I've known a couple of people like this over the years but at the moment I have one friend in particular who does this loads, and tries to make everyone else convinced he is too.
I met her at a baby group. There are 8 of us all with DCs the same age (3). I have two older children too. She in convinced her DS is more intelligent than the other children in the group. She often does a round-robin type text to us all saying a question or statement her son is meant to have said, usually involving a very complicated word such as preposterous. And if he asks a question when we are at the group, as many of the 3 year olds do, she starts asking us if we heard his question, and saying what a clever question it was, then she answers questions using a very lengthy reply during which time he has generally walked off to play and doesn't listen anyway. Latest thing is her asking on her Facebook status if anyone knows any private tutors that will tutor a 3 year old as he is apparently marvellously curious about maths and science. And I've never known such a fuss over finding a school for a child. She's talked about nothing else for months and apparently it's far more difficult for her than anyone else as they have to be very careful about where they send their child.
I'd say that he is probably quite average, and very similar to the rest of the children in the group, including my DS. His speech just seems normal for a 3 year old, he walked at the same time as the other children, potty trained at a similar time. I never hear any of these wonderful anecdotes of speech that she writes about in texts when we meet up, and his speech whenever I see him is just the same as the other childrens' speech. He talks well, as they all seem to in the group, but certainly not like a child prodigy.
I know we are all proud of her children and think they are geniuses but she really does cross the line between thinking it and making a bit of an idiot of herself.
AIBU?
To find it quite amusing how some people try to make out their average child is a genius?
MiketheKnight · 26/11/2012 08:40
Yy to that lapdancer. A relative took her child to a load of schools for admission and was telling me about it. She said the child didn't like X school. I asked why, and child cut in "Oh I hated that stupid school. They don't have a test". She was FIVE 
. Clearly the mother had been telling her that good schools select children based on tests. Mum was beaming with pride.
I recently read an interview with Alicia Keys that amused me greatly- apparently she writes songs with her 2 year old son, and he has been composing his own from 6 months old 
Also, he is learning Mandarin because he is very advanced
I think it's sweet that parents could think so much of their DC's in a way. It's still funny though. 
When my DD was in her first school christmas play she was picked to play Mary. I heard from soneone who worked at the school there were some parents trying to get their DDs the part. What they didn't realise was she was given the part because it was non speaking. DD had severe speech delay.
She is now 14 and seems bright enough, predicted to have A* on her exams, but seems incapable of putting her dirty washing in the basket
Well, my son points to a picture of a sheep and says 'baa' he is clearly a genius. the fact he says this to every picture of an animal is entirely beside the point
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