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

[Rainbowb]

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?!

[Washimal]

I'm amazed that some people don't see the difference between a nice picture of your child doing something lovely and insinuating that said child is a rare and exceptional talent.

I think people do understand the difference, but this thread was intended to be about the latter.

[Thatwentbadly]

@Bellieberg

"X is absolutely going to be prime minister one day!"

...said proudly by the mum while X pushes everyone out of the way by their faces at soft play and steps over the fallen like roadkill.

I think my face betrayed my thoughts before I could control it. That was six years ago and they've been pretty consistent ever since that day. Both the daughter and the mother.

Sounds like the skills needed to become PM.

[sapnupuas]

My son doesn't like chips, either.

It pisses me off. Just eat the damn chips, you freak!

[Gancanny]

@SpaceOP to balance out the day when we saw the raccoon DD shouted that it was a "FUCKS" (fox) so I had the precocious Marmoset child reading out the habitat and conservation details and the miniature Begbie jumping up and down screaming "FUCKS FUCKS FUCKS!"

[pluckywormfish]

I left school 7 years ago and when I was about 17 years old a girl in my classes mum tried to sue the school for not realizing how her daughter was so gifted and talented and held her back. They wanted compensation because without this special treatment she DESERVED she was rejected from Oxbridge.

Mum was sweet but deluded, girl was a narcissistic brat who thought she was better than everyone else. My dad once sat next to her mum on a 1h train journey and just wanted to say a polite hello and then read on the train. Poor dad. He had to listen for a whole hour about how her daughter was grade 4 ballet, grade 6 clarinet, and spoke 4 languages fluently (lie) was recognized as part of a gifted and talented programme. The real shocker was that she was apparently approached by a modelling agency for her beauty who wanted her to be on the runway in New York fashion week. This girl was large and not a looker.

[Bellieberg]

Thatwentbadly yes so true!

[TableFlowerss]

@SuperAlly

“Look at ***, leader of the pack again” because her six year old daughter happened to be walking two steps ahead of her pals 😕

😂😂 what a belter - how did you keep a straight face

[Cosmos45]

@HallieKnight

I'm confused. You think parents should keep their kid a secret and never talk to them in public?

Sigh..

[Hardbackwriter]

A friend's wife started dragging her seven month old around by the arms in the middle of the pub and declaring that he 'was basically walking' and, even more cringingly, telling everyone that she was an early walker (we all walk now, Jane!) because she realised that my child - who was well over one, anyway - had started walking since she'd last seen him

[countrygirl99]

@gancanny DS1 used to pronounce racing as wang. It got a bit embarassing in Curry's as he watched formula 1 on the display TVs pointing at the "Wang cars"

[2bazookas]

Oh god, I'm so grateful my generation raised our children before social media existed. The children, us and our parenting skills were mercilessly on view in real life. The unedited, unexpurgated version.

[PerpendicularVincent]

'X has spent lockdown learning about exoplanets and would be happy to teach the class about them'.

X was 7.

[HotPenguin]

A friend of mine summarised everything her kid's teacher had said at parents evening on FB. I thought it was going to be funny, but no. It was just gushing about how intelligent and popular said child is

[Lemonyfuckit]

Years ago we had some neighbours who used to send us a Round Robin letter with their Christmas card, which was an annual cringe-fest we used to gleefully look forward to. This was several typed pages of A4, joyfully boasting about all the marvellous and exciting achievements of the whole family that year, adults included. However their teenage daughter was particularly singled out, who as well as being academically extremely gifted (naturally) was very sporty, and was doing rowing. Among the other boasts, we used to at the boasts about her latest (ginormous) shoe size, fairly sure that this teenage girl was actually mortified her parents were telling all and sundry how large her feet were, poor girl (the implication being she was no doubt going to become an Olympic rower due to her being very tall, with very large feet...)

[Rainallnight]

Someone on my road is sending her DS to independent school because he’s ‘too bright’ for all of the (very good) local primaries.

[kungfupannda]

@WhySoSensitive

Not a child but a woman in one of my birth groups, said that the midwife with nearly 40 years experience had never seen such an incredibly powerful woman give birth in such a powerful way before. Apparently she specifically asked this woman to start birthing groups because she was so amazing.
I still smell the bull even now.

Did she also gush milk from her breasts like no midwife had ever seen before, so they desperately wanted her to keep breastfeeding forever, as an example to all the other crap breastfeeding mums in the area?

If so, I think I resisted the urge to lamp her one met her at a feeding group.

[ChessIsASport]

It is difficult. Sometimes you are just so proud of them it’s hard to keep it in! Maybe there should be an anonymous thread in Mumsnet where you can just post about how proud you are.

One of my children recently won a national award and I have only told my closest friend because I know it would sound like I was showing off if I put it on Facebook. Really wish I could tell the world though. Oh dear, maybe I just did.

[JosephineDeBeauharnais]

My friend is awful for this. She’s particularly bad for claiming, whenever one of her DC starts a new activity, that the instructor has declared them to be “world class” or “Olympic potential” in their first session. They usually give up the activity after the first half term 🙄.

[Lalalatte]

Before the DCs were born MIL would often boast of the early walking skills of her 2 children who were both well under a year. She would reel it off and I can only imagine how annoying her friends must have found it. Neither were at all athletic as adults.
Mine were decidedly later, at around 18months. This seems to have persuaded her to let the subject lie.

[bendmeoverbackwards]

I'm cringing just reading these.

I'm not a big SM user anyway but I have never posted photos of my dc online. Apart from anything else it's an invasion of THEIR privacy - do parents get their dc's permission to post photos?

My mum brought me up to be modest and not show off and this is something I have taken into my adult life. If people ask about my dc I will tell them....but to volunteer this stuff is just really cringey and embarrassing.

[Charl1009]

Lauryn Goodman announcing on Instagram that her 6 month old now says ‘ Your Welcome’ along with several other words. Ok then... 🥴

[Thehop]

@MustardMitt you should have told her that the longer teeth take to come the stronger they are.

[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.

[SpaceOP]

@ChessIsASport

It is difficult. Sometimes you are just so proud of them it’s hard to keep it in! Maybe there should be an anonymous thread in Mumsnet where you can just post about how proud you are.

One of my children recently won a national award and I have only told my closest friend because I know it would sound like I was showing off if I put it on Facebook. Really wish I could tell the world though. Oh dear, maybe I just did.

If I saw a post on Facebook that your child had won a national award I would be absolutely thrilled and would absolutely Like your post.

There are batshit parents who honestly think their children are geniuses because they can do the 5x timetable, but personally, I think we should feel sorry for them.

Then there are the ridiculous ones who need to make themselves feel good by putting you/your children down and those ones are absolutely awful and horrible and deserve calling out.

But a parent being proud of a child's achievement is neither of the above. Please, post it.

[Trisolaris]

‘She will have to go to a private secondary school because she’s far too pretty for (insert local comprehensive) and would get bullied’