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on the web: MOTHERS ADMIT THEY CANT STAND BABYGROUP FRIENDS

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1281644/Mothers-admit-stand-half-friends-meet-having-baby.html?ito=feeds-newsxml


So what do you think? Is this article true??
Do you like the mums of your children's friends??

To be honest there are lots of mums at the school that I will say Hi to but wouldn't socialise with them out of that environment!

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  • yes, i would say hello, but not socialise with them. 
  • Its a really interesting idea cos its a bit like work mates - you kind of get thrown together and have to be friendly even if they're not really your kind of people.

    its nice on here cos you can you can socialise andask questions but dont get annoyed with other mums!  i do get a bit annoyed with the ones im still in touch with from when i was pregnant who ive not got much in common with.its just the way it works though, its nice to have people who are going through the same thing...until they're not...!

    haven' got to the school gates yet but i think it'll be the same, you choose your friends before you have kids and then they choose your new friends for you!

  • exactly kayley!!

    Before children I had a group of friends, now I don't see those, I just seem to be running around after the children making new 'aquaintances' as I go.
  • I bet it is true that a lot of people at school and nursery pretend to like each other. That's just normal life, but it's a bit sad that the article says so many of them bitch about each other afterwards.

    At nursery and even year R I was a bit anxious that I didn't have much in common with many of the mums and that my children wouldn't have many friends because of it (silly I know). But it just took a while to get to know people, and you're often surprised by who you do end up making friends with (not always the people you think at first, like a really quiet lady who out of the blue was a real angel when I was ill in winter)

    Still, maybe best not to be 100% frank with people all the time. I've Just had an awesome email to all of the parents in the school from one of the other parents, telling them to 'stop whinging and start supporting the school'. Ouch image
  • sarah - I agree bitching is not the best thing to do if you don't get on with someone, but truth be told we all do it at times - even if its just a moan at hubby!
    I too have made some great friends because of my kids, but also some that I wish i'd kept clear of!
  • ooo yeah i should say too- some mums i made friends with int he last few years are my best friends and i coulnd't have got through it without them!

    the article says mums dont get on with over half which is prob right but maybe a quarter are good friends so its not all bad!

  • Must admit,I'm very very lucky,my eldest is best friends with a set of twins-and their mum has been my Rock for the past year or more,she is always there for me,I would actually class her as one of my closest pals,and it's our sons that ''made us friends''!!image

    They will attend the same school,and as I have to take the youngest to playgroup a mile or more away,she is already offering to collect my eldest,I'm so lucky to have made friends with herimage

  • Not all of them, I tend not to see the ones who I don't really get on with any more. My decision was pretty much made at my hen night when some of my mum friends were acting all 'high and mighty' around some of my work pals who were having a good night. I realised we had nothing in common and stopped inviting them out.
  • I met a group of mums at a postnatal group and 7 of us have stayed friends after 2 and a half years!!  They are really good friends now and I don't know how I would have coped with out them.
  • The mums I met at my postnatal group were ok, I never met them outside the group - I was the youngest (at22) and I felt they all looked down on me.
    Funnily though, 4 yrs later I met them all again when the children started school, I get on better with a couple of them now, but the others I am so glad I never got close too!!
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