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'

'late mum who lives very near the school but is always rushing in just as the door is shutting.'
ha that's me too

am also Working Mum who only drops off twice a week and collects once a week so Doesn't Really Know Anyone Yet BUT IS VERY NICE REALLY SO PLEASE SMILE AT ME AND/OR TALK TO ME

Oh and I'm the sheepish friend of 'unreliable car Mum' getting stared at when picking up her friend's DD (because of aforementioned unreliable car), until said child comes running out of school shouting my name. Then everyone returns to what they are doing once they realise I am actually there to pick someone up, not just a wierdo loitering around a playground!

lublieava the reason that type of mum comes back to you is that she is so self obsessed that she just can't imagine that you would be annoyed by her behaviour, rather that you will be honoured that she has come back to you .

Oh gawd.

Next year I will be...

Social pariah Mum. Looking frightened and incapable of small talk, fiddling with my bike and dd's trailer (I don't drive) so that I don't have to make eye contact with anybody. Occasionally, I'll make an effort to talk as I'm secretly quite lonely but I'm rubbish so will stammer and blush and then abruptly run away while people nod and agree that yes, they were right all along. Social pariah Mum is weird.

Despite being a combination of quite a few of these, at the moment I'm mostly Staying Hopeful But Doomed To Disappointment Mum -aka mother of the Disruptive Child who she hopes has behaved himself but soon sees by the slight moue of the playgroup leader's mouth that in fact he has not.

ShowOfBloodyStumps

You may yet be suprised when SocialPariahMum2 sits next to you and you find a really good friend there
Honestly it won't be that bad, 90% of them are nice

I'm probably Been There Done That Mum as all dd's friends are the oldest child. Unfortunately with ds when I was I'm All New Let's Talk About School Endlessly Mum his friends only had older siblings, so I've been stuffed both times.

We have the been on Jeremy Kyle mum

I'm the pregnant, harrased shouts like a fishwife at DS mum!
Oh and usually the last to arrive mum too!

Today I was the "flustered and nearly late due to reading THIS THREAD" mum

When my DSDs were in primary I was "stepmum so nobody talks to me but I don't care because we're a happy family so sod you lot" mum :o

Unfortunately the other mums there were all "don't give a toss about what you did at school" mums :(

My DD is only at preschool but I'm already seeing the "pretending my DC wanted to bring their latest workbook in but actually I made them bring it so the other mummies will know how clever my child is" mum - a precursor to the "oh you're on THIS LEVEL are you darling so everyone can hear" mum. Yuk.

I am Working Mum and BoffinMum (everyone asks her about education things in the playground!) And Frizzy Mum (hair never behaves).

Has anyone mentioned 'the dad who wears shorts most of the year round'?

I'll have a think about where I fall. I could be mum who wears sunglasses on head most of year round but they're not expensive glasses and it's just because it makes my hair look better when I don't have time to do anything to it.

I am the Mum You All Bitch About Because She Never Goes to the School and Doesn't Even Know Where the Classroom Is For God's Sake.

I am the one you ask, emboldened by your glass of warm wine at Parents' Evening, why I bothered having children, if I was only going to leave them to a "succession of Filippinas" to bring up. (As I said, there was only one - do they really all look the same to you?)

I am the one whose husband you fancy and become skittish and giggly in his presence (he does school run, I don't), and think he needs a Real Woman rather than a Career Bitch of a Wife (your words).

I am the one who, being apart from the school run/gate, notices that two of the Mums are having a lesbian affair several months before they run off with each other...

I could be 'txting mum' or 'sunglasses mum' but I think I really am 'been there done that mum'.

I couldnt care less about school playground shite, I talk to the people I like, blatantly ignore the people I dont, feel no need to make small talk with idiots I dont know and dont want to know.

I'm the polar opposite of Queen Bee Mum, more like scullery maid mum..

But am alternately:

Rushing
Disorganised
Well Meaning
Likely to forget your name
Volunteering when I have the chance
Likely to make you feel good about your fashion sense/haircut/shoes/handbag

And generally 'Smiley and quite nice Mum'

But most recently:

'ruined the birthday party by holding another party that more children wanted to come to on the same day Mum'

I think I am keep my distance but smile nicely at everyone mum, disorganised mum and lick my finger and last-minutely wipe breakfast off my child's face mum.

I know the lovely lady who runs the school office very well because I'm always there dropping off forgotten dinner money/packed lunch/PE kit/cookery club container around 10am.

I'm the harrassed full-time working mum who always looks tired and is pathetically grateful when she is able to work from home and take her DS in herself instead of dropping him off at Breakfast Club at 0730am.

oh this is a bit of a bitch fest isn't it!

lol

oh i'll join in.

we have slob dad, stands outside the gates, never comes in.

busybody mum, commettee member

indian house slave,poor love doesn't speak english collects/brings child everyday

late/anxious mum.

sneery type, that doesn't really talk to anyone but, looks them up and down

bug eyed mum

rough mum

bump mum

My DS is still not of school age but when he is I will be Very Very Old Mum and, I would imagine, Exhausted Mum.

we also have "porn star mum" who is a bit Jordan like and wears unbelievably revealing clothes and unsuitable shoes. One of my dds loves her fashion sense which is a bit worrying for me.

sounds like my dc playground !!

Oh dastardlyandsmugly I know I am going to be exactly like you in a couple of years but secretly want to be ................
Chic, serene, popular, organised Mum - has anyone met het, does she exist and more importantly could you be friends with her without destroying yuor self esteem?

Really laughing about the food obessive Mum, poor child is clearly going to end up obese/anorexic with that level of food focus.

God my spelling is shocking. Must pay more attention.

I am Head Down Mum. My ds has ASD and although I don't much care what you think I know that you don't know what to say to me so I prefer to make it easy on all of us by just not getting socially involved with any of you. I would like to say to you don't feel sorry for me, my ds is fab, oh and btw ASD is not catching so you don't have to avoid us .

In our school we have Mum's who actually have physical fights just outside the front of the school (inner city school), I have seen two since ds started there. The next day they tell you their side in great detail trying to get you to take sides with them.