To ask what’s the most toe curling OTT boast/showing off you’ve heard from a parent about their child?

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Just seen a FB post from a mum friend boasting about her 9yo daughter doing online dance and gym sessions via zoom and practising for her 11 plus complete with picture of said child sat at her desk and smiling for the camera. Hope the child gets time to chill out now and then! Mum obviously needs us all to believe her daughter is a high achiever! It was so cringy though and I wondered if anyone else out there was biting their lip at stuff like this?!

@GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal

Because they listen to what I say. And they here me telling everyone who'll stand still that I think they're incredible.

Nah nah nee nah nah

@Glummymcglummyson well many people of course when you have kids ask what your kid is like and how are they doing at school? People who also have kids and go into detail about their kids and grandkids. So I should have just lied and said well yeah he likes trains and Thomas the tank when he’s actually loving documentaries on space and having to join year 6 classes for maths? I don’t lie about my youngest son loving paw patrol so why would I change the reality of my eldest just to not look like I’m “showing off”.
Of course I don’t just go upto people and go hey mate guess what.. my kids a fucking genius...
Ffs I’m saying that we all talk about our kids and it’s almost discriminate and taboo to talk about one that’s in any way talented for fear of being scoffed at but I cannot change who my kids are. They are both who they are, no credit to me and that’s it.

Because they listen to what I say. And they here me telling everyone who'll stand still that I think they're incredible

If I run rather than stand still do you promise not to tell me they're the best?

@Spied

An acquaintance of mine who was forever trying to make out her son was superior to my son started gushing about her son winning the 'Resilience' award one year at school. I didn't bother trying to explain, simply smiled and patted myself on the back that my DS hadn't won it.

"Resilience award" is an award just like "most improved" is an award

@ancientgran

*I remember a mum calling out loudly at a local small zoo to her child “ Well done for recognising it’s a Marmoset not just a monkey”.*

I have a sort of reverse of that, DD had a Sooty and Sweep learn your alphabet video, I think I'd borrowed it from someone at playground and we used to swap videos. Anyway it didn't do the traditional A is for apple and picked more unusual things so A was for axolotl.

We went to a local school for a fund raising thing, as we walked round one of the biology labs DD aged 3 or 4 but was tiny so probably looked more like a 2 year old, looked at the things in glass cases and said, loudly, "Look, it's an axolotl." I walked over to check the label, as I'm not an expert on axolotls, and it was. Man who was there with an older child looked astonished and said, "I can't believe she knew that." I smiled and walked on, didn't want to disillusion him and tell him it was the result of watching Sooty and Sweep but felt a bit embarrassed that he thought he'd spotted a genius.

Yep, nursery were amazed DS3 knew what an ammonite was.

Felt a bit embarassed admitting it’s because we’ve parked him in front of Octonauts for eight hours a day during lockdown.

I understand. It must be hard for you all. You'll never have kids as amazing as mine.

Take some consolation from the fact they're probably the best you could manage.

@GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal

I understand. It must be hard for you all. You'll never have kids as amazing as mine.

Take some consolation from the fact they're probably the best you could manage.

Is that supposed to be cutting 😂😂😂

Ok, @Feministicon, let's turn this around: why don't you boast about your kids?

@Nursejackie1 TBH no one outside family and friends have ever asked what my kid is like and how they're doing at school. And if they did I would say doing extremely well thank you and they love it - no one actually wants to hear the minutiae of their school life.

Though I agree with PPs that grandparents are the exception for boasting to as they lap it up

@feministcom was it the use of the f word? So so sorry. Wow

@GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal

I understand. It must be hard for you all. You'll never have kids as amazing as mine.

Take some consolation from the fact they're probably the best you could manage.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yeah but my dad's harder then your dad.

@GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal

Ok, *@Feministicon*, let's turn this around: why don't you boast about your kids?

I don’t recall saying I didn’t, I merely questioned you saying it was for your children’s sake that you did.

[quote Nursejackie1]@feministcom was it the use of the f word? So so sorry. Wow[/quote]
You just seem disproportionately angry that’s all.

@nemeton

Oh dear *@GlummyMcGlummerson* - he should have used "Brava"...

That was my exact thought

GlummyMcGlummerson so literally nobody ever asked anything at all about your kids personalities? Ever? That’s pretty sad. Reminds me of the days of children should be seen and not heard.
And also to clarify then ... are we allowed to talk to family and friends about things we are proud of with our kids? Is that ok? Because I don’t really go up to random people at bus stops and say hey mate wanna hear my 5 year old do the 19 Times table?

Oh no @Feministicon, that's us snookered, some random loons on the Internet don't think our children are tHe bESt

(A pillow, BTW, that was delicately hand stitched by my DD when she was 3. Don't hate me cos you ain't me)

@feministcon .. yes feminists tend to get disproportionately angry about a lot of things don’t we when we speak up about things. Damn us angry feminists

I've never met my dad, Glummy, so quite possibly.

Look, I've actually been tongue-in-cheek up to now, but serious question: why shouldn't we boast about our kids? They're amazing little people. And yes, to me mine are the most amazing there are, as I'm sure all of yours are to you. So tell them - tell everyone. They should know mum is immeasurably proud of them. God knows the world is full of enough people who want to tear them down.

I do, by the way, also tell them when they're being awkward little sods and driving me up the wall. It's a balance.

A boast on a group chat that Daughter had aced her eye test.

@GlummyMcGlummerson

Oh no *@Feministicon*, that's us snookered, some random loons on the Internet don't think our children are tHe bESt

(A pillow, BTW, that was delicately hand stitched by my DD when she was 3. Don't hate me cos you ain't me)

I might secretly not actually have any dc just creepy wee dolls and that’s why I don’t boast but no one must find out ever.

I do tell my dc dolls I’m proud of them to their rubbery faces.

... scurrying off back in my box to be all demure and act like a real lady @feministcom

@Cheeseismymiddlename

A boast on a group chat that Daughter had aced her eye test.

😱😂

@Nursejackie1

GlummyMcGlummerson so literally nobody ever asked anything at all about your kids personalities? Ever? That’s pretty sad. Reminds me of the days of children should be seen and not heard. And also to clarify then ... are we allowed to talk to family and friends about things we are proud of with our kids? Is that ok? Because I don’t really go up to random people at bus stops and say hey mate wanna hear my 5 year old do the 19 Times table?

Ah, you're sad? Bless. I'll tell DC.

I don't have randoms outside my friends and family circle saying "what are your kids like and how are they doing at school?". I've never asked anyone else either unless they're friends or family, and even then it's mostly just being polite.

Now and again another school mum asks "are they enjoying Year 4" at the beginning of a new year, to which the appropriate answer is something like "yes they love Miss Smith". It's never an invitation to vote someone with details about times tables.

I boast about my kids mostly to my kids. They don't need me to repeat what I say to all and sundry . They certainly don't need me to post endless pictures of them on social media. Then again I have very secure and self assured children.

@GlummyMcGlummerson

Because they listen to what I say. And they here me telling everyone who'll stand still that I think they're incredible

If I run rather than stand still do you promise not to tell me they're the best?

I'm not very fast, but I'm quite loud. I suspect it'll depend on how loud I shout.