To be pissed off with people "testing" my son?

[hoovercraft]

There seems to be a thing here amongst one or gtwo of the parents - I have had a few "test" my ds.....asking him his spelling test results, asking him to do quick maths and even writing. This is done when he goes to play and they are trying to compare their own child's abilities.

The child is in year ONE ffs...leave him alone

AIBU in thinking this is really really U?

I have seen it, I have been told and I have a few other friends who have seen it and told me. I never ask my son or try to glean it out of him.

WHP.... there's differance between chatting to a toddler and mentioning colours while you play and spending 15 minutes interrogating her: 'What colour is this? Where's the blue cup? Where's a red plate?..... [on and on and on]'

Was feeding newborn ds1 so couldn't snatch dd away any quicker but the poor child was baffled!

What very odd behaviour.

I am glad I live where I do and ignore most of the rest of the world, it suits me well to let this kind of rubbish pass by. I am not sure which is most insane, the fact that it is not ok to ask a young child what book they are reading when they visit or the fact that people think it is so terrible that they would report back to the parent about it!

A friend of mine from first ante-natal class days used to drill her (apparently gifted genius of a) son on maths and science and computers in front of me and my DS when they were about three. It was very tedious, and boasting by stealth. I stopped seeing her in the end. Yes, he was a clever child by all accounts, fine, but she just became bloody insufferable with it. She managed to shoe-horn the fact that he was gifted into every topic of conversation no matter how unrelated. Tres dull.

lolol at Fellation rifling thorugh book bags on a playdate you nutter! My SIL does the same, shamelessly, to compare the comments from the teacher.

I haven't dsone it for years Getorf. I was young and insecure. Now I don't really give a stuff about what anyone else's children can or can't do compared to mine!