Hurrah for the holidays and a silent Whatsapp
The summer holidays are finally upon us, and as our children grow ever louder, the class Whatsapp group does, at the very least, fall silent for six, blissful weeks.
A Mumsnet debate has apparently been raging, with users describing the different types of mums you get in every school Whatsapp group. There’s “the informer”, “the wind-up merchant”, the “flaky mum” and “the health-scare mum”.
I’d describe myself as the “I-haven’t-got-a-clue mum”, on account of the endless messages I send asking about inset days (why so many?), sports days (when is it again?), and what day I happen to be on the Play-doh rota (so I can nip down the shop and buy some, secreting it into a ziplock sandwich bag, so I can pretend that I made it myself).
And to think that I volunteered to be Parent Teacher Association rep at the beginning of all this! Thank goodness another mum, with older children in the school, took pity on me pretty quickly and swept in to save the day (take over).
But the most irritating thing about these Whatsapp groups? The fact that they contain no dads. Next year, my husband’s going on instead of me, so I can go back to messaging my friends about Love Island in peace.