So what 'stereotypes' do I need to look for amongst the other parents at the school gates?

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Just wondering as I saw someone refer to a 'Queen Bee' on another thread and I thought ooh yes, I definitely know who that is at my DS's school'.

What others are there?

I am probably the 'harassed working mum'

PMSL at this thread Ceebee!

I am also 'where the feck is my toddler mum' (but prob fit into many of the other categories depending on the day/my mood..

Loved "organic mum' I know someone who would def object to bread from a bag..!

We have a 'went to private school but sending kids to state school cos we can't afford it' mum who is constantly horrified by it all.. (yawn)

Majority are 'wear the same clothes as their daughter mum'.
Mums who ignore the foreign language speaking mums.
Carry your bag for your 12 year old mum.

Today I encountered the 'my kid talks to your kid but I am going to BLANK YOU' mum.

what about 'same haircut as daughter/s mum'

'Have we had Shorts and T-Shirt in Inappropriate Weather Dad yet?'

Decemeber he'll be going PMSl- ah yes indeedy! H e's a mate in fact.

I am Recently Divorced Mum. Subject of much gossip and/or sympathy. Suspicious types feel I may be after their husbands a full month after ending an eleven year relationship when in reality I wouldn't touch them with someone elses'. To their great joy my Ex is living and working in the building next to the school so we are providing constant entertainment.

We also have Saves Pointless Conversations for Public Mum, likes to drop in lots of non-information designed to let others know that she sees a lot of the teacher/Queen Bee/famous type out of school. "Did I leave my cardi at yours after the BBQ on Sunday? Didn't we have a scream? I'll tell you about You Know What later" etc. Rude.

Is there a difference between Hippy Mum and Clearly Vegetarian Mum? I've been told off for using the latter phrase before.

Think I am ridiculously dressed mum - tries for glam and vintage but ends up scruffy and never has a nice handbag.

Unprune
'my kid talks to your kid but I am going to BLANK YOU' mum...
we have one of those... I have absolutely NO idea what I've done to offend this woman but she blatently blanks me but is really nice and friendly to all the other Mums - I find it rather bemusing (being a been there done this already Mum):)

pmsl at 'surgically inserted into their fleeces'!! tick..

This is horrifyingly accurate. Half a dozen 'Wholesome But Really Rather Dull Mums' spring to mind, and we all know who the Coolly Groomed Aloofly Acerbic socially unattainable ones are!

I think I used to be one of those once, but I'm the worst of all possible worlds these days. Fleeced up to the eyeballs, no lipstick, socially (very) available yet aloof, and spectacularly ill-informed and disorganised re: Harvest Festival and Sports Day. I always turn up after the only race my child is in.

oh, and wanky mum, who drops in the odd french word, thinking it sounds sophisticated, but really ends up looking like a twat and sounding like del boy!

lol

Oh, lots and lots of Wholesome but Dull mums at our gate.

"Wholesome But Really Rather Dull Mums", oh dear I think that rather describes me... I do have my uses though, everyone always checks with me as to what's on when

Have we had "stalker mum"? The Mum who will not take no to "play date" offers and will follow you to your car and keep going while you strap your kids in until you agree!
OMG!

We have Young Mum who smells very strongly of weed at our school....

A little judgey and a little of her if i'm honest...

Should think i'm Smiley Mum with PFB in reception so am nice and keen doing it all for the first time... Am also Mum with baby, always a good icebreaker. Next year will be Mum chasing toddler around playground am sure

We have "the law doesn't apply to me dad" who always parks his Aston Martin on the double yellow lines (or if the community police are on one of their periodic visits on other people's driveways).

And "conpicuous consumption mum" who arrives in a Jaguar convertible and makes a point of telling everyone loudly about her latest kitch/bathroom refit or landscaping project, but has never been heard to talk about her kids.

Then there are several "I like my lifestyle and no way am I ever going back to work even if my kids are all at school and I've really not got an excuse any more" mums who tell us how unfair their dh's are being to suggest that they might look for a job.

And a whole group of the "I'm so glad I've only got girls mums" (but that's a whole different thread!).

Oh and oversensitive mum, who is always rushing off to the head in tears to complain that her pfb is being bullied because he wasn't the first to be picked for a lunchtime football team (not "not picked", not "picked last", just "not picked first"!) or other equally spurious reasons

Ooh glasses on head is me. I would also be the slightly sweaty on arrival mum.

Oh I'm an 'I like my liefestyle and I'm not going back to work' Mum definitely - and without shame.

My youngest is 11.

Sorry Xenia. Trust me, if I could do anything remotely interesting or lucrative I'd be doing it.

Has anyone mentioned Clueless Mum?

She's the one who doesn't know whether she's supposed to go in to collect her child or wait outside for the child to be sent out, never knows which days to send gym kit or other clobber, is a week late with money for school dinners, forgets when it's school photo day and sends in child with not-quite-clean shirt and unbrushed hair, etc...

...and yet I started with such good intentions . It's DD's first year and not even half term yet.

In my defence, I do have a stupid commute and hence get up stupidly early in the morning four days a week so it's not entirely surprising that I'm a bit spaced on the fifth (she says, hopefully?)

teacherspet33 I couldn't find myself until I read your post I'm really 'feel bad about having only 1 kid' Mum Or am I being to hard on myself! I am the 'only one kid another kid playdate' Mum but, I don't make home made pasta! It juut so much easier with an 'only kid' to invite a friend around!
I'm also 'the part-time working' Mum hasn't a clue what going on at home or the school.
I could be LeQueen's "Wholesome But Really Rather Dull Mum" who are surgically inserted into their fleeces. But some 'PTA' Mum's are going to do a make-over on me for charity (true story!)

Silkstalkings - yes there is a difference. Looking like a vegetarian doesn't mean you are one.

I speak from experience. (Am not a vegetarian, but am often assumed to be).

Still have no idea what a vegetarian is supposed to look like.

Boden Mums ! aka 'Jonny's Babes'