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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had my second at 40. I'm 53 now. By my 40s, I simply did not have the patience for many other moms, much less mom groups. Too much backbiting, too much gossiping, too much unhappiness, too much willingness to sell out another mom's kids, too much of a tendency to talk badly about their own spouse and kids, too much comparison of each other's kids, too much bad energy. It's almost like if one of the women in the group was unhappy, then she worked double time to get the other women to feel unhappy in life, too.

Eh, no. By my 40s I didn't want any part of that stuff. Mature enough to sit by myself at the park with no problem. I had two moms in my neighborhood I would hang with at the playground, but otherwise I avoided these mom groups like the plague. Shudder.[/quote]

I had my first at 36 and went to some playgroup thing at LemonTree. I actually left before it was done. :D Life is short. Had my second at 40 but never attempted another mom group. (In college, I used to leave parties and bars by myself and go home to read if I wasn't having fun, so I'm no stranger of ditching boring or negative gatherings.)

Interestingly, I have found super reasonable normal moms at our local park, but we never exchange numbers, etc. My older kids is about to start first grade, we'll see how that goes... [/quote]

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