I'm so tired of mom cliques

Anonymous wrote:OP here - it's funny to see this thread revived here almost a year and a half after I posted it. It's funny about a year after I posted this, I actually did make a few "mom friends" at my kids' school, and then we moved away and the one mom I've spent more than 3 minutes talking to so far told me how super cliquey everyone in this area is.

So...what I've decided is that I'm not even going to bother with the moms here. We're new. We'll host playdates (my kids are older ES now, so parents are likely to just drop them off), I'll volunteer if I have time, but I'm not going to actively try to make myself friends and I'm definitely not going to befriend anyone on social media!

I've also slowly started unfriending casual acquaintances from my old area since I was never really friends with them, and don't really care anymore what they are up to.

I'm trying to be healthier about it, I guess. With that, I hope we can close this thread down!

My oldest is now in high school. You don’t need to be friends with your kids’ friends’ moms. You should be friendly and acquainted.

I’m still good friends with several moms I met when my high schooler was a toddler. I made lots of friends when he was a toddler, in preschool and early elementary.

My youngest is now in elementary. I didn’t really make friends when she was in preschool but I made a strong effort when she was in kindergarten. I’m friends/friendly with many moms in her grade. The daughter is not necessarily friends with the kids of the moms I am friends with.

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