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?!

And another. At a professional's dinner one particularly boastful Dad announced (to whole table) that his 3 year old won't sing Old MacDonald like his peers. He sings it by naming dinosaurs like Pterodactyl or Diplodocus instead of cows and pigs. One female colleague who was getting sick of his boasting said very loudly: "Oh dear, that really doesn't sound right. I think you need to get him checked". Harsh. Boastful Dad tried to spend rest of meal playing down son's talents and deflecting any implication his son had need to be "checked."

“Is this the beginning” posted on Facebook with a picture of DS posing outside the local athletics club. Mother was convinced her DS was the next Usain Bolt.

He came dead last in every race and refused to go again.

My friend told me once she had 'had it confirmed' her son would have been ok if he had have started school a year early!Same friend also told me his teacher said he was the top boy in the class. And that the teacher said it is getting boring doing times tables because he is the only one that gets them all right every time. Blah blah - I just switch off now, knowing how pleased l am with dd's levels and progress in most areas, just tend to save the bragging for my mum who is only too happy to say she thinks l have raised a child prodigy🤭oh well - Nanny's right l suppose!

@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”.

You just killed me!! Hilarious 🤣

Basically no one likes to see anyone post anything remotely positive on social media. People prefer negatively all these comments prove it. That’s society for you very sad but true 👎

My DH's cousin is like this. Every day there is some new insipid post of the wonder child doing something apparently amazing.

Yawn yawn yawn. Said child and his dad are totally obnoxious 90% of the time.

There's us not posting stuff our hell raising sprog does because although it's awesome in our view, most people would be horrified.

Some people just need to 'look good', regardless.

Another mum in DDs school posted a pic of her son's star of the year award that he got on the last day of term with the usual proud mummy stuff and it was utterly, utterly cringeworthy as every child got one for being "a super duper helpful member of blackbirds" or something equally meaningless. I actually felt really sorry for her and hope nobody ever told her.

My friend was really competative when the kids were little. Stuarts sitting up, is Sarah sitting up yet?. Stuarts counting, is Sarah counting yet. Well I got caught up with it all and fell into her trap. I taught my daughter to count going up steps etc. and by the time she was two she could count to 10. When my friend came round I said to Sarah right remember to count for Carol. Friend came round and as I opened the door her little boy pointed to the number and said look mummy number 13............. I gave in he really was more clever than my little girl. And damn it hes handsome and a really nice person now he is grown up too.

I don't know about kids but my SIL is pretty good at telling us all how fucking fabulous she is at every chance

I know one mum who posts her DDs school reports on Facebook. Seriously the only people who give a fuck are the parents and possibly grandparents. So embarrassing.

The parents evening/school report ones really make me cringe too. I get people are proud of their kids, so tell the kid! Not everyone on fb via a somewhat braggy post. I have 3 kids btw so I know how it feels to be proud of their achievements. There is a difference between ‘xyz is doing well at school’ and ‘xyz is an over achiever and their teacher said they are simply amazing!’ Why do we all need to know. And why we’re on the subject...I don’t need to see what you had for your dinner every day of the week 🤦🏻‍♀️😬🤣

To be fair these ridiculous boasters do give us some amusement in these dark times!

My mother had a perfect school friend who would send round robins she was apparently lovely but the perfect family became a standing joke rather. 4 children all top of class sports incredible achievements all to Oxford or Cambridge though one went to Harvard I think. . When one got a pilots licence we drew the line 😁

Granddad boasting that his 5 year old grandson could understand a electrical wiring diagram and how to break the circuit. Said child can't even read yet

I only ever posted part of dd3’s school report because it was hilarious. It was the bit dd wrote in reception (teacher wrote it in for her but it was DD’s words).

What do you find tricky?
Nothing. I am very good at absolutely everything! (dd is youngest in the year but certainly full of confidence). But as a general rule, phone grandparents and tell them but don’t post reports on fb.

The SATs test results were all over fb with lots of bragging. One dc got 132.... erm, they were out of 120! I can only assume the parent added all 4 numbers?

Yes, the ones on FB who have marvellous holidays, days out and activities ALL the time.

I remember a mum boasting that her daughter had the best level in reading blah blah. My Dd was actually the best in that class, she is still excellent in literacy at 17, doing A-Levels.

I didn't say anything. Who the frig cares.

@Hesnotlocal
Oh god, we had one of those during lockdown.... all the mums over WhatsApp were gushing, but it never went anywhere (thank Christ).

I had a neighbour with 2 sons. It was a long running history with her.
Rule 1. My children can do no wrong. Rule 2. If you think my children have done anything wrong please refer back to Rule 1.
I'll talk about the eldest who stole my son's toy cars and buried them and swore at us. his mother just said -well what can you expect from children nowadays. Mine used to get grounded for swearing.
Much later she said her son had been offered the position of head boy at the school but had refused because he was concentrating on his studies. Little did she know that I was doing teaching supply there and knew it was untrue. The most outrageous thing she said was that her son was going to Oxford (university). Later on it turned out that it was Oxford Polytechnic !

The only time l posted DD's work from parents evening. The question was 'can you see a pattern?' Answer 'no l cannot'

That's my girl!!

Oh my Dps neighbour once boasted in the pub to her new NDN that her ds (11yo, non-academic, bully at school) was going to be a BMX champion. Cos that's all he ever did.

Child is now about 28 and a complete waster (as is his mother)

@Hardbackwriter 😂😂 that is insane

Why do baby milestones send people over the edge

At toddler group - friend: oh look have you seen, dd can write her own name! Your dtds are just scribbling, dd is soooo clever.

I laughed and pointed out that although dc would all be in the same school year her DD’s birthday was 6 Sept and dtd’s burger is 30 Aug so yes her dc was almost a year older and a year ago couldn’t write her own name.

Amazingly we are actually still friends. Recently she was boasting her dd1 learns Mandarin at independent school and seemed most put out when I said DD’s state school does too

Birthday not burger 🍔

Urgh we are talking self proclaimed 'proud mummy moments' on Facebook aren't we? I stop reading when I see that phrase. I hope my children were happy enough with the praise I heaped directly onto them. And of course I told the grandparents etc.

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