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Hello. This is six minute English from BBC Learning English.

I'm Neil, and I'm Beth. Do you remember your 1st day at school?

Now yes, I do. I change schools quite a lot when I was a kid, so I had lots of 1st days, and they were never

easy. How about you bet? Well, my mum always tells the story about how I was crying a lot on my 1st day, but apparen'tly.

As soon as she left, I was quite happy, so my mom spent the day being a bit sad, and I was completely fine.

Well, yes, starting school and making new friends is difficult for many children.

But it's not just the kids who find it challenging.

For mums and dads who drop their kids off at the school gates in the morning and pick them up again at the end of the school day, making friends with other mums can be just as hard.

Here, BBC presenter Nulle mcgavin discusses this problem using the term mum friends.

So if you are a mom dropping off or picking up the kids this week, how do you feel about hanging out with other mum friends?

I find that term kind of interesting as well.

Mum friends that ever call friends called mum friends.

Do you struggle to make those relationships, or do you thrive on them?

Or are you perfectly happy without them?

Mom friends are usually the mums of other children in your child's class at school.

They might go for coffee together, help out with babysitting or chat about being a mother.

But is making new mum friends really the positive experience?

It's often described as or an additional stress for already overworked mothers?

That's what will be discussing in this program, along with some useful new vocabulary.

And if the idea of mum friends is new to you, why not take a minute to read through the list of vocabulary before you listen?

It's easy to find on our website, bbc learning english dot com.

Now, beth, I have a question for you.

Another term often associated with mom friends is play date, a time that paren'ts arrange for their children to play together.

But according to the Oxford English Dictionary, where does the term play date come from?

Is the origin in a Australia?

B New Zealand, or C The United States of America?

MM, I'm gonna guess the USA.

C Okay, feeling confident? Yes. Well, we'll see at the end of the program.

For some moms, dropping their kids off at school reminds them of when they themselves a little and under pressure to make friends.

Listen as mom Jane Cherrington Cook describes these feelings to BBC Radio four program Woman hour The School Gates take you back to being back at school.

It is like you said, high school.

Cleak it. You've got the sporty moms over there, you've got the glam moms over there, you've got, you know, and if you don't fit into one of those, it's really, really difficult to navigate.

And yet you're all there just because your children were born in the same year.

It's a really weird thing, jane says, that mums often form clicks, small groups of people who like spending time together, and seem unfriendly towards others.

E.g., at jane's daughter's school, there's a click of sporty mums and a click of glam mums who put on makeup and dresser.

Jane uses the adjective glam as a shortened form of the word of glamour, meaning attractive and exciting.

Problems start when someone doesn't fit into one of the cleaks.

If you fit into a group of people, you feel you belong and are accepted, probably because you are similar to them.

So some mums feel rejected from cliques and worried about their children being left out of play dates.

But other mums don't mind. If people want to be friends, that's fine, and if they don't, that's fine too.

Being a man is hard enough without adding more stress.

Jane definitely belongs to this group.

She explains to BBC Radio Force woman's Hour.

I think I'd had, um, some really bad experiences at baby groups where you're trying to make your child do yoga or paint when they're four months old, and trying to bond with these other women.

And I just thought, this is ridiculous.

And I pretty much straightway realized it was gonna be just down to luck if I met somebody that I clicked with.

Jane says it's down to luck.

If she makes mum friends. If you say something is down to luck, you mean it depends on chance rather than any skill or effort you make.

But there's always the possibility you'll meet someone and click with them, become friends as soon as you start talking.

Well, I know something that isn't down to lucknail.

The answer to your question? Ah, yes.

I asked you about the origin of the term play date.

Which country does it come from?

I think it's the USA. Well, beth, you

are right. So well done. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, play date was 1st used in the Lincoln Daily Star newspaper in Nebraska, USA in 1915.

OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned stuffing with play dates, an arrangement that paren'ts make for their young children to play together.

A cleak is a small group of people who spend a lot of time together, and may seem unfriendly towards other people.

Glam is

short for glamorous, meaning visually attractive and exciting.

If you fit into a group of people, you belongs to you, and you'll be a you're not a similar to them.

If you say something is down to luck, you mean that it depends on chance or luck rather than on the other Or if that, you'll make it.

And if you click with someone, you feel a friendly and positive connection when you meet them for the 1st time.

Once again, our time is up.

Why not head over to the public' learning's Ins to acquit and worksheet for this program while it's still fresh in your mind.

See you again soon. Goodbye for now.

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