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[quote=Anonymous]All the posts about mom cliques and girls getting left out have me thinking about my situation. I’d like to be friends with the other parents but I just don’t have any time to put in the effort. My job is exceedingly demanding — I work all hours and I travel a lot. During time off I’m barely keeping my head above water doing all the other stuff that needs to happen for our lives to run. Plus I’m older and have many of my own friends from pre-kids, and my husband is very introverted and makes it hard to make “couple” friends.

For my older kid (rising 3rd), the moms are all friendly to me at school events but they rarely invite DD for playdates. I recently saw one of the moms at church and our kids have been at school together for 5 years and she didn’t even recognize me. For my younger DD who just had her first year of PK, I have no idea most of the parents names or their kids and haven’t been to most of the school events. This DD hasn’t been invited to any playdates or parties this year.

Do you have moms like me at your school and what do you think of them? I want to make an effort to turn this around in the next couple years and make at least a few parent friends at my kids school and help my kids develop a more active social life outside of school. How would you go about this? It’s a good time for me to put in the effort because older DD is starting at a new school next year and younger DD will be in an entirely new class of kids at her preschool.

Thanks in advance! [/quote]

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