Boasting 4yo.... any tips on how to deal with it?

[pupuce]

My DS - 4yo - has recently gotten into this new habit of boasting to his 2 yo sister....
"I have the biggest (croissant for example)"
"I am going to the shop and not you"

They get on fairly well (right now playing nicely together) but he must be the first, have the biggest, be the only who can..... and brag about it - SIGH!!!!!

Any tip?????
Tight now my way of dealing with it is to say for example

"I am going to the shop with mummy and not you" (to DD)
"DS stop it or you're not coming with me.... "
Not sure it's the best way.... I then try to say that boasting is not nice....

Boys!!!!! They never grow out of boasting do they?!!!
How about trying to balance it - when he boasts that he has the biggest X, say DD has the biggest Y??? Or make it into a joke, say ahh but DD has more dolls than you or something similar?

I have the same problem with DS1 (nearly 5) and DS2 (nearly 3) has now caught on to boasting.

Other than telling them not to gloat/boast I try to ignore it. Not very successfully sometimes.

I was expecting something else ... In our house this is called 'winding each other up', and is barely tolerated, as it really winds me up! There is nothing worse than having them both sitting down eating tea nicely, and one of them saying "Look, ds1, I've got the strawberry yoghurt!" - or whatever. I must admit, I'm just brutal, and if something like that happens, I just swap the items over, and say, "You don't wind your brother up". Mine are 6.5 and nearly 4, both boys, so it seems the right thing to do ... seems to work for us anyway - they don't really do it now.

I don't insist on everything being 'fair' - they don't always get the same things, but I can't abide this sort of provocative behaviour!

My two sons do this too - the 4 year old is even worse than the 9 year old. I think it's a basic impulse, a fundamental way of them interacting, a necessary game, and it's impossible and futile to stamp it out totally. But if it gets serious and one of them is hurt or really upset, then I would punish the boaster. It's knowing just when to step in, because IME boasting games can lead to fighting or arguments.

My older son is mature enough to sometimes let his little brother 'win' for the sake of peace, so I am really happy when this happens. Then I heap praise on my oldest ds and tell my younges ds to thank him for being so kind. Otherwise, when the game begins, I'll say, we all do things together, all have exacty the same number of sweets, all get the same size croissants etc etc in this house. Distraction techniques work for me as well. HTH pupuce!

Good ideas..... Thank you
I do already say.... they are all the same size, etc and DH has done the swap on occasion.... which led to tears as DS was then convinced his sister had the biggest..... grrrr....