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reaclassification of MN sterotypes

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FluffyMummy123 · 29/04/2008 09:41

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FluffyMummy123 · 02/05/2008 17:20

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Turniphead1 · 02/05/2008 17:28

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WaltonAngel · 02/05/2008 18:24

Woah! Definately have multiple personality disorder!!!! . Can I really be walk everywhere, Every Eventuality, Ranting, Conspiracy Theory and Toddler Group Mum all at once?!!.
Started reading thread at wrong end but had to stop reading before I gained any more!!!! Have I missed gossip mum? Mingles with everybody and listens out with radar ears so doesn't miss any. And yes you've guessed it ~ so me!!!!

ALMummy · 02/05/2008 18:47

Stirring Mum.

Mum who asks "innocent" questions about or mentions in passing a person or situation she knows you are having problems with in the hope of getting you bitching about them.

I think I am a cross between newbie earnest Mum - always writing in homework comment book so teacher knows how SERIOUSLY we take AL's homework and school career in general and Mum who had her kids in the nick of time and despairs of ever looking young, fresh and not tired again.

FluffyMummy123 · 02/05/2008 18:49

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ALMummy · 02/05/2008 18:52

Cod - I AM stirring Mum but mostly with family members. Its more fun. There is always someone seething about someone.

Fullmoonfiend · 02/05/2008 18:59

Unfortunate-hat Mum. (AKA Twat-in-a-hat)
Has a variety of different headgear, depending on the season. Fake leather-look bushman's hat for very wet days, really awful Himalayan hat with ear flaps for cold weather; much-too-young-for-her baker boy hat for when she's been shopping in town.

Constant source of amusement for us...despite having empathy as it is miserable when you have a buggy and therefore can't put a brolly up...

Not to be confused with Beret-mum, who has a perfectly postioned beret in a variety of colours perched on her perfect amelie-style bob.

cocolepew · 02/05/2008 19:47

Falling For Stirring Mum Mum - thinks Stirring Mum is nice, and is interested in helping with her problems. Realises her mistake when the playground goes quiet she enters.

Lol at Twat in a Hat

cocolepew · 02/05/2008 19:48

WHEN she enters

Fullmoonfiend · 02/05/2008 19:55

(I am guilty of playground hat-twattism myself, as a pedestrian I have a variety of hats for bad weather. But they are all black and not toooo grim )

I mostly recognise over-explaining mum in myself though

DarthVader · 02/05/2008 19:58

Novelist mum
Constantly looking to pinch your life for her novel

FluffyMummy123 · 02/05/2008 20:29

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ipanemagirl · 02/05/2008 20:47

lol Twat-in-a-hat!!!!!
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ipanemagirl · 02/05/2008 20:47
Grin
Fullmoonfiend · 02/05/2008 20:49

YY, the one I'm thinking of also has a very odd white fake fur one with furry bobbles FFS, for when it snows....!

Fridayfeeling · 02/05/2008 20:51

Have you got Mum-who-leaves-kids-in-the-car because-she-can't-be-arsed-to-get-them-out?

Leaves a 1 and 2 year old in the car - probably for 10 minutes - out of car seats crawling all over steering wheel, dashboard and door handles.

Probably slightly paranoid about this since I did crash my mum's car when I was 5. Handbrake off, on a hill. Ride of my life !

Fullmoonfiend · 02/05/2008 20:54

oh and not forgetting Too-Cool-For-School Mum who (wearing sunglasses) very ostentatiously stands accross the road from school gate, tossing her hair and texting people, to show her utter distaste for the wretchedly un-cool mere mortals who, like, actually, stand in the playground? When, like, it's so uncool...

cocolepew · 03/05/2008 11:11

Militant Mum - stands handing leaflets out, for her 'causes'. Wears lots of badges and slogan t-shirts.

cocolepew · 03/05/2008 11:11

Militant Mum - stands handing leaflets out, for her 'causes'. Wears lots of badges and slogan t-shirts.

catok · 03/05/2008 13:55

psml at Topper Mum - she's the one with clean cream hall carpet (how?!!). She will half-chat - saying "Yeeees" on five syllables while planning her next move. Has been a SN governor for years, so thinks she understands MY child. Aagh!
Whatever Mum - couldn't care less what other mums think, happy to wear paint-spattered jeans to do the pick-up, works at local secondary school so will get revenge for all those evil glances later...!

cocolepew · 03/05/2008 18:31

Full Of His Own Importance Dad - rushes into the playground with one of those phone things (bluetooth?) stuck on his ear. The minute the bell goes he rushes out and into his company Audi. All the while talking into his Britany mike.

cocolepew · 03/05/2008 18:34

Feminist Mum - daughter always wears trousers instead of a pinafore, son refuses to have shoulder length hair. Her one concession to feminity is to replace her DM's with Birkinstocks in the Summer. And she'll roll her dungarees up a few inches.

ElizabethBeresfordSW19 · 03/05/2008 20:33

I have a bit of dizzy-mum and a bit of recently-single Mum about me. I pick the brains of Research-Mum.. What time does the school shut on thursday? When does the money for the school photos have to be in?
Luckily I am average-age mum, averagely-dressed mum !!

I seem to hate the house husbands too. There are a few, and I hate the way all the mums (Boden and Condescending) fawn all over them.

kaphc · 03/05/2008 22:01

How about Catalogue Mum .... works in direct sales and so is extreeeeemely nice to everyone, but then passes round catalogues to buy, fliers to host parties and is forever talking about how hard up she is and how much she needs this to work for her so that everyone buys her stuff out of guilt?

And also ... Parent Helper Mum .... goes into class to hear all the kids read, then oh so innocently manages to drop little snippets and tales of what all the children have got up to that day, somehow managing to make her child sound like they were in the thick of everything and did best out of all the kids. Also names and shames those kids whose mums DO NOT READ AT HOME but always preceeds the sentence with "I don't like to say this but .... "

ipanemagirl · 04/05/2008 10:50

kaphc, our school has banned any parent from reading in their own child's class because of just such indiscretion on the part of a parent. Such a shame.
It's a real shame because I loved helping in ds's class but was really careful to only praise children to their parents but tended to say as little as possible.