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

[Ceebee74]

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'

Poor you. That's got to be a downer - looking like a vegetarian and not being one!

There's mum-who-hangs-around-chatting-in-playground-till-9.30am-so-toddlers-can-play-on-school-equipment-cos-I-am-too-lazy-to-take-them-to-park

That's me.

We definitely have a couple of Queen Bees - I do love that expression. One is head of PTA, the other wouldn't touch PTA with a barge pole! I don't think either of them have many close friends!!

I'm usually last one in playground mum wondering where is DD? as she eventually saunters out, not a care in the world.

I am also the loner mum as only collect occassionally and don't know any one else

I'm the new mum because just moved in am also the tired looking mum

Dd school is great most the kids to the parents well

and has anyone said about holiday mum where they go on about their holidays in exotic places then whenask you where you went in my case camping with dc look down there nose at you

also lot of glam mums at dd school but live in posh area so guess that makes me the look out of place mum lol

Oh and I'm also the no he is not my touboy mum, he is my son got asked this in a round about way lol which is funny as I um not ultra glam or anything that would attract a much younger man when ds1 picked up dd from school occasionaly

now make point of saying did your Brother drop you of

I've got a "no one truly understands my child or can cater to her needs but me" mum who is alway just about to move her child to a better school/class/riding lesson but never actually does.

In fact everyone understands her child perfectly and likes her and feels so sorry for her, having a mum who is plainly mad as a bunch of frogs.

This is so true i see alot of these sterotypes outside the class room

I am Mum of Disruptive Child, who keeps her head down and everyone feels a bit sorry for (but not sorry enough to invite Disruptive Child home to play). Unfortunely.

Could also fit into the very young mum, but not sure what do you class and very young?

Oh dear, I'm the "blows hot and cold mum" sometimes chatty, but often walks straight past people without seeing them as I am either worrying about work, or in pain so trying to get home asap. Luckily DD is very sociable so I've ended up knowing the mums of her friends!

We also have a clique of "sunglasses, D&G handbag and dyed blonde hair" of which the "dogs in handbag" are a subset.

Also, does anyone else have the "knows everyone, calls them darling, does everything to help out and fund raise at the school, incredibly popular, touches people when she greets them" mum? I so want to be her! (Sobs)

The "has actually quite enjoyed the playground politics shinanagins but is starting work on monday and is going to miss it" mum.

That'l be me then.

I wonder if there is a little clique of breakfast club mums i can infiltrate?

have we had spliff smoking Dad yet?

I was walking behind him to collect ds from preschool yesterday. Couldn't believe it when we went inside the school to collect a child from reception. He did at least put out the spliff before entering school grounds

i'm 'stays in the car til i see dd's actual door open so i don't have to make small talk mum'

also known as 'parks on the zig zags mum'

Maxine05, our lesbian mum status is completely deflected by a few married women who LOOK like lesbians. So you are helping us out really

am now kind of worried I have been classed as a carrot-icing ineffectual eco parent.... I think of myself as serious professional efficient uber parent who spends far too much bloody time augmenting the state system's poverty of education... but given that I frequently wear torn jeans, old hiking boots, lumberjack shirts and un-darned jumpers, god knows what the other parents think

£75k?!!! Where can I find one???

I am 'turns up once a term mum' kids go to & from school on the bus - otherwise I'd be doing at least 25 miles a week on the school run & the bus is free, plus I get to work at a reasonable time.

Having done my termly trip to the playground (to round up lost jumpers) I found lots of;
young SAHM primark princesses (suspect they have never actually had a job),
alternative lifestle mums & dads (lots, with scruffy/grubby kids as mentioned),
grannies & grandads - who very nicely converse with each other in their own little clique,
really not very interesting or well dressed SAHMs who have lived here all their life & think a trip to the nearest city is a big day out,
mum & dad who turn up every day together (& suspiciously look like brother & sister )

DP is grumpy grey faced shift worker dad who only goes to school under great duress!

So glad to see that my playground is not the only freakfest around - I've never even been to DS1's school at muster time!

what about 'have to talk extra loudly to mates about privte life' mum
they can often be heard saying things like "and then i told him he can take his f*king hand of my a*e.........."
or
"and the twat came home drunk again so I told him to............."

just makes me cringe.

Im "slightly shy and new mum", whos tired talking to different people but now fed up of the blank looks or being ignored. But i really dont care coz its only pre-school and I no lots of other mums who will be at primry next year :)

LeQueen - thankyou for making my unpleasant afternoon spent un-blocking the sink a bit more pleasant .

Making me think of what kind of stereotype I fit into? Haven't read all the ideas so will make my own; Friendly mum who knows a lot of people and will talk to anyone, but refuses to stand slagging the school off, or entering into ANY LEVEL of competition between the other mums - which TBH doesn't happen a lot; Happy because her children are happy whilst secretly knowing that they are at or near the top of their classes.

Scruffster do I work with you?

I definitely recognise a few of these. I too am blanked by "Over-the-shoulder mum". She probably thinks I am not worth talking to because she can't work out why I turn up to school in jeans and pullover and am not out working at that time of day.

UQD my DH always used to do the primary school run in the morning and he reckoned there were 3 types of mum:

1. Nice mum - treats dads as human beings, speaks to them

1. Snooty mum - totally blanks dads because they are male and therefore nonpersons

1. Tart mums - those who approach dads with view to chatting up

He remarked that there weren't many no 3 category and the few that existed ignored him as he wasn't young, good-looking or rich enough (rich being enough to cancel out being old and ugly)