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reaclassification of MN sterotypes

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FluffyMummy123 · 29/04/2008 09:41

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Janni · 29/04/2008 10:16

Single careergal with inadequate childcare. Child who just LOVES to play at yours...'You're just like an auntie to him'.

Grrr - not falling for that one again

FluffyMummy123 · 29/04/2008 10:16

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Fllight · 29/04/2008 10:16

Negligent mum.

child often to be found swinging on front gate chatting to/accosting random strangers with unwashed hair and felt pen on his face.
He is wearing inside out transformers pyjamas.

This is misleading as actually I have tried hard to dress him but he won;'t have any of it.

I have also offered to play with him but he prefers the strangers.

He secretly has 3 newish pairs of shoes but he does not want them on.

Mother herself has a bad haircut and biscuit smeared all over cardigan, is also permanently attached to a small baby who never seems to age and is wearing an also biscuity sleepsuit.

Her shoes are never done up as she was unable to do it in late pregnancy and has forgotten there is no longer a bump.

Janni · 29/04/2008 10:17

mine's interchangeable with your last one, icod

Janni · 29/04/2008 10:17

I mean the working mum one.

brimfull · 29/04/2008 10:17

library lil

her children have been going to story time at the library since they were 6 weeks old
she wears eco shoes and stretchy trousers that are way too short
she makes her jackets out of quilted paisley material

FluffyMummy123 · 29/04/2008 10:17

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orangina · 29/04/2008 10:17

I think I know every one of these types! Am finding smug mum almost intolerable these days (exactly as you say crush, choices change all the time as circumstances do, but she is RIGHT, and gives sympathetic smirk when you struggle on with your (inferior) choices...)

castille · 29/04/2008 10:18

false friend - have ditched one of those, very liberating

ideal home mum
lives in a white-beige house with landscaped garden, comments on your colourful decor

FluffyMummy123 · 29/04/2008 10:18

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orangina · 29/04/2008 10:20

stepford mum.

Janni · 29/04/2008 10:20

SAHD on the pull

brimfull · 29/04/2008 10:20

flight -lol

MamaG · 29/04/2008 10:21

oh NO I'm "unexpectedly pregnant mum" - but i wILL be going back to work

I know the other school-run=mums are looking at me thinking "fat get"

CrushWithEyeliner · 29/04/2008 10:21

LOL
Also - intellectual Mum:

Come on Issac stop watching LazyTown I have Proust here fgs!

brimfull · 29/04/2008 10:21

mr&mrs attached

do school run together ...why

NormaSnorks · 29/04/2008 10:21

OMG Janni - just found out that our school has one of those, and he has been VERY successful - shockingly so!

FluffyMummy123 · 29/04/2008 10:22

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orangina · 29/04/2008 10:23

Actually, most of the mum types that I know, were actually like that before they had kids, but the mother thing has just exacerbated it massively (thinking of my our local smug mum actually....) she was skinny, brainy, succesful, great clothes, and ALWAYS right. Now she is not skinny (too busy working to go to gym, shortly will be too busy devoting her all to the multiple children, etc...), au fait with every parenting theory going, whips up farking catering standard party food, and makes the rest of us feel like shite.
God, it sounds like I've got the problem not her (and it IS her, I promise...)

cornsilk · 29/04/2008 10:23

Uber fit mum
Does school run in tiny running shorts and sandals in October to show off her shapely legs.
(She exists - I have seen her)

Fllight · 29/04/2008 10:25

Janni I know. Hideous isn't it!
Ggirl - also have an attached family here, I wonder if it is the same one, they do everything side by side and it irritates the heck out of me.
'My husband is my life'
'My wife is my life'
'Our child is our lives'

I feel like tripping one of them over and seeing if the other one can stand up alone.

brimfull · 29/04/2008 10:26

got pregnant too soon mum-looks 18,she's standing in the playground thinking wtf am I doing here with all these old biddies

FluffyMummy123 · 29/04/2008 10:26

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CountessDracula · 29/04/2008 10:26

Class rep mum

Always haranguing you into doing stuff
has 93 kids at the school

Hassled · 29/04/2008 10:27

Exercise Mum - comes to school in skin tight lycra and barely stops jogging while she says goodbye to the DCs. Carries a bottle of water and an ipod wherever she goes.

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