Comments on: Friday’s Rants from the Soap Box in My Living Room – Offended mother at the school gate… https://catskidschaos.com/2013/08/09/fridays-rants-from-the-soap-box-in-my-living-room-offended-mother-at-the-school-gate/ Cats, kids, coffee and chaos Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:32:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jenny from Cheetahs In My Shoes https://catskidschaos.com/2013/08/09/fridays-rants-from-the-soap-box-in-my-living-room-offended-mother-at-the-school-gate/#comment-1885 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:32:38 +0000 https://madhouse.chocolateboxstudios.co.uk/?p=3041#comment-1885 It sounds like she’s the one with the problem – if it was the children we’d say rise above it and go with someone who can be civil but still always be polite. However, we all have to function alongside people who aren’t as socially capable as us and showing your children that you can still be polite, honest and sociable is a really important skill for them to witness and learn from…even if she can’t do the same

]]> By: mummybarrow https://catskidschaos.com/2013/08/09/fridays-rants-from-the-soap-box-in-my-living-room-offended-mother-at-the-school-gate/#comment-1882 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 12:44:34 +0000 https://madhouse.chocolateboxstudios.co.uk/?p=3041#comment-1882 What a shame.

I would ask her, politely “do we have a problem here?” and see what she says.

]]> By: Nina https://catskidschaos.com/2013/08/09/fridays-rants-from-the-soap-box-in-my-living-room-offended-mother-at-the-school-gate/#comment-1879 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 07:50:40 +0000 https://madhouse.chocolateboxstudios.co.uk/?p=3041#comment-1879 It’s not you with an issue, and it’s not just you that it happens to. A very small number of the general population (including the Mums at school) are badly mannered, OR socially ignorant… I cant work out from your description which case this is (and the two are not mutually exclusive). But either way, the problem is theirs & should be pitied somewhat, because it happened in front of the children. Which parent looked like the one with a problem on the bus/on the walk home? Which one was giving her children a terrible example of how to conduct themselves? Not you…. If somebody cant manage a small-talk conversation (under ANY circumstance) in front of their own kids, then that’s just very sad. I believe you should continue to say hello, to smile and to join her group conversations. If you don’t, you’re lowering yourself to the child-like level she’s inexplicably set. Raise the social-training bar for her kids, as she seemingly cant manage it.

]]> By: Ian Bishop https://catskidschaos.com/2013/08/09/fridays-rants-from-the-soap-box-in-my-living-room-offended-mother-at-the-school-gate/#comment-1878 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 07:45:59 +0000 https://madhouse.chocolateboxstudios.co.uk/?p=3041#comment-1878 Just forget her. She is not worth the time of day or the air she breathes.

]]> By: AtoZ Mummy https://catskidschaos.com/2013/08/09/fridays-rants-from-the-soap-box-in-my-living-room-offended-mother-at-the-school-gate/#comment-1876 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 06:18:25 +0000 https://madhouse.chocolateboxstudios.co.uk/?p=3041#comment-1876 Oh my word, what a horrible woman. I want to give you a big hug (and her a smack in the face tbh). I would find this situation really, really hard to deal with and I don’t blame you at all for having an anxiety attack, it would really mess with head. What you say is right though, forget her and don’t acknowledge her again – she is obviously a plonker xxxx

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