You really don't need to plaster your DC report card all over FB!

[Timeforanotherusername]

Just that really.

All it is doing is mazsagong the ego of the parent(s). And i don't really care how clever your kid is.

Most of my friends have got kids. I am sure the vast majority of kids got good reports. Its always the same handful of friends who need to boast about every single achievement of their genius child.

Rant over ha ha.

These threads pop up all the time on here. I often wonder just why it bothers people so much.

I have friends who did it. Family members too. I sort of roll my eyes and just keep scrolling. It's never bothered me enough to rant about it.

Why is it a big enough deal to start a thread on a chat forum about?

Well done to your DC @RagamuffinAndFidget 💕

One of the school dads used to do this with his older DS's reports. Funnily though it all stopped when the younger 'lively' one started school!

@DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult

Facebook is for sharing stuff - like being proud of your kids.

If it offends you delete your 'friends' or facebook in general.

^ This. I am proud of my DCs and if you don't want to share it with me then move on, nothing to see here. I am very selective who I have on my FB and also selective about who can see what post so it's not like I am spamming everybody.

I'm not on FB, can be a really unpleasant place...At best, I think it's really crass to put your child's report out there like that for everyone to see. Atm it's also extremely insensitive because as a pp pointed out most of our children have missed months of schooling, never mind a report. It's just bragging.

Would it be better if you met a friend for a drink and she told you about it face to face? What is it that's wrong about it? The fact that you're telling multiple friends and family members at once?

I don't even really tell people about my kids' reports but if I did, I can't see how it's any different than telling people on different, separate occasions.

I cannot stand the Santa’s been posts at Xmas. It’s like brag brag brag!! That’s only my opinion of course.

Isn’t this the whole point of Facebook showing off?
Not very exciting to hear about my typical day, got up did some housework, went for a walk did the ironing, pottered around the garden, made dinner.
Have I bored everyone to sleep yet?

I went out for a drink with a fellow Mum pre lockdown who I had thought seemed fun. Mid cocktails, she pulled out her DCs report card from her bag to show me. I was literally speechless and realised her and I were definitely not destined to hang out ever again.

@Timeforanotherusername - I am going to agree with you out of sheer gratitude for the lovely new word ‘mazsagong’ - inspired autocarrot!

Don't get me wrong - I do enjoy people's updates and i do like to see kids doing well. I occasionally share pics of my kids but don't do it often.

Its the bragging- and I mean constant bragging that annoys me.

And i don't think its appropriate to share certain things- and a picture of a report card is one of them.

I’m with you OP.

It’s highly likely that nobody cares.

Then again I doubt anyone cares about my cat/dog/horse photos, but that won’t stop me from posting.

Mazsagong is a great word.....I'll take bragging rights for that.

There are also quite a lot of parents whose kids are maybe not doing so quite so well.......how do they feel when they see it.

you do know that people don't need to live their entire lives and use FB just to please other people, right?

Scroll on by, snooze them, unfollow them, unfriend- whatever suits you.

Its one upmanship. So a parent will see another childs report and then be upset that the teacher didnt use the same wording on their kids report. Then the teacher suddenly gets a classroom of kids parents all ringing up, upset about their childs report because it's not the same as so and so's. This is why reports should be private.

Some people are addicted to posting stuff on Facebook,so no going back now. I guess putting stuff up privately for family is ok, especially putting your children things up. But posting open stuff up,is not good where children are concerned.

Some people put things on the facebook community page here, as in a photo of a cream cake,or a plate of biscuits,or a sausage roll that they have bought,and probably wait for all the comments, which are usually in the form of Wow,or Yum Yum ha ha.. all a bit mindless. !

I have a friend who has a son who is obviously their pride and joy. They post everything from school, swimming, boys brigade, drama, anything really. He has just moved up to a school with a bad reputation and I just hope to god he doesn’t get in with a bad crowd because I’m sure she won’t be posting that.

Things like this really bug me. My daughter has delays (possible autism, been referred for assessment) and when I see posts like this on social media by parents with children of the same age it makes me feel depressed. An old school friend of mine does this all the time and I’m thinking about limiting her posts so that I can’t see them.

They have every right to be proud of their kids but I wish people would have more empathy for those who might be struggling.

Maybe they should post their own work reviews now that would be interesting and at least their own achievement 😂

I mean I didn’t but one of my children is far exceeding for some subjects so I should of really just piss off people like op

Surely every child is still getting an end of year report? Shockingly bad if some schools are not. You don’t have to like everything you see in the internet op you can close it, unfollow or just scroll on by.

It doesn't bother me really, but what I've noticed on mine is that the people who tend to do that, the children really aren't doing that well, but also on more than one occasion thought "that comment doesn't actually mean what you think it means".

I’ve just learned dc will have reports on Monday. They’ve not seen their teachers since March so what a waste of time when they’ve been teaching through the pandemic. Why they prioritised this is beyond me.
Re fb posts - say you’re proud but don’t post their private report card. How embarrassing.

@PablosHoney

Maybe they should post their own work reviews now that would be interesting and at least their own achievement 😂

“Good worker, but talks about their children a bit too much”

It does make me laugh when people post about their reception child's report and how amazing it is. It's not like the teacher is going to write 'Arlo has been a bit of a twat this term, he can't put his jumper on the right way round and to be honest he's a little bit thick' about a 4 year old.