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[quote=Anonymous]OP-- totally empathize! My NoVa public school bus stop was the gathering point for my kids' public school's queen bee moms and they were awful. I alternately worried that my kids had provoked something with their peers and blamed myself that the  queen bees excluded my older child because I didn't fit in. Of 12 families I was 1 of 2 who didn't linger at the bus stop but instead went to work afterwards. I made small talk but just had no contributions to conversations regarding highlights and Botox which were group concerns so found myself talking to the dads about politics and the law which of course made the queen bees roll their eyes.  I let them win and just started driving the kids to school. The kids choose different friends anyway and the mean moms could not hover over middle school relationships and the kids developed great relationships. I was so worried that the mean moms attempts to ostracize my DS (one tried to exclude my DS from cub scouts- another mom called me to tell me thee Cub Scout leaders wife was making a point  of specifically naming and explaining which boys should be excluded because they were too loud etc) but I have come to learn that the mean moms were ostracizing themselves from the people who would become my closest friends. So, my advice is that it gets better and that it is OK to take yourself out of the game.[/quote]

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