Different Types of Suburban Moms

You'll Relate on a Deep Level to These 11 Moms You'll Find in Every Neighborhood

If you're lucky enough to move into a neighbourhood that's chock-full of kids around the same age as your own, you'll know there's a price to be paid for the easy play dates, convenient carpools, and abundant kid fun. And that price is that you're going to have to interact with all kinds of moms that live footsteps away from you — and could pop in at any given moment. Some you'll love, some you'll tolerate, and some you'll try to avoid at all costs (could it be that they're also avoiding you?). Here are the 11 types of moms you're likely to meet in your neighbourhood. Which one are you?

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1. The Outnumbered Mom

Overwhelmed is the name of her game. She probably should have stopped before she had that last kid, but now she's totally outnumbered and feeling the pain of too many mouths to feed, bodies to cart around, and tiny people to make happy. Most often you'll see her in the same yoga pants she was wearing yesterday.

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2. The Open-House Mom

Her doors are literally always open, with neighborhood kids, moms, relatives, repairmen, and people you don't recognize going in and out of the house all day long. You can't quite figure out how one person needs so much human interaction, and you're a little wary of letting your kids join in on the circus that is her home. Of course, they're dying to join in.

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3. The Carpool-Lover

She never signs up for a single kid activity without checking that at least one of her neighbors is enrolling as well. Carpooling is her life, her sanity saver, and the only way she finds time to get her kids' laundry done. Let her know if you're thinking baseball or soccer for the Summer, and she'll sign up, too!

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4. The Rule Breaker

She doesn't give a single f*ck what her neighbors think of her, and she shows it by letting her kids run around naked in her yard, ride their bikes without helmets, and "babysit" their baby brother in the front yard totally unsupervised. While you often worry about her kids' safety, you have to admire her lack of conformity.

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5. The Play Date Pusher

She really wants to get together, like really, really soon. You appreciate her hospitality, but you're reluctant to commit to bestie status quite yet. No one should be that into play dates, and you're pretty sure that once you say yes to one, the invitations will never stop.

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6. The Know-It-All

She's lived in the neighborhood longer than anybody, so she has an encyclopedic knowledge of all your neighbors, including their kids' ages and favorite hobbies, what they paid for their homes, what work they've put into them since moving in, and who can't stand whom and why. She's the perfect person to fill you in on the neighborhood landscape, both physically and emotionally, and she's more than willing to pass along her huge knowledge base.

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7. The Ghost

You know she exists, you've met her kids and they seem pretty normal, and you've heard rumors that she once made an appearance at the neighborhood Summer party. But this woman seems more like a shadow than an actual human. Maybe she works long hours and has a terrible commute, maybe she's just not that social, or maybe she's actively avoiding you. Regardless, you're dying for a spotting, just to confirm that she really exists.

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