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?!

This thread is screaming out for Phyllis. She might have been called PhyllisNights. I miss her

@Finfintytint

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 think I would stealth boast that one too!

Years ago, I was waitressing wedding, the father of the brides speech contained him reading out her exam results from school. Waited for it to be a funny anecdote, a joke? It was neither.

I know one IRL. I don't have social media, but she just boasts about them CONSTANTLY! Everything they do is amazing, they are just so advanced apparently (not true), and just so well behaved. They never get ill, never have been ill and never gave her any bother when they were babies (also not true, they are ill a lot, she just ignores it, and the eldest was a baby that cried constantly). IRL, not their mum and dads fantasy life, they are 2 of the most annoying children you have every met. They are extremely rude, demand 100% attention from any adult withing a 20ft radius (quite concerning as they will talk to any adult and wander after them to seek attention, argue with adults and tell them they are wrong about everything, and talk about themselves and how amazing they are all the time ( not their fault, I know).

A friend wrote a lockdown diary on Facebook which was one of my highlights to read earlier this year. My favourite post was a younger in cheek one here attached! 😂

*tongue in cheek

A group of us were walking our kids up to the school and one was talking about how her son had said he wanted to be a shopkeeper when he grew up as people would just come into his shop all day and give him money. Sweet from a 6 year old.
Other people chipped in, and I said my son had said he wanted to be an artist. And the shopkeeper’s mother sneered, my son knows better, art never pays.
Yes indeed, your 6 year old’s imaginary career is so much more economically sound than my 6 year old’s imaginary career.

[quote Nursejackie1]@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[/quote]
What had this got to do with feminism?? Now you’re just being insulting.

@Nursejackie1

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

Ok, act like a moron 🤦🏼‍♀️

My sister did art and earns a fortune more than a shop keeper so she’s wrong on that. What a cow that mother is to say that though 😮

and that's the difference between pride/joy and plain old boasting
Yes. I think that's it. Plain old boasting and trying to suggest your child is so much better than all the other children is both funny and sad. That's different to being proud of your child.

I’ve remembered another one, friends of my in-laws homeschooled their eldest daughter up to GCSEs, then sent her to sixth form to do A levels, but apparently the school said she knew too much already and there was nothing they could teach her, so asked her to leave... Why a school would kick out someone who would get them great results with no effort from them I have no idea, but we never got to the bottom of whether she was kicked out for a different reason or whether the parents just decided to go back to homeschooling. Oh, and one of her subjects at A level was Russian, in which she was self taught up to that point...

*No shit Sherlock. Here was me worried that, at age 19, she'll still be flat face down on the floor, and I'll be saying "well she just never quitegraspedhead lifting"."

Sorry to break it to you, but DD and friends all around 19 seem to regularly lie on the floor unable to lift their heads, generally happens early Sunday mornings, it’s quite strange how they’ve all forgotten... can’t quite work out the issue, they also forget how to walk in a straight line, if at all, babble rubbish and throw up everywhere.

Some strange phenomenon at play

@GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal

Oh Glummy. You do live up to your name.

She's right... nobody gives a crap about how your little princess can recite the alphabet backwards in Japanese, or divide 32/3.6. because what's the point of that, and of telling me that? Apart from boosting your ego.

But they might be pleased for them if they planned and did a charity bike ride, because they wanted to help someone. Because that's an actual achievement that is interesting and of use. And something to talk to the child about and ask interesting questions.

Beginning to think i am a booster, and by admitting this now worried I am boosting about boosting

Seems i can't boost about my spelling, boasting .... really?

@BluebellsGreenbells

*No shit Sherlock. Here was me worried that, at age 19, she'll still be flat face down on the floor, and I'll be saying "well she just never quitegraspedhead lifting"."

Sorry to break it to you, but DD and friends all around 19 seem to regularly lie on the floor unable to lift their heads, generally happens early Sunday mornings, it’s quite strange how they’ve all forgotten... can’t quite work out the issue, they also forget how to walk in a straight line, if at all, babble rubbish and throw up everywhere.

Some strange phenomenon at play

You should have boasted about them when they were weeks old.... Do you even love your kids?

a mum I know once boasted on facebook about DD'S glowing year 1 (yes that's a one) saying. "The world is her oyster, super proud mum"!

Our nursery had a keep in touch private page during lockdown it became a competition between some of the parents to post the most pictures/comments of their darling 3 year olds achievements and lockdown activities. ‘Today little billy has made 4 types of bread, artisan play dough all after completing a 25 mile walk on his hands and then painted this exact replica of the mona Lisa’. Well that’s maybe a slight exaggeration it you get the idea.

I used to have a FB friend who would post gushing posts about how hard her children worked, how wonderful they were etc, so for an award they were doing X activity. They really deserved it, as they were so good. Not normall treats, it was things like Zoo keeper days, holidays, museum sleepovers. Every month. She seemed to have no sense of reality that the reason we did reward our children in this way was financial, not because they were not also hardworking. Unfortunately,vthe children had already got a superiority complex at 6&8 years old. They used to be quite nice.

Do you even love your kids?

Is that a requirement?

@Thereareliterallynonamesleft

I once saw a mum of a toddler in a playground praising his ‘great problem solving skills’ for climbing up the steps to go down a slide.

Love this one.

When I was on maternity leave for Ds1 in my baby group there was a woman who just had to have her kid do everything first and it was all down to her superior parenting and her child's superior existence. It was like she validated herself by comparing. DS1 was about 4 weeks younger than hers (which makes a difference for a while!) and she would point out he was still in nappies, not yet crawling etc and tut about it. As it was, he is autistic and did not have a single word before the age of 3 and I recall her mentioning this and asking me very gently in a faux concerned voice if i had thought of actually talking to him.

Nah. of course not. i just mimed at him for 3 years.

@timehealsmost

a mum I know once boasted on facebook about DD'S glowing year 1 (yes that's a one) saying. "The world is her oyster, super proud mum"!

Someone I know did the same for their DS's very run of the mill report ("Jake is a lovely child, very kind and always willing to help"). She posted saying "one day my darling you will move mountains"

My husband sometimes has a propensity to show off about the kids.

I remember when our eldest was nearly 3 and obsessed with dinosaurs - he knew really obscure ones and only ever wanted to read his dinosaur encyclopaedia and create dinosaur fossils with play dough.

Well my husband decided the quiet but busy train carriage was a great time to show off my son’s dinosaur knowledge.

So he said in his loudest voice “my favourite dinosaur’s an ankylosauras - what’s your favourite dinosaur son?” (expecting my son to say something wanky like an edmontosaurus).

My son simply replied “don’t know”

So my husband dug his heels in and asked my son even louder: “is your favourite dinosaur a velociraptor or a spinosauraus?”

To which my son replied “no my favourite dinosaur is a purplesaurus”. I could see a few of the passengers smirking at this.

My son had never mentioned a purplesaurus before or since. I think even his 2 year old self knew how wanky that conversation was and felt the need to put my husband in his place.

@NightOwlNeverSleeps

A friend wrote a lockdown diary on Facebook which was one of my highlights to read earlier this year. My favourite post was a younger in cheek one here attached! 😂

Omg I thought this was serious at first.

It’s brilliant 😂