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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]mom of single DD here.  Like all generalizations I think this one has a kernel of truth, much as it kills me to admit it.  Must be why almost all my mom friends are the mothers of boys only, much to DD's chagrin.    :wink:  "Why do all your friends have boys?"  in my experience, they are more relaxed and they have less time for bs politics, which I like.

the one conflict that's come up with another mother was with a mother of 2 girls.  She was a total social engineer as described previously - trying to fight her kid's battles etc.  I'll go further though and say in my experience, it's mainly SAHMs of girls who social engineer and create cliques - the rest of us are too busy for that kind of bullshit.

*waits for the screams of outrage*
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SAHM here.  Not outraged, just kind of amused since work status doesn't seem to define the social engineer moms at our school.  WOHMs, SAHMs... doesn't seem to matter.  The Queen Bee factor doesn't seem to discriminate, at least not based on work status.[/quote]

Mom of all boys here whose family is heavily involved in an industry that is almost exclusively girl customers.

That poster is dead wrong. This behavior by moms is VERY equally distributed between working moms and stay at home moms.

It is also equally distributed between moms of all girls and moms of mostly sons, particularly in cases where there is more than one son and only one daughter, and the girl is mom's bff and favorite.

It is equally distributed between girly girls and jock type girls.  It starts around third grade, sometimes in second with the girls who are more "grown up" or worldly than their peers.

The moms least likely to do this behavior actually are moms of more than three kids. THOSE moms are the ones who are truly too busy to engage in such nonsense.

Don't kid yourself that this is a stay at home vs working mom issue

It clewrly is not.[/quote]

Are you responding to me (the immediate PP) or the PP before me?  Because I believe I said exactly the same thing you did - that Queen Bee moms can be either SAHMs or WOHMs.[/quote]

I am agreeing with you and expanding on what you said.[/quote]

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