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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our PTA president is like this. Some moms like her but a few of my friends and I see right through it. She is very, very wealthy but kind of high strung and nervous about everything. This plays into how she gatekeeps. She puts on the front of inclusion for the sake of her PTA role, but it’s so obvious she enjoys orchestrating who gets into the circle. To be honest, she’s just very ungracious and probably having fun with the power of her husband’s money…she wouldn’t be anything remarkable without him and probably knows it. [/quote]

Sorry but this screams of jealousy on your part PP.
If this lady cares enough about the school to take on the PTA role and her “husband’s money” affords her the time and inclination to devote her volunteer time to the position rather than hanging out on the tennis court or sipping cosmos at the country club, then good for her.
And so what if she keeps a tight circle?—you don’t like her anyway, and maybe she can tell! If she picks up on your disdain and envy enough to want to keep you at arms length, could you blame her?
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+1. I love how these envious loners are completely obsessed with the dynamics and personal lives of the cliquey parents they TOTALLY want nothing to do with. :roll: So creepy.[/quote]

You’ll be shocked to know we are wealthy too. I don’t dislike her because she doesn’t have to work. I don’t like her because she makes inappropriate comments about other cultures, outed another child’s medical emergency at school on a grade wide parent group chat, and has shown disdain for disabled children at the school. None of these relate to my own kids. I can buy a big house like hers. I just don’t like cruel women. [/quote]

Why do you know what her house looks like? Because you cyberstalked her and her husband? CREEPY af.[/quote]

This [/quote]

Calm down. Kids are on the same sports team so been to her house. [/quote]

I could totally buy a ritzy house like them but we don't want to. But let me brag on a message board that me and my husband are rich too. We're just stealth rich.

Sure, Jan. :roll: [/quote]

Being the rich kid can be positive or negative. For my boys, it doesn’t seem to matter and the kids like to hang out at my house as we have a 5000sf basement and a pantry full of snacks.

For my daughter, I think some of her friends can get jealous of all the things she has. We like to dress comfortably but she has a very full closet. Some girls don’t invite her over after coming to our house.

For the boys, they may say Mikey lives in a mansion and wants to come over. [b]The “popular” girls at my daughter’s school are not all the affluent girls. They aren’t necessarily the prettiest or smartest or athletic either. It seems more personality.[/b][/quote]

NP. They’re the boy-crazy girls.[/quote]

I wouldn't have understood this a few years ago but you are totally right. It is wild. Starting in third some of the girls start becoming boy obsessed and these are the girls who kind of manage the social scene for the next few years. My DD was your for her grade and I think entered puberty a bit later even for her age, and was mystified by the whole thing. At one point a girl at school was asking her if she had any crushes like once a week, and DD was always like "no, I don't think so." The girl told her "ok tell us when you get your first crush, we can't waste time on this," and then they refused to hang out with her at recess for the rest of the year! DD handled it fine, she had other friends, and this has actually become a joke in our family now, but I had no idea about this dynamic of the girls who start puberty and become interested in boys first having more social caché. I didn't remember that from my own elementary school experience but, like DD, I was a late bloomer who just did not care about boys at all in elementary school.[/quote]

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