to dislike facebook moms showing piccies of their kids at sports day/winning football trophies/baking and just general boasting

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ok call me old fashioned but when did it become acceptable to just boast about your children winning things under the guise of being "very proud" which is really just a massive boast.
I feel sorry for these kids whose entire lives are played out on facebook statuses and videos.. when did we become so what I used to think of as "American"...!
So AIBU or is this just huge boasting???

Well done to Hulababy's little girl! You have every right to be proud and your true friends would have been proud too!

Ooh there are some jealous people on this thread!!!

Well done to your little girl Hulababy.
Being proud of your child's achievements is perfectly understandable.

Ah thank you. I am very proud :) was beaming at the time! Not quite so proud of my dodgy iPad typing and autocorrects though lol"0!

My parents watched too and their fb says similar too :)

yabu... that is all

Don't care if it is a boast, was thrilled to be able to post about my kid's javelin throw this morning at USA youth nationals. Anyone who doesn't like it is welcome to delete me.

not sure if you are old fashioned or just bitter and twisted? Why wouldn't you want to know about how well your friends' children are doing and congratulate them on their successes?

I know someone who documents what seems like her whole life on FB

1. meeting her now HB
2. Full blown account of her proposal , engagement and build up to wedding. Im talking everydetail.
3. Conception, pregnancy (day by6 day account) shit i feel like i carried the baby for 9months and birth.
4. Far too many comments of her children to the point where everyone knows the school, year teachers name of her eldest details and other details.

don't go on facebook. i don't. people are really going to regret giving away so much about themselves.

I don't mind seeing piccies of kids at sports day/winning football trophies/baking on Facebook, but is anyone else who is feeling deflated about their child's report finding it is rubbing it in a bit constantly reading how delighted and proud people on FB are of their child's amazing school report?

And my ds has just won his years science
Prize at speech day (dh texted)

So NER op.

Can't believe it really when we look at where he was a year ago

I boasted about my DS at sports day. He has ASD and almost completed the entire day, with 2:1.

My friend boasted, her DS won a race.

shrugs I was proud, she was proud. I was happy for her sons achievements, she was happy for my sons.

I like Facebook, I use it as a lighthearted diary. I don't post lots of heavy stuff, or criticism of other people, I post lots of photos of walks I've been on so I can look at them. As it happens, lots of my friends have told me that they also enjoy looking at them!

If I want to post a picture of DD with her swimming medals, I will. She has a disability and works very hard at her swimming, when she achieves, she wants me to show her Aunts and Uncles.

When DS1 found out he'd got a 2:1, I posted too. I'm really proud of what he's achieved. He has struggled with epilepsy since puberty and my friends all know about that. They were as pleased for him as I was.

BTW namechangeguy, 'retard' is not really an acceptable thing to say now we're no longer in the 1950's. .

yabu its good to be proud of your kids so long as you are not running other children down in the process. Not much different from them having their photos in the newspaper for local acheivments

We relocated 200 miles away when DD was 2. I've got FB friends with children the same age we went to Toddlers with where we used to live and I love seeing updates about them and what they've done, and getting to see how much they've changed. Before FB we'd just have lost touch in the day to day grind. They were babies when we left. Now they are proper little people.

I admit to feeling a bit when a girl we used to swim with has just got her 25 metres badge and my DD can't even swim a width without armbands, but that's life. I'd feel just as yuk at the school gate.

Some parents can be OTT about their children's many achievements but to be fair they'd be the ones sending the round robin at Xmas with 3 sides of A4 on how fantastic their children are.

YABVU. Are parents not allowed to be proud of their kids? Surely it's better on FB than in your face in the playground where you can't ignore it?

Haven't read the whole thread i confess but YANBU - we had reports yesterday and I only had to wait 10mins after school pickup for the flurry of 'so proud of x' and then quotes from the report. I can't stand the boasting!

My two both got great reports, I have no need to congratulate them on Facebook when they're not even on there!!! We'll take them for a family meal or day out as a treat.

YABU. This is exactly what facebook is for. If you don't like it, don't go on it. If you find someone's updates of their children overwhelming, hide the updates. Simples.

YABU. I post inane crap about my kids and my life on a daily basis on my FB page and couldn't care less who likes it or not.

I am 100 miles away from my parents, my mother is disabled and doesn't get out much and part of her evening with my father is reading thru FB updates of their DC and DGC and looking at the photos. We speak every day too but this gives her something visual to look forward to. Why would I deprive my lovely mum of something she looks forward to just because some random doesn't like it?

Mind you, I do not have 100's of fb friends to bore to tears, my friends on there are all genuine friends or family.