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Everybody loves my friend's daughter - aargh!

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BoundandRebound · 31/08/2013 10:23

According to my friend, every conversation about what her 8 year old is doing from music lessons to drama to school to walking into a restaurant involves the phrase "they absolutely love- adore x in there"

It's nice

But wearing

My child of course is just background noise

OP posts:

pictish · 31/08/2013 18:09

Yup. There really is no other response is there? Wish my friend would accept that and stop her self indulgent daughter related bollocks. It's nuts!

givemestrengthorlove · 31/08/2013 18:20

Mardy is moody

Charlottehere · 31/08/2013 18:23

Some people are naturally charismatic. I have a friend who people are drawn to....she is a pita but you gotta love her.

AgentZigzag · 31/08/2013 18:25

It's much easier to gush with the click of a mouse Non, than put all that effort into pretending you think the same.

I'm sure she was just keeping family up to date (which I actually enjoy and react to when my family members talk about their DC )

dufflefluffle · 31/08/2013 18:25

I have a friend like that - her dc is nice enough though not outstanding in anyway - but I feel her constantly drawing attention to his likeable-ness is reassuring herself that he is perfect!
But I do agree Bound that it is tedious and irritating.
My own DC are perfect and adorable and frankely utterly amazing - but I think I have the cop on to realise that that is pretty much from my and their fathers (and maybe grandparents) point of view only! (and so only brag occasionally inside my head.

AgentZigzag · 31/08/2013 18:26

That was to nonalphamum, I wasn't saying it's easier to gush with the click of a mouse, non?

Growlithe · 31/08/2013 19:13

snice that's what I would mean by mardy as well.

And when you think about it, it's no surprise these children are mardy when they enter an environment like school where they aren't getting constantly put on a pedestal like this.

Also in the case of the woman I know, she finds it very difficult to hear any news that her DS is at all struggling when she goes to parents meetings. In fact, she was convinced after the last one that he must be dyslexic because he wasn't progressing with his reading quite as fast as expected and he was writing some of his letters and numbers backwards. Even in that circumstance, he must be different and special, rather than the same as most reception children.

Runningchick123 · 31/08/2013 19:39

The meaning of Mardy depends where you are as it has different meanings.

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mardy

It can mean sullen and sulky, cry baby and wimpish and other similar stuff.

Growlithe · 31/08/2013 19:48

TBF Running - all of those meanings apply to the mardy boy I was talking about.

KhloeKardashian · 31/08/2013 20:21

Sorry to say it, that Woman will bore the pants off you for life.

A wife of exh's friend, was like this over her children, gushing about cute things they did or said, that were not different to other children I came across. I found her quite freaky. When my children met her newborn they were not allowed near it unless their hands were scrubbed in antibacterial wash and she examined them. Fair enough, I thought till she let the dog slobber all over the childs face, the dog had been licking it's bollocks a moment earlier. She also got irate at the pronounciation of the child's name, correcting us, and giving evil stares, she kept misprouncing my child's name even though I kept saying it properly in the hope she would catch on, she didn't!

Well at her wedding, her Father bored the pants off everyone, we were actually taking the piss out of him and yawning and all sorts, we were young after an hour of him gushing about his wonderful daughter, we lost the will to live and no longer cared that he was paying to entertain us, he was a boring weirdo, who seemed too in love with his dd if you catch my drift!

I boxed her as someone I steer well clear of.

coco27 · 31/08/2013 21:07

YANBU. There isnothing more tedious than a parent banging on about how wonderful their DC is
Just smile inwardly thinking about the fall she is setting herself up for when her child (being human) ceases to be so perfect!

znaika · 31/08/2013 21:25

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AgentZigzag · 31/08/2013 21:37

'an hour of him gushing about his wonderful daughter'

I'm sure you're exaggerating about it being an hour and it just seemed that way, but I think this sounds lovely, and appropriate.

A Dad saying how proud he is of his DD and how much he loves her at her wedding and you're suggesting incest was behind the sentiment.

Even if it's a lighthearted comment, there are some things you don't make light of.

InSpaceNooneCanHearYouScream · 31/08/2013 22:01

I'm with you OP, I absolutely cannot stand people who constantly boast about how marvellous their children are! Did nobody teach them it's bad manners to boast and show off??? It's rude and immodest

FutTheShuckUp · 31/08/2013 22:26

What a childish post Khloe

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