everything to do with them but couldn't resist reading this.

Anna888 there's a fabulous book written about the macroeconomic implications for the household when 2 parents are out working. By Madeleine Bunting (I think), who writes in the Guardian, can't remember what it's called. Also see Oliver James' 'Affluenza' - nobody has solutions but it's well documented.

Am off am off. Thanks, needed to be pushed!

Just one thing, curious. Why do you "hate" alphamummies? What, about this ridiculous box, is there to hate?

Quattro - I was thinking the same thing

This has to stop.

But curiouscat - why do you hate them? what have they ever done to you?

They're fiction.

< Waynetta - stop stalking me >

it looks like far too much work to be an alphamummy. I bet they have to have manicures and regular haircuts as well. And prob dental check ups every 6 months.

whats more I bet they don't absentmindly point out shiny red trucks to their boss or suddenly realise while cleaning glasses mid presentation to PWAVNAVIATTA(People Who are Very Nearly As Very Important As They Think They Are) that the cloth in question is actually a pair of small boy pants.

Maybe you are an Alfafa Mummy

but Alpha Mummies is a cooked up sound bite that makes some journo's lots of money.

Meowmix that made me laugh!!!

(BTW - strangely, I remember that your colleague's name is DAve, isn't it)(see TnN, you're not the only one I'm stalking!!)

I sang "whats the story in Balamory" last week without realising. No-one commented and work conitnued as normal

[I want my own personal stalker]

Don;t think anyone else in the office watches CBeebies so think I got away with it

[[http://folk.uio.no/tfredvik/g35/scans/hiding.gif ..........]

(TnN - Don't worry....am getting my bunny-boiling outfit ready just for you!!)

Why do I hate alpha mummies? Let me count the ways... Seriously I meant the concept of alphamummies, not any individual who happens to fit the original criteria.

Talk of alpha males arose from Desmond Morris' 1960's studies of primate behaviour. I believe alpha mummies is some kind of spoof spin off not a valid concept. It's been stretched too far.

It's a kind of trashy Daily Mail-speak idea to beat us up with. I don't want to always feel less than alpha, but maybe that means I've bought into the concept at heart

crap at stalking

lololo [gurn]

lol at the stalker

yup, curiouscat, sounds like you've bought it . THanks for the origin though - makes sense (thought it had been around for a bit). Don't buy into - rebel and Just Be You (and be content with being you).

good memory Waynetta! He was here last week and I managed not to point out the cranes to him. However, flashing my son's underwear at massed ranks of Sheikhs is going to take some living down.

I kind of feel sorry for alpha mums. I bet they'd love to let one thing slip but have set an ideal for themselves that needs a lot of living up to.

what about alphamumstobe................

oh they will learn

for Tirnanog

lolololo

very good