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So proud - share your stories that people would see as being boastful.

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botheritsgone · 05/04/2023 12:46

My daughter has been involved in a sport for a number of years. Hours and hours of training every single week, missing school mates parties, extremely dedicated. She loves it but it isn't always easy. There are injuries, disappointments etc but she keeps going.
She got selected at the weekend to represent her country. I am bursting with pride but if I put that all over Facebook I will be seen as boastful. Especially as some of her friends didn't get selected this time.
If my mum was around, I would have been chatting to her about it. I know she will be looking down on my dd with huge pride.
So I'm putting it on her, as anonymously to share how proud of her. Not just for the weekend result but for the rainy nights when she still goes to training, for the Sunday mornings when she would rather have a long lie, for the evening when her school friends ask her out to play but she is about to go to training. So proud.
Please feel free to share your stories of being proud of your kid's achievements. It is very much not the done thing round where I live to speak publicly about being proud about things like this. However, I am and I can't wait to see the next step in her development. Once I get over the shock of paying for everything that is!

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GMOOH2023 · 05/04/2023 13:12

I don't have any stories to share, but well done to your DD.

You are quite right to be proud.

mamacattiva · 05/04/2023 13:18

Honestly post away, not a long post but an acknowledgment of your DD’s achievement is not being boastful, it’s being a proud parent! Well done to your DD and also to you for giving up your own evenings and Sunday mornings to support her.

LateMumma · 05/04/2023 13:25

Well done to your DD, what a fantastic achievement! Definitely not boasting to be your DDs biggest cheerleader, I'd be shamelessly talking about this everywhere

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Wha · 05/04/2023 13:53

Congratulations, how dedicated you must both have been, and how wonderful to see her hard work pay off like that. Good luck with the competition.

And well done for resisting the temptation to put it on Facebook! 👏 Carry on resisting!

As for my boast? My DS will never make a sports team, or come top in class, but he is the kindest most gentle person in every group of people we encounter. He says please and thank you, is unfailingly obedient, has never hit or even shoved anyone, does his homework independently, is never late and is so witty that people love to spend time with him. I am insanely proud of him 🥰

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botheritsgone · 05/04/2023 14:00

Thank you! I know that in the past when I've shared things on Facebook, others have told me that I'm living through my child and I'm embarrassing. I don't think I am. I never did anything like DD. I'm just proud of her. It is very much her thing. She has inspired her younger siblings who have also joined the same club. DD2 has made the bold claim that she will go to the Olympics! Not sure about that but I am proud of their effort and determination. And yes, proud of DH and I for getting up early to be a taxi, arranging our work to suit training. It is a juggle and often inconvenient but seeing DD's beaming smile on Saturday makes up for all that.

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Tradeup · 05/04/2023 14:02

I don’t think an achievement of that caliber is “boasting” it’s amazing and would seem ignoring your child’s dedication and hard work not to acknowledge it publicly. My niece was chosen for the Team GB under 18s Pentathlon and my cousin and his wife told everyone and we all thought it was an incredible achievement. Considering how female athletes are being undermined so much these days I think it’s even more important that we publicly acknowledge them.

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botheritsgone · 05/04/2023 14:07

Wha · 05/04/2023 13:53

Congratulations, how dedicated you must both have been, and how wonderful to see her hard work pay off like that. Good luck with the competition.

And well done for resisting the temptation to put it on Facebook! 👏 Carry on resisting!

As for my boast? My DS will never make a sports team, or come top in class, but he is the kindest most gentle person in every group of people we encounter. He says please and thank you, is unfailingly obedient, has never hit or even shoved anyone, does his homework independently, is never late and is so witty that people love to spend time with him. I am insanely proud of him 🥰

Your DS sounds like a lovely young man.

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PeonyRose80 · 05/04/2023 14:09

This is awesome, huge congratulations to you and your daughter, you have every right to be immensely proud. I always cry at the Olympics because I feel proud for the parents who must be sooo proud.

My DD won’t ever play a sport or fit in because she is autisitic (yes diagnosed) and dyspraxic (also diagnosed) but am so proud of her this week for giving cooking a go, even though holding and pouring things cause her to wobble and be clumsy- so she has often given up despite a lot of encouragement….she and her dad made omelettes and a cake…..she was so proud of herself.

But I can’t ever say that to anyone because they look at me like I am just terrible for not teaching her these things sooner. DD is 12.

MelsMoneyTree · 05/04/2023 14:13

Congratulations OP! That is a brilliant achievement.

LadyMargaretDevereux · 05/04/2023 14:13

My dd is an amazingly good mum to her little dd. I love watching them together as they just adore each other so much. I like to think I can take some credit for that as well.

hellouthere · 05/04/2023 14:14

My children can speak read and write in three languages, I am proud that my eldest has now decided she wants to learn a fourth herself and has shown determination beyond her years so far. The first three languages they were 'gifted' as first tongues but, as a monoglot, I am in awe non the less. None of them have ever displayed sporting prowess in any discipline though 🙂

goodkidsmaadhouse · 05/04/2023 14:20

OP that is a fantastic achievement and well done her. My DD is involved in a competitive sport and one of her squad mates, if they continue on their current track, might well be in your DD's position in a few years. DD, unless she improves significantly, won't. But if her friend does then both DD and I will be incredibly proud of her and would absolutely expect her Mum to plaster it all over FB!

Everyone's DCs sound wonderful. I'm feeling very proud of all my DCs at the moment for various reasons relating to their perseverance, bravery and helpfulness. I don't put much on SM about them but DH and I boast to each other about them every evening before we go to sleep 😂

Nocaloriesinchocolate · 05/04/2023 14:28

Such a good idea for a thread. Yes, you’re right - its so easy to seem as though you’re boasting when you tell people in RL of your child’s achievements.

I’m bursting with pride over DS who, though only in his 30s, has just got a senior job in his profession that someone 20 years older would be happy to get. I have to keep biting my tongue not to keep saying “My son the XXX”!!

Bluevelvetsofa · 05/04/2023 14:35

My son was written off at school. If only those people could see him now.

Didiplanthis · 05/04/2023 14:45

My 11 yr old autistic son said 'thank you' spontaneously and meant it, after he was really upset about something and we talked it through with drawing and cuddles. He has never said thank you or even really acknowledged anything emotion related, ever before 😊.

WavingThroughYoWindow · 05/04/2023 16:57

These are all lovely!Congrats OP to your DD!🥳

I'm absolutely chuffed as nuts with my 2 boys aged 6 and 11. We recently had a parents meeting, and alongside other positive things they were both described as kind, polite, respectful etc. That made me so, so proud.

DS 11 was also described as having ' so, so, so much to say'.

DS 6 'can talk the legs off a pony'.

Both were severely speech delayed,particularly my eldest who has ASD.

I cried in the car, it was just so lovely to hear and felt like the years of struggling and hard work were just so worth it.

EnaSharplesStout · 05/04/2023 17:02

Well done to everyone’s children. Mine is tiny in comparison- my son (with autism, pda and ADHD ) has been fab recently- he has had his hair trimmed, learned to handle toileting himself and learned to tell the time! I’d be telling everyone but he hates it so I’m telling you instead!

My niece has also got a special commendation at school this week 😃 she is an absolute star.

Wha · 05/04/2023 17:15

Didiplanthis · 05/04/2023 14:45

My 11 yr old autistic son said 'thank you' spontaneously and meant it, after he was really upset about something and we talked it through with drawing and cuddles. He has never said thank you or even really acknowledged anything emotion related, ever before 😊.

That is adorable!

MyMachineAndMe · 05/04/2023 17:19

DC has had a short story published in this year's young writers anthology. This child has always hated writing and struggled with it so I'm so proud they have been chosen. It is a very good short story as well.

damnbratz · 05/04/2023 17:25

My niece, who lives with us on a Special Guardianship Order, and has done since the age of 5 is on course to pass all her GCSEs with 4s, 5s and 6s. Many of her friends and my friends children will get 7s, 8s and 9s so it seems like nothing to boast about but I am SO proud of her. She has been through so much in her short life. She spent just about all of Y1 under a table scratching people who went past and she still struggles with confidence and in social situations and yes, academically she probably could get 7s and 8s but when I think about that little 5 year old who had been in 6 homes in 10 months (parents, grandparents 3 x foster careers and us) I just burst with pride.

Mumski45 · 05/04/2023 17:39

Well done to your DD she has worked hard and you can take some credit for supporting her. I really do hate that is seen as boastful for us to be proud of our DC. I have 3 and am proud of them for different reasons but other than my Mum I am very conscious of not seeming to be boastful.

Usernamechange1975 · 05/04/2023 17:48

My DC has won a Rotary young citizen award. I really don’t know much about the award but the awards ceremony is on at the end of April , DC was nominated by a person in our community. I think it’s seen as a big deal.

GlassBunion · 05/04/2023 17:55

These stories are so wonderful to read. Thank you to all who have shared and all good wishes to your children.

MissMarplesGoddaughter · 05/04/2023 18:00

Congratulations to all the wonderful DC on this thread and also a huge pat on the back to all the parents / carers who were there supporting them every step on the way. You are not boasting or showing off at all. It's wonderful that you are proud of your DC and they know it.

Usernamechange1975 · 05/04/2023 18:05

They are all such lovely stories, @damnbratz your one made me cry ❤️. Best of luck to her once the exams start. xx

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