OUR ALL MUMS IN THE PLAYGROUND TWO FACED??

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why are mums in the playground so two faced, I recently fell out with a friend who I met in the school playground our daughter were friends, now looking at her I know I ever really knew her at all. She s teamed up with another mum who she used to call ten bells out to me, not that this bothers me it just makes me smile when I see them talking together or picking each others children up, because I know the things she used to say about her. My question his why are these people so two faced what are they getting from it????

Some people are - some people aren't. Mums in the playground are just like people anywhere else.

OOOOOh - I dunno - but I find mums in the generic - hard 0 that's why when my ds starts school - I'll just drop him off and pick him up. No more.

Ignore it - I live opposite a school and even before I had kids I used to observe the mums and quite alot of it aint nice!

I also lived next to a school,(and do school run now) they're just people, no more two facedness (made up word) in the playground than there in many work settings.....

No, they aren't all two faced.

Many people in society are two faced, not just at the school gates, and they're like this because most people would rather be polite and pretend to like you even if they don't actually like you rather than showing that they don't like you.

Not everyone is like this though. It's like gossip, some people take part in it, others don't.

Well I'm not.

I turn up, exchange a few pleasantries with the mum's I know, kiss DCs goodbye and go to work.

Perhaps I'm just an anti social mare though?

Excuse the rogue apostrophoe - I don't know what I was thinking!

really sorry not for a second suggesting all mums are like this but there seems to be alot of it in the village I live in.

Maybe they seem two faced because school gate friendships are quite superficial but are very long term so its good to try to rub along with most people most of the time. If I am at school and one of the other mothers says something a bit contravertial but trivial then I will go out of my way not to get in a scrap with her because I will have to see her twice a day for getting on for 20 years.

huge huge huge amount of it in my kids school. best to take a step back and laugh.

I avoid all the little groups like the plague.They probably think I am v anti social, I don't give two hoots.I do however say polite hello/pleasantries ,I just don't get involved with the chit chat.