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[quote=Anonymous]A lot of moms are chill but some are so un-chill that they can overtake friend groups or school communities. And no it's not just a mom thing or a woman thing, there are Main Characters everywhere, but if you are a woman with young kids then you usually spend a disproportionate amount of time with "other moms" so that's the group you are going to focus on and their behavior is going to impact your life more.

This past school year I wound up in a school community with a mom whose behavior was so far away from chill that it wound up impacting me, my kid, multiple other kids in the grade, their parents, several teachers, school administration, counselors, etc. She's just one person and yet she wreaked so much havoc. That's why this is a problem. Because it only takes one.

Though, actually, it's not just one. A big part of the problem is that these "big personalities" often bully, manipulate, and cajole others into supporting and enabling them. The administration at our school gave this mom accommodations that are explicitly against school policy simply because she badgered them until they gave in. I saw teachers take out their frustration with this mom on other parents because they were afraid of her and they were easier targets. I saw this mom spread unkind rumors about A CHILD in order to get her way on something, and other parents who knew what she is like passed those rumors on even though they should have known better. There were actually a lot of moments during the course of the year where, if someone had simply held a firm line with this woman, she would have been forced to back off. Instead people gave in (often because she is an expert at "incentivizing" people via threats, both direct and implied) and every time this work, it empowered her.[/quote]

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