Guest post
Dear Mums in the Playground…
Posted by
Kathy Brodie on February 2, 2016.
This is the next in the series of blog posts from Mrs M, about her life as a mum of a son with autism. She has been sharing some of the roller coaster of emotions that happen behind the closed doors of family life.
This month Mrs M shares her feelings about her playground experiences. I think you will find them thought-provoking and moving, whatever sort of mum you are. Here is her story:
You may not know me well but I was that mum that skulked past you all with my head hiding under my umbrella, or under my hood just to avoid having to talk to you for many years.
I was that mum that the class teacher always wanted to come and talk to at the end of the day, with a knowing look that something had happened that she needed to tell me about.
I was that mum whose child who stopped getting invited to parties.
I was that mum that never came to the PTA meetings or mums nights out, who wasn’t part of any mums ‘group’.
I was that mum who was often running late in the mornings, looking hassled and exhausted at drop off time so never had the time to say hello to you.
I was that mum who ‘let’ her child hit her whilst trying to get him in through the school door in the mornings kicking and screaming.
I was that mum who you would whisper about to each other that should discipline her child better.
That’s me. I was that mum. (more…)