AIBU to be over the FB boasting about school reports today?!

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I LOVE FB - but seriously why do people feel the need to do this?

EVERY FUCKING YEAR.

What's wrong with them - can't stand competitive parenting and this is it at its worst - IMO.

Why can't they just share it with family?!

Have the urge to write passive aggressive comments on them all

Ok I am just a bitter twisted bitch maybe - yes I think I am :)

And breathe

I feel I'm missing out: nobody on 'my' facebook has boasted about, or even mentioned, school reports.

Maybe I'm hanging out with the wrong sort of parents?

I haven't seen any yet. When I do, I will just take the 'can't beat em join em' approach and claim that DS's report recommends that he skips the next three years of school because he's so advanced, DD is ultra gifted and talented to the point where she's taken over teaching the class etc

But isn't that what faceboast is for

I don't see the problem. Reports always contain positives now, so you can always find something to retaliate with.

Just 'teaching the class'? Really? My 6 year old is so advanced he will take over as minister of education after the summer. He can't possibly do a worse job than the current one.

I'm off to have a boast about DD1's INCREDIBLE Record of Achievement report from nursery on FB now.

Thanks for the tip

How can you not be happy for your friends ?

She'll only be teaching for a few weeks, because she's recently been elected EMPEROR OF THE WORLD

We got our reports a while ago I didn't feel the need to post on FB - although obviously there was plenty of material should I have needed to .

If DS2 doesn't get into Grammar I will have him adopted as he is the child I am hanging my hopes on for that announcement .

I have 6 so far on mine.

it's no worse than people bragging about being on holiday, or showing pictures of their new car/ house/shoes etc etc

It's what people do on FB.

And some might just be proud of their kids and wnat to share the news that their kid did well. Nowt wrong with that.

I intend to be doing this later. DS has had a bloody tough year and is in the process of being diagnosed for dyspraxia, and has been diagnosed with type one diabetes and hypermobility, within the last three months.

So fuck it, if I want to tell the world that actually he's the best reader in the class I will do. Equally I won't be offended if people block me over my child's boring school report.

Well I'm please for my friends and their children
I use to think I'm a bitch, latterly mn has made me realise that I am in fact quite a nice person

Whatever - people on Facebook - "Friends" ? - I thought it was just a long list of people who you'd ever met and wanted to show off to?

Op I feel your pain, the boasters are out in force this week. It gets me down as dd has sn and will probably not be as funny, clever, popular as some of the boasters kids

Thankfully no-one I know does this but all my friends thankfully are terribly british and therefore very self-deprecating.

Piglet, I'm sure your DD has great qualities of her own. Please don't get down by comparisons, as long as your DD is happy and making progress that's all that matters.

Incidentially, at DS's last school he was considered really clever, until he moved school and they realised he had a multitude of problems and is behind in every subject and can't write. Boy can read really well though.

I am concentrating on the positives.

It hasn't happened yet but it I'm sure it will as it did last year. I don't post about
school reports but I do post details of sporting achievements, awards and first steps etc but I'm not doing it to boast, I'm just updating family on what the children have been up to. I don't actually mind hearing about the outstanding school reports and SAT results etc, it is nice to hear from proud parents.

Facebook is how I update my family on my kid's achievements. We are spread far and wide over 3 continents and several time zones. It would take forever to try and catch them all on Skype or FaceTime and it isn't huge enough to justify a couple of lines long email but a status update is perfect to let them know how the boys are getting on. They do the same with their kids so it means that at this time of year I get an overview of how all the cousins/cousins kids/family friends kids are getting on.

Ahh rainier thanks . I posted a boasting statement just now on fb in faction to thisvregular boasters status

Exactly piglet. That's how I get through my week, that and a bucket full of wine - hey it's Friday

I only have real friends and family on my FB (though the teenagers do get tiresome and i'm tempted to block them sometimes )

On the whole I don't really mind them, I don't have random strangers listed as friends and I'm more that happy to click like for school reports, football competitions or swimming badges.

BUT

So far I've had one who mentioned being scared by amazing report and another who was frightened. I wanted to reply asking why? Did they think the teacher had put arsenic on the pages. Or had the teacher caught the child with an axe and the school hamster.

3 more, yes 3!!!! Who were in fucking tears about the wonderful reports, these were not children who had overcome a difficulty. Dear god get a grip.

2 out of the 5 couldn't simply say that Fred had just completed their A levels in year 6 and they were so very proud That I could take, well done. Oh no there had to be the false modesty spiel about how they usually had to try and not do proud posts. Either post with the facts and tell us, or succeed with your attempts at simple self control, like most of my other FB friends.