To be in awe at what a show off this dad was

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I'm just back from taking my youngest to the paddling pool/splash park at the leisure centre. It's for under eights, so the morning session is full of the usual assortment of parents with babies and toddlers

This very muscled, tattooed dad was there with his toddler son. He was definitely performance parenting, chucking the child around, hooraying all over the place, and quite obviously looking round to check that everyone else was watching him. He was being a bit of a pain, to be honest, perching on top of the giant mushroom spouting water thing, jumping off, making huge waves which caused a mini tsunami to hit the babies in their floaty things, that sort of nonsense. I could see a few of the other mums rolling their eyes. The pool is not huge and is really not the place for that sort of bouncing around.

Imagine our surprise when this idiot then dropped to the ground in the shallowest end of the splash pool and started doing press ups complete with loud grunting and hand claps, and yells of "come on, Child's Name! Time me, time me! Huh! Huh! Huh!" I think he got to about twenty

Child in question was sitting under a stream of water looking utterly baffled.

Everyone was like this

Bloody press ups in the paddling pool!

Brilliant! What a twat though!

Time him? Do you time someone doing press ups? Surely you count them?

This was actually my husband and I'm very proud of his parenting actually. We had a lovely time out

This has made me proper belly laugh

I really hope @anitagreen is serious omg

It's really rude actually so what if he wants to do press ups in the water like a seal lapping on dry land, have you never seen a press up before? The mind boggles honestly

🙈🤣@anitagreen

Im joking I'm sorry I've had a shit day and I'm so bored he sounds like a right bell end though Op.

I think it must have been the same guy at a music performance I went to at the wk end.....

Can you actually imagine having to co-parent with.a twatbadger like that? Poor Mrs Peacock

Haha! I just imagined this and snorted tea out of my nose!

I love it when this type of thing happens it makes my day and I am utterly fascinated

I've just laughed out loud reading some of these and the cat's giving me strange looks! She's now hiding inside the wardrobe because my laughter is clearly upsetting her.

@foreverhanging are you my DD from the future? I can see DH pulling some shit like that

Reminds me of the bloke who followed his child around the playground wittering constantly to show how engaged he was with his kid. It was like a neverending stream of verbal diarroeah leaking out of his face.

A dad used to come to parents evenings and other events in his police uniform complete with stab vest , radio etc etc he'd walk around and pose trying to look important and sexy. He only managed to get to prat in how I look ranks.

I've come across these types, competitive parenting. There's the sporty ones, the academic ones (teaching little Fred gcse astronomy at 9 despite the fact they are just memorising the answers) competitive baking of course for the cake sale and the biggest competition, the outfits for the nativity play!

@rosedream what a twat. We call them 'uniform hangers' (also v v dangerous with the current terroism threat level)
Guarantee he's the kind of prat who waits for someone to ask him what his job is at parties. Yawn

These stories are brilliant and tiresome.

We went to a park last summer and sat near a mum, dad and their clearly PFB. We were happily munching our sandwiches when a deer came into view.

The parents went into circus mode. There was jumping and galloping and calls of “ LOOOOOk, look at the deeeeer, Constance! Can you saaaaay Deer? Are you a deer? Are mummy and Daddy deer?” (This was accompanied by the daddy holding two sticks up to his head as antlers)

They did provide good entertainment but Constance fell asleep before the squirrels came to check us out.

I love a competitive parent. I remember one sports day where the mums and dads all used to take part in a sprint race. One of the mums was a fitness instructor and obvs took it very seriously.

So seriously in fact that she tripped over and landed straight on her face which resulted in a huge graze on her chin for weeks

I used to work in a busy bar in a theatre and you would get these types in all the time “that’ll be £11.50 sir” “ how much change will that be Charlie l, if Daddy gives the lady £20” Give me the money and take the change you utter twat, there are 200 people queuing behind you!!

I recall a good one. One sunny day DH and me were on a river cruise in Bath. I am HOPELESS at reading Roman numerals, and it's a standing joke between us that I have to consult a lot of old books for work and frequently call him to translate the numbers into Arabic for referencing purposes.

So, here was DH on the boat, trying (probably in vain, because I'm numerically illiterate) to teach me. And bless me if Performance Dad in the seat behind didn't pick up on the conversation and start trying to teach his son too. What he hadn't bargained for was that said smart kid starts asking him nigh-on impossible questions about huge reams of figures, and it was obvious Pratty Dad was getting increasingly out of his depth as we sat there sniggering. To keep his end up he answered the questions anyway in a confident manner (as DH, grinning his face off, kept pointing out to me that they were wrong).

Didn't he look a prick. And oh how we laughed ...

I'm pretty sure you go to the same splash park as me

Come on people keep these peacock stories coming, they're hilarious. One year 3 mum was asked to leave a secondary school tour when the teacher realised that her child was only 8. Who visits secondary schools 4 years ahead? Loads of things, positive & negative, can happen to the school in that time.

Purlease, pretty please go back this time next week OP and video him. And then out it in YouTube. And DM me.the link. I BEG YOU!!

I do like to make a good meme (to impress my' oh so cool' teenagers)... And I really really want to see this. I'm imagining but I bet the real thing is far funnier!!

Anyway, please make Mrs WillLoki and her teenagers very happy!!