I have seen so much bragging about people’s children doing things ‘early’ or ‘better’ since DC were born. I saw a video a while back of a woman bragging that their child had never had a tantrum. A year or so ago I saw a Facebook post from a dad bragging about how his child ‘slept the whole night’, ‘ate anything they offered her’ and was ‘always smiling’ and people responding about how she is a miracle child etc.
But why? I don’t go for a job and say ‘well I started walking at 8 months old and I used to eat all my vegetables’. It doesn’t have an effect on life, just because your child starts talking a month before the national average doesn’t mean they’re going to become something special? I did loads earlier than my siblings (youngest child syndrome) and they’re all much more accomplished than me 😂. Why are parents so competitive about who does what when? Who sleeps through the night, who doesn’t tantrum? All of those things are perfectly normal for children, I don’t get the competition? By the time they start school, who gives a toss when they started sleeping through the night? Do some parents genuinely think they have better genetics because their kid will eat broccoli and prawns? Or because they pulled themselves up at four months instead of five?