Competitive parent comments (just for fun)

[prettymuchapixiegirl]

A few that I've come across:

"I love the way your DS is happy sitting in the buggy. My DS is never happy just sitting there like that, he is so grown up and needs constant stimulation or he gets bored"

"Oh DS, look at that slop that Pixiegirl's DS is eating, you're wondering what it is because you only have big boy food don't you?"

"To be honest I'd much rather have a child who's more average, like your DS. I think being so advanced is going to bring my DS nothing but problems when he gets to school"

All said by a "friend" who is lovely in many ways but also very competitive and our meet ups are frequently spent with her reeling off a list of what her DS is now doing, or by her making out that there's a problem because she thinks he's doing things so early....

What competitive parenting comments have you all come across?

I had a baby tooth removed at 17 So DS 'late' teeth not really figured as important to me.

Just never really realised - until this thread! it really is used in competitive parenting. I mean FFS there teeth.

Ooh..was about to get all competitive and say I lost my last baby tooth aged 36 (which I did). But then I realised this might not be the thread to do that on !

It's been so long I can't remember the details, but in one of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, a right-on mother at a festival is overcome with pride when her son wins a prize for being 'the least competitive child'.

I loved that even before I had children.

Oh something has just come screaming back to me.

Lasy year took DS on holiday to a family hotel with a kids club. He wasn't really that interested and preferred the pool. After each session there would be dc's proudly showing there relaxed tanned parents certificates they'd got for 'fantastic drawing of...' or 'winning...'. One mum asked DS if he had a certificate and he said 'no' and just wandered off uninterested. She turned to me and said 'don't worry they give each child one for something as a reminder of their holiday'. ;OK' I reply really not bothered.

On the last day DS went to club whilst I packed and cam out with a certifcate for ......... 'taking part in the minibeast challenge' . Other mum saw and and took it from DS to see what it was for. Not sure what to make of her comment which was 'well its good they've noticed he made an effort to join in with other children'

This thread is soooo funny !

I have a very competetive parenting friend that insits on trying to start conversations so that she can boast about her bright 18 month old.

Maybe I should tell her that my 18 month old made a three year old boy cry the other day by hitting him . Mine is so advanced!

Seriously though I remember feeling so happy when I saw the relief on one mums face when she asked if my then 6 month old slept "through". When I pulled this face and told her no, not by along shot, she seemed to take a deep breath and I think maybe it hit her that other mums were stretching the truth a little bit!!

My kid shits gold bullions.

Close the thread.

Haven't really come across too much competitive parenting as hate people like that. The one occasion that springs to mind though is when DH and I went to see MIL in Kent and she had invited her neighbour's child over (who was IMO no more advanced than BabyGrylls). She started boasting that her child had started crawling at 5 months although isn't it funny she wasn't in the mood today and guess what she had 3 teeth already.

Ever since then DH and I ask how superbaby is and when she is planning to do her MSc in astrophysics. Awful woman.

DD is good at most things apart from PE, in which she's utterly crap. I was the other day when a bitch competitive mother told me that DD had done better than her DD in a Maths test because her PFB was having an 'off day'.

I honestly don't give a shit if DD's not top of the class - as long as she does her best, that's good enough.

Right, I missed out some of the thread, so apolgise if I am repeating.
My mother is very lke some of these comments - obsessed with academic achievement - I could read at three, (apparently), and easily got scholarship to selsective private school at eleven.

My son is not gvery academic (I refuse to say bright, as he IS bright in many ways).He talked early. He walked at 9 months. He is what you might call a bit thick but achieving average scores nationally now in terms of maths and literacy, so good on him.

What he IS good at is sport. Another school rang our school and asked if my son could be dropped from football team for league matches as it "wasn't fair as our kids aren't as good and when he scores six goals it's demoralizing". I actually said "No. I want him to play". Sport is the only thing he's REALLY good at.

But when I say "really good" I don't mean I think he's going to become a professional footballer/runner. He's not BRILLIANT probably. It would be statistically unlikely. I just think he's better than most in this one area, and if he does well at school, maybe he can work in a related field, like PE teacher or sports physio.

Apolgise for typos.

Oh - and he's nice too, and has lots of friends, so that's good - bit worried about the fact that he is apparently in a long term relationship with a girl in his class (he's ten!! and her mum is a tiger mum! )

"x thinks Ds2 is so clever!" posted my friend as a status update on Facebook. He was 11 months old! She didn't get any comments . She's really competitive but does it covertly.

Catnao my mum was like that.

She used to tell anyone and everyone that my DB could tell the time at 3.

When we were adults I asked her one day who had taught him. Her reply "you did".

It didn't occur to her that it was a bit special that a five year old could teach a three year old how to tell time.

Wow! I am so excited that my post has come out green. I had forgotten I had gone into customise to add colour to my posts.

My aunt was incredibly competitive. All her children were geniuses in every possible way. Her best, though, was that her second son spoke in complete, and grammatical, sentences at the age of 6 months. yeah right.

My cousins and I are pretty much of an age. That boy, who was soooooo brilliant, even by the standards of her other children, has spent most of his life as a hopeless alcoholic. (He is very kind and charming though, and his wife and kids adore him.)

I agree with Canella. Nothing wrong with being proud of your child, as long as you don't put other children down by doing so.

Can I - or rather - DS have the tooth prize please? He is 6.5 and has yet to lose a tooth. A boy at school whacked DS in the mouth last week and now he has a wobbly tooth, to his great delight.

ladyinpink
DD said to me "When I grow up, I want to be a nobody, just like you Mama".

I think I would prefer to be a maid.

I think I was the only mum in our "group" who din't know what group my children were in for literacy & maths.
Well they are in primary school & the teacher hadn't told me of any problems so I just assume they're doing fine.

I discuss them at parents evening. Both are doing fine btw.

I am back in the world of bitch & titch groups.

These are FABULOUS for competetive parenting syndrome.

My 22 month old just plays. Not interested in all the arty stuff (thank feck, I just chuck away all the "works of art")

Other mother bellows "isn't yours doing a picture. Mine has just done this" She holds aloft a picture she has just lovingly stickered herself.

I sit back & watch the competetive parenting while mine eats the plastic toy I have told him is cheese. He is a bit silly & doesn't yet understand the difference bewteen real cheese & prentend cheese.

I bloody previewed that bloody message as well

No wonder my dd is so crap at spelling.

think you're ds deserves the tooth prize mmelindt!! may he hold on to them & his beautiful smile for a long time.

A good friend o my dh's
As my dd (aged about 1) took a toy from her ds (about 18mo)
'Of course ds isn't agressive at all because he hasn't gone to nursery'

Slightly off topic, ex friend's vile MIL was forever comparing her GCs to my DD- the youngest was 2 weeks older than DD.

Constant digs about the size of DD compared to her dainty dollies (both prem). I was far too timid to challenge her at the time, even when she saw DD at around 9 months and said 'ooh, look at her, she's like a baby elephant!'

Would love to bump into the bitch now that DD is taller, slimmer and prettier than anyone in her festering gene pool. Vengeful, moi?

dd broke her leg when she was four and was off school for a few weeks. One of the other mothers brought her son round to play on day. Now dd had been off school and fairly immobile for several weeks at this point and was bored, cranky and in pain. She threw a huge tantrum whilst the other mother was there and dp had to remove her to another room to calm down. Other mother turns to me and says 'I'm so glad I didn't have girls'

Another mother at toddler group has a baby the same age as my ds2 and 9 months younger than another mother... both of us are having speech issues with our boys. First mother never shuts up about her dd's talking... ever. Into every conversation is interjected comments about 'X said ___ the other day' and this has been going on since she was less than a year.... drives me mad as she knows full well we have speech issues (in ds2's case his speech may always be problematic) but keeps on and on and on and on about how fabulous her dd's speech is. I've even resorted to saying 'Yes, dd and ds1 were freakishly good talkers too, both started at 6/7 months and were stringing words together at a year (all true)... pity it didn't indicate any great intelligence with them [forced smile hoping she'll take the hint]'

Competitive grandparents here - my dad and his friend have 2 the same age and she constantly asks him - is little marrow using sentances? is he toilet trained? does he know his colours etc..

she has spent the last 2 1/2 years trying to get them in the same room together to compare but so far things keep croping up to prevent them meeting

I can be quite competitive, I was particularly with my first. She started talking at 6mths and now at 3 has the vocab and understanding of a reception age child. She is also hyper mobile and didn't crawl until 15mths and walk at 21mths, so she had to have something I suppose. She ate well, slept well, was potty trained poo wise at 7mths, dry comepletely at 2 and was perfect in everyway. People always commented and being the proud parent that i am loved it. My second was born (a boy this time) and thats when karma kicked in, my once perfect princess is a little cow, wakes up in the middle of the night, eats what she wants when she wants and screams all the time. I thought my son would be just as perfect as my first, well I was soo wrong, he is a lazy screaming whining little brat who now has learnt to walk, follows me round the house shouting at me. he is 16mths and wont say a word or babble and expects everything to be done for him. I have a speach therapist friend see him for me and his understanding is good, he is just lazy!!

So if you meet a competitive parent especially if they only have the one child, just think when the second comes along or they just get a bit older that the bubble will burst. Mine did!! xx