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

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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.

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

See I disagree with this. Someone will always have it better and someone will always have it worse.

It’s so easy to not see people’s FB posts that it’s actually a bit silly to think they lack in empathy.

It’s for sharing their lives, however they choose to.

And you have the choice to just unfriend or unfollow!

I haven't read the whole thread but I completely agree with you OP.

I had a friend once who brought his child's report card to the playground and asked to show it to everyone he bumped into. The kids were 4 at the time, we all had 4 year old kids. It was before social media was such a thing to be fair.

It’s funny though, the people who do it on my timeline are all SAHP. I wonder is there a correlation? Just thinking out loud!

And one year, the Queen Bee tried to insist we all open them together when teacher handed them out. Poor (young) teacher was begging us not to. Most of us were a bit I will admit.

I just think it's very embarrassing for the children to have gushing parents. They can tell people who are genuinely interested and involved and hide it from the rest, surely. However I hate facebook anyway so who am I to judge.

Their page, their choice.

Scroll past, unfollow or unfriend is your choice.

I could say I don't want to come on mumsnet to see people moaning about people's posts on Facebook or I could say what I said above or not comment at all.

Just wait till they get to High School. You then have to put up with braggy parents posting on school twitter sites how marvellous their kid is. Such as posting their out of school sporting achievements, then the school retweets it, sucking it all up. Every school has these type of parents.

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.

I have one child who's reports are mostly 'exceeds expectations' and 'working above expected level' and one child who gets mainly 'below expected level'. The second one actually works a hell of a lot harder! Am I allowed to brag?

Oh I'm getting this at the moment on a what's app 'moms' group for 3 year olds it's the funniest thing to read everyone fawning over each other. No gives a shiny shite what other peoples do

I haven't opened my kids ones, think I'll burn them

I agree. Nobody cares about your children and how well they've done. Family members might, so send it to them in a private message. Otherwise, why post it? It's weird and attention seeking.

@DDiva everyone gets a report. The last few weeks of school have been essentially keeping them occupied, not pushing the curriculum.
From a primary school teacher fed up with the complaining parents

It’s absolutely ridiculous!

I put a post saying how proud I am of my daughter, she’s autistic. It also allows our distant family to see how she’s doing, which is nice.

You could say the same about any type of post, food for example or relationships etc.

Facebook is Mummy's little boasting book 😂😂😂

@DDiva

I find this particularly annoying at the moment. Those with kids at school sharing how wonderful their report is when so many children will have missed 4 months of school and unlikey to even get a report this year.

Fairly sure all kids are getting reports based on pre lockdown work.

It's a legal obligation I think?

Not as annoying as people who make an “announcement” that they are coming of FB for a break because they can’t stand to not see people social distancing/whatever only to be back 2 days to a week later.

Oh do fuck off.

@m0therofdragons

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.

It will be based on pre lockdown work. If they only usually get one report a year, it will be based on progress from September to March.

In my experience, it is not the parents of genuinely clever children who do this.
Also, primary school reports are always as positive as possible. So even if the teacher really needs to say something not completely glowing, they will make up for it with something else!

mazsagong 😂 That is all

It’s always the same ones. Check in at a restaurant “treats for this one tonight after an amazing parents evening/report. Couldn’t be prouder. #myworld #dontknowwherehegetshisbrainsfrom “ vomit.

I agree it's weird OP - I don't share anything personal on SM - the fact that we're proud of our son's report is no-one's business IMO - I think it minimises the effect too. I like that it's ours and it's special to us, because quite frankly, no-one other than family gives a shit - it's not like I'm going to say "hey son, 35% of my FB "friends" have liked the fact that we're proud of you" - it's an ego-boost.
I keep precious moments like this close to home. I also do believe it's flaunting, which I hate tbh, but there we go.

@OhCaptain - see my post above.... I'm a SAHM. I don't like show-offs.

I agree its crass, sometimes makes me think the parents are insecure. Since my children have been old enough to ask, they've said they don't want me to post anything about them online. (And I didn't before then) Facebook is about MY dull life not theirs.

I can't get worked up about people being proud of their children and wanting to crow about their achievements, especially when those people are my friends and I want them to be happy.

I finished writing my reports yesterday, everyone got a good report, the final report isn’t the time to broach any concerns it’s the time to celebrate their successes.

@VenusTiger it wasn’t a judgement just an observation!