I am a mother to a 1 year old and I am shamelessly obsessed with my little bundle. I can talk about her all day - but there is good and, well not so good. I am a realist, not a fantasist.
Since joinin the mothers brigade I have noticed many, many mothers (even celeb- infact celebs are the worst!) seem to constantly want to compete and boast about how wonderful their baby/ toddler/ child is.
As there years go by, it seems to be the general consensus is that babies are born with their own innate temperment. I am not saying that nurturing a child is not important (obviously) but I think generally kids are who they are -and parents nurturing simply aids their personality to flourish.
I suppose parents could boast that their kids inherited their fabulous genes, but generally a calm baby is a calm baby. Just like a hyper one is hyper. Its often not down to the mother, so why boast how your dc sleeps all the time and is so chilled and never cries and can recite the alphabet in Latin, at three.... Haha
I know I may sound chippy, I am not. My dd is over all a very happy toddler. But I accept whilst some of it is obviously me, a lot of it is her having her interests met and her being her!
AIBU to get rather bored of all this incessant boasting, would I be ok to next time scream : "Your little Tarquin never cries and slept through at 2 weeks and walked at 8 months and recites the alphabet backwards and is really chilled an happy and ... And ... Well its practically cos of genes woman! How do you explain you nightmare daughter ?"
Ahhh. Thats better.