Laid Back Bristol Doesn’t Feature on Pushiest Mums City List

Are you a Competitive Mum? Not in Bristol:

Despite being a popular choice amongst families fleeing the South East, Bristol is not home to a significant number of pushy mums, failing to even dent the top ten.

According to research undertaken as part of movie I, Tonya release onto DVD, Cardiff is the UK home of the most competitive mums.

Sheffield came in at second, with Norwich in third. London only made eighth position and Bristol didn’t even get a mention.

The research of 1500 parents also found that one in six UK mums said they were ‘pushy’, with 59 per cent saying they were highly competitive.

Signs of pushy parenting include making your children sign up to every sports club and activity, going on school trips, adding carrot sticks to packed lunches, expensive birthday parties and smugness about aspects of parenting such as never using dummies.

The full list of signs you are absolutely a Competitive Mum are:

1. You’re prepared to pay any amount of money for your child to have the best birthday party (37 percent)

2. You make your child sign up to every club or sports activity going (34 percent)

3. Your Facebook feed is full of images of your child’s achievements (31 percent)

4. You upload a picture of the children’s pile of birthday presents to Facebook (27 percent)

5. You pay your children for good grades and sporting achievements (25 percent)

6. You do your children’s homework for them (24 percent)

7. You are fully made up in the playground at all times (23 percent)

8. You buy your children the latest tech (24 percent)

9. You talk loudly about how little screen time they are allowed (24 percent)

10. You send a Christmas round robin listing your children’s achievements (23 percent)

11. You’re on the PTA (23 percent)

12. You would not be seen dead in tracksuit bottoms or leggings at the school gate (23 percent)

13. You complain to the school regularly (23 percent)

14. You volunteer to help with school fetes, charity events and book clubs (22 percent)

15. Your children can ski and ride a horse (21 percent)

16. You set up a WhatsApp group for a select group of other school Mums (19 percent)

17. Your husband is a school governor (19 percent)

18. You put carrot sticks and cucumber into packed lunch boxes to keep up appearances (19 percent)

19. You never take the children out of school for family holidays (18 percent)

20. You’ve signed the kids up for piano lessons (18 percent)

21. You were the first to have your toddler potty trained in your social circle (18 percent)

22. You make birthday cakes from scratch (17 percent)

23. You find the time to go on school trips (17 percent)

24. You drive a 4 x 4 on the school run (17 percent)

25. You make them speak the language when on holiday (16 percent)

26. You make the outfits for school plays rather than buy them (15 percent)

27. You breast fed effortlessly (profess the benefits of it loudly) (14 percent)

28. You never relied on dummies (13 percent)

29. You tell everyone that giving birth wasn’t that bad (12 percent)

30. You’ve got canvas paintings of your family (8 percent)

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