Dear Miriam: Mumsare snooty; ADVICE.Byline: DR. MIRIAM STOPPARD Dear Miriam, My three-year-old-son loves going to our local nursery but I hate it because the other mums don't want to know me. It's as though they're a secret society and I've got to a stage of thinking about keeping him at home so I don't have to face the misery of being ignored. How can I break in and make them accept me? Kat Dear Kat, The school drop-off and pick-up can be a frightening experience but please don't deprive de·prive v. 1. To take something from someone or something. 2. To keep from possessing or enjoying something. your son of his happy time because of a gang of snobby snob n. 1. One who tends to patronize, rebuff, or ignore people regarded as social inferiors and imitate, admire, or seek association with people regarded as social superiors. 2. mums. If they're cliquey, do you really want to be their friends anyway? You could ask your son which of his friends he likes best and invite that child over to play. Chances are his mum is nice and she will loosen up when she's away from the rest of the clique (mathematics) clique - A maximal totally connected subgraph. Given a graph with nodes N, a clique C is a subset of N where every node in C is directly connected to every other node in C (i.e. C is totally connected), and C contains all such nodes (C is maximal). . |
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