Which type of WhatsApp Parent Are You?

Which type of WhatsApp Parent Are You?

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
For schools, yeah, if you're part of one of these,
I mean you're probably part of WhatsApp groups anyway with
all your mates.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Right, hates of groups?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
None for kids, yeah this, yeah, they are full on
max I and I am obsessed with iwan. We've got
a WhatsApp group at our school called Parents of Kids
of thirty two.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Right, it's all mums.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
There's about sixty people in there, and it is excellent.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
So class of thirty two as in it's everyone in
the year.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah, and we'll have this because they're in year five now.
We're going to have this until year twelve. And I
just started at the school and I am one of
those parents that cannot keep up with communications. So I
rely heavily on this to give me everything I need
to know about life and school.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
What is shared in these well, the most.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Latest thing in mind was FYI, the next PEG Parent
Engagement Group meeting is Monday, the eleventh of August.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
At eight four.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Guys like it's literally little reminders.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Like that would want to miss the parent engagement me.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
But what I love about a little WhatsApp group, especially
for parents, is there's five kind of people in there.
I've just read this article and I'm gonna I'm going
to read it to you because it's so relatable, okay,
and you can probably relate it to your own WhatsApp group.
All right, So in every WhatsApp group, there is a
drama queen. She is the one that communicates in capital letters,

(01:35):
and sometimes she copies in the Principle and the Board
of Governors, and she's really annoying, and she'll start a
sentence by saying, I'm frankly appalled dot dot dot. And
that's the kind of person that we then start a
side group chat to talk about that person because they're
quite annoying.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
And they're frankly appalled. Are they usually frankly appalled about
things that are very minor?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Oh so minor? Who has time to worry about that
kind of stuff?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Frankly appalled that someone put peanut paste on the sandwich?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Be busier? Yeah, okay, okay, this one I relate to
the disengaged parent, say no, hasn't read a message since
twenty twenty one. I will often over my WhatsApp group
and there's one hundred and fifty six messages there and
I'm like, oh crap, Okay, look, look they have no
idea what's going on on casual day. Their kids will
rock up wearing uniform because they aren't up to date

(02:23):
with everything. They mean, well, right, that's I do relate
to that. There's always Max, a loan dad. Right, there's
only ever like one, maybe two dads in these groups,
and they've been added to the group by they're quite
often their ex partner, and then they're trying to keep up.
They're trapped in this vortex of women just talking about
uniform debates and beno boxes and they don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
What's going on in one of those as the loan dad, right, okay,
will you as a loan dad and Hayley as someone
who sees them, do the loan dads ever contribute or
are they just what?

Speaker 3 (02:53):
They don't contribute? But they'll always ask questions and they're
always so grateful as well. They'll thank everybody for giving
them the information they need, which is really nice. There's
also the lurker. I also strongly relate to this one.
They pop up once a year with a message like
his band practice can tomorrow night, even though that discussion
would have happened about fifty messages ago.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Oh, they don't pay attention.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
They only care about what they care about. They'll just
quickly ask, I'll put it in there because they need
to know the answer straight away.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I think I would be almost that person.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, we lurk. And then there's always the ones that
are only there for the wine, so they don't comment
on anything school related. But as soon as someone says,
are we going to catch up Friday night? They do
capital letters.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yes, teach house seven pm, old.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Pockets come out of the woodwork.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
They are I think that people could relate to most
of those.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, there's always and there's the oversharer as well. People
love to overshare things that no one else cares about.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
I care about that.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
So an overshaer in a school group I'm imagining is
someone who's sending pictures like from what their kids are
doing at home. No, I don't care about this is
business only.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Thank you, It's I just want to know the important facts.
Tell me what today is, what I need to bring?
Is it harmony day? And when is my next parent
teacher interview?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's all I need to know brilliant. There's six of them. Yeah,
very clear WhatsApp types.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, and you know they're a little bit annoying. Yeah,
what's the worst type of parent in your group chat?

Speaker 2 (04:17):
What do they do?

Speaker 3 (04:18):
They're the kind of parents that you have a side
chat about. Thirteen one two three.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
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Speaker 2 (04:27):
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