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'

Another Skirt Mummy here - although not always as coordinated as I'd like to be due to laundry backlog

Seriously-Well-Paid-Experienced-Nanny-and-not-a-Mum - you only realise she's not actually the mum when you find out she's driving the whole family down to the airport for their holidays or she rings regarding a party invite and announces herself as 'x's nanny'.

we had a mum that was constantly on her mobile. On the way to school, at school, kissing goodbye to DC, on the way home. I always wondered who she was talking to...

Kid in Every Class Mum - and all the kids have a snotty nose
Shouty mum - loads of these
Working Mum - runs along the road, dragging kids behind her, always about 2 minutes late for everything
Twins Mum - constantly comparing them to anyone who will listen
Dog Mum - always covered in mud
Pyjamas Mum - just flung a coat on over the top THAT'S ME!
Shifts Dad - gets there early, looks pale and knackered
BME Mum - bellows but not unkindly
New DP Every Week Mum - with range of children to match the range of fathers
PFB Mum - cries if it's windy
Single Dad - stuck in a 1980s timewarp
Grandad Dad - look at me, I can still father kids at 60
Grandma Mum - how the bloody hell did this happen ffs
Sexy lesbian mum - this is DP

Plastic mums - the ones who always stand in the same huddle, in the same place, slagging off the same people, in their very ordinary get-up, boasting their 3 GCSE's which make them considerably more clever than everyone else who probably only have 2 or less.

Sex industry mums - lap dancers etc., always very over done, but keep their figures fantastically (I'm jealous).

Don't fit in mums - clothes are functional but a tad dull, governor, arrives just in time as no real time for playground gossip, actually have a job. DH and I both professionals.(thats me!)

Your school gate sounds much more interesting than mine Decisions

Sex industry mums made me laugh - never seen one of them!

Nah - don't get too many Sex Industry Mums at our rural village school.

We have the mini-George Clooney dad and the mini-David Tennant dad - like the real thing only smaller.

My OH keeps looking at me oddly because I am laughing at this thread

One day I hope to join the school gates mums, but expect I will be Disorganised Always Late Working Mum or if not working, Slightly Non-descript Invisible Dull Mum.

I'm the 'late mum' Slightly disorganised.

At my school gate we have:
French mum : always dressed up , hates the British weather, slightly harassed and bewildered looking ( as in how did I end up living in this non tres chic hell hole) but very friendly
efficient mum: runs PTA, has full time job, knows headteacher very well
nosey mum: if I ask a friend to drop kids off she'll collar me at pickup time to ask where I was
too many kids mum: she'll have one in a sling, a preschooler on each hand and be picking up three kids - thinking about it maybe she's a childminder
fitness freak mum: runs to school, is very skinny

Actually the ones that really make me shudder are the couples who pick up the kids together everyday making me think they're too shy and nervous to come alone and why doesn't one of them get a job!

bigchris - how do fitness freaks children get to school, do they have to chase along after her lugging rucksacks and pe kits ?

I know this is my thread but I am loving it

Am also curious about the celeb dads - how exciting

Anyone interested in oblomovs celeb dad...just think of the most famous one-hit wonder of the early 90's......

No-one else want to give any clues on the celeb dads??

I agree with a previous poster about the Commandeering mums - yes, what the hell do they find to talk to the teacher about every day?? DS1 has been in school 4 weeks now and I have had no reason to talk to the teacher at all Maybe that labels me as not interested mum

I'm not quite in this crew yet but next year when dd starts school I'll be gym Mum Monday and Tuesday (my days "off" actually looking after ds who'd a toddler) then the rest of the week will be Mum who doesn't see/converse with any of the other mums due to having to be in work early doors leaving poor deprived dd in breakfast club/wraparound care whatever it's called.

does everyone else start work at after 9 or something?? Lucky b**tards.

There's always a "live my life vicariously through my child mum" - usually scruffy, no interest in personal appearance, ignores husband, insists on working/volunteering at the school and going on all school trips. Also always an "odd-ball" mum with mad hair.

minx lol, my DS1 is left in breakfast and after school club 3 days a week (I don't work Mondays and I have arranged to start at 9.30 one day a week)...trust me, he is not deprived! He loves it - particularly breakfast club where he gets a huge choice of cereal followed by either a pancake, croissant or toast

This year I have become a subspecies of Been There Done that Mum - My-youngest-is-in-Yr-6-and-I-don't-care-about-any-of-it-any-more-because-next-year-I-will-be-free Mum!

Oh, we have a number of 'Sex industry mums', mainly lap dancers, but some more interesting. Actually, they are some of the more likable mums because they are more real and VERY honest.

Ok, most of our mums are the standard 'Chav mum', who make Vikky Pollard look quite respectable!

I don't think we have any Sex Industry Mums at our schools, but could be v v wrong, of course

Big Chris - I know a couple just like that. Both v educated (she used to be a microbiologist) but now neither of them seem to work and they go everywhere together (inc. the toddler group) - you literally never see them apart or with other people. Perhaps she found some new germ or something, and made squillions, so he's keeping her close

Verybusymum - good point
they're are cycling mums who put child on bike and push child at a fast rate to school and thencycle madly away
always wearing lyrca obviously, lol

Concerned Mum who corners the teacher every day about her dd
Sporty Dad who collects his dd and takes her home on a childseat on the back of his bike.
Helpful SAHD
Mum-who-fancies-helpful-SAHD and makes excuses to chat to him and loiters at locations where she is likely to "bump into" him.