To tell these performance parents ...

[pieceofpurplesky]

To shut the fuck up?
In A&E with DS waiting for X-ray results with two very vocal performing parents.
'Look Livvy the book has a chicken. What does a chicken say Livvy'
'Oh Livvy you are so clever'
'Livvy look at the nice nurse. What does a nurse do Livvy?'.
'Stop walking away Livvy, I am reading a story. You need to listen Livvy it's a good story'
And on and on and on

All poor Livvy wants to do is bash a toy car on a table and play with a teapot.

Or Da-ad, whichever is the ringleader.

It's a clash of personality types perhaps. Laurie Yes some people are naturally loud and gregarious. I can't really disagree with that to be fair. It would be a boring world if we were all quiet introverts.

Come on, I definitely haven't seen anything like that, you are making this up as you go along, @DriggleDraggle this is completely ridiculous. I think if I ever see this happening I will post it on here and confess I was wrong, but I think it's just an assumption that total strangers even care what you think.

I think it just shows how few people in this country actually want to learn another language.

You will know it when you see it.

I haven't seen any in ages.

Sorry it's because you mentioned Latin, @DriggleDraggle I wonder if you'd even know that's what it was, did you ever learn it??

Okay, cross post. I just would never automatically assume that such a parent was looking for me to notice. That's not to say it wouldn't annoy me, and that I wouldn't move away.

If you have to wildly exaggerate the point in order to make it ...

Only on page 1. This thread is hilarious. Haven't laughed in ages.

As I said, if I ever do see it I will own up to it on Mumsnet, and take back everything I ever said about not believing it.

It's not something you see every day without fail.

Get yourself to a zoo/stately home/museum and there's more chance.

or the food aisle whereby mom or dad proclaim "now child of mine shall I tell you a secret... mommy is going to be super lazy today as I just don't have time to make home made pasta - now I know you love homemade pasta but lets cheat a little today and see if we can pick up some nuvole here in Asda...(parental glance around) All the while 2year old child is looking longingly at the tins of alphabetti spaghetti

*It's so sad that interacting with your children in public is now seen to many as "performance parenting".

Except that it’s not. At all. As has been said. Repeatedly. 🙄🙄🙄

Maybe so, I'll keep my eyes open. I do think, though, that some people are simply very socially inept and don't realise how embarrassing they are (my DM is a prime example of this!). Like those people who use their mobiles in a crowded train and shout into their handsets, ''I'm on the train.'

There used to be quiet carriages, I wonder if that's still a thing??

Museum and art gallery. Full of the fuckers

Yes, museums and art galleries are rife.
Do make sure you don't count the H.edders in with the PP though.
It is an obvious thing though, I can remember dd asking me why mums were talking in loud voices and explaining everything when their dc were toddlers and wouldn't understand.
You may hear the H.ed parents talking, but it will be focussed and probably topic based rather than random showing off.

Performance parents tend to parent toddlers, kids over 5 tend to squirm and flee or protest loudly, depending on temperament.

Pp do my head in. There is definitely a difference between talking and engaging with DC's and pp. I'd love to see them try it when DC's are teens.

For those who have never seen a PP, get yourself to the V&A or Tate Modern any half term and I guarantee you will see more PP's than not.

My 8 year old loves hearing performance parenting. She finds it hilarious and whispers the answers the child would want to say back. It’s makes an outing for us.

I know performance parenting when I hear it, most people do - but some people clearly don't want to acknowledge it on this thread for "reasons". I don't actually hear PP very often but I think it often stems from insecurity which comes off as arrogance.

I am reminded of my son, the human version of Edmund elephant (from Peppa Pig), who even as a young child would perform his cleverness when he was feeling a bit stressed or unsure of himself. So I feel slightly more indulgent of PP - they are just people who are misguided in how they think they should present themselves to the world. It's irritating to be trapped in an enclosed space with some pp's though.

Oh god. So you get slated on here for engaging with your child now?
I always chatter away to my son, better than ignoring them!