Forgive me, I'm "that parent"

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To avoid posting it online/telling the delivery man/calling all my friends, I'm writing on here, because i am So Full of irrational mumpride over nothing, i am being so PFB it is ridiculous, and I'm inviting you to join me (or to roll your eyes so hard your head hurts)

I just got 13m DD's first nursery term report back. It's so bog standard, explores by herself, likes music time, can use a spoon, but i am absolutely bursting with pride. Sentences like "seeks out adults when she's tired and enjoys a cuddle" are making me want to weep with joy.

I had no idea being a parent was going to be like this - i feel like the most ridiculous woman on the planet and i just don't GAF. Is this normal!?

So sweet! Write this down so you can remember it forever. This is why we change those nappies and do the washing and rock through the crying.

Oh, I know how you feel. We had DS' first 'parents evening' last week (he's 16 months) and I was so nervous before hand and that so overwhelming proud of him afterwards.

Totally normal OP, embrace the feeling 🤗

Enjoy the loveliness! Those moments are so precious

Ha ha I like that 😊

I’m bursting with pride about my eldest’s reading level and have no one who cares as much as me. So I make do with inner-smiles and warm-glows 🤭

That’s so lovely OP

Haha, what a lovely post.

@justanotherneighinparadise

Ha ha I like that 😊

I’m bursting with pride about my eldest’s reading level and have no one who cares as much as me. So I make do with inner-smiles and warm-glows 🤭

YES i know what you mean! I used to roll my eyes so hard at parents who were so proud of tiny pointless things, and then last week i told three different people about how my daughter turned around and sat down on the stairs for the first time.

Congratulations on your daughter's reading skills - it IS a big deal!

I was thrilled to hear that my DD enjoys going down the slide at nursery. She is so clever!!!

This will totally out me to anyone who has heard this story in RL but my now 18 yr old has a nursery report at age 2 that said "X loves outside playtime and enjoys talking to insects and slugs"

Be proud! It's moments like this that make it all worthwhile ❤️

I know how you feel dh and I took ds 18 months out for lunch to an Italian place the other day, he had his own pizza and milk in a glass! I've never been so proud watching him sit up and eat a meal that we had ordered just for him. Ridiculous

@Doyouwantanothercuppa

I was thrilled to hear that my DD enjoys going down the slide at nursery. She is so clever!!!

See, that IS clever! Slides can be scary! Apparently my DD enjoys building block towers and knocking them down again. DH and i are taking bets on whether she'll be an architect or a demolition expert.

She sounds like a sweet little cookie!

It just gets better and better... Although for DS almost 3, we recently had "Can articulate his needs clearly and ask for what he wants". Don't we bloody well know that, problem is getting him to shut up sometimes .

I totally understand this. Every day I am more and more amazed at my 2YO DS's speech progression. Every time he says a new word I want to burst with pride!

Dd5 here hardworking award last week along with lovely handwriting prize and picked for a book reward for her reading safe to say am proud as punch all her hardwork playing catch up is finally paying off 😀

🥰 I was so proud of DSs preschool report I cried

😂😂

Treasure these moments :)

@Aria999

🥰 I was so proud of DSs preschool report I cried

So glad it's not just me!

Enjoy it! I cry everytime I have a parents evening & my eldest is now 11. IT seems to be instinctive when anyone says anything nice about my children.

I agree with making a note. I'm making a journal for each dc full of precious memories and funny/ridiculous things they say like when I told ds4 that we were going to the beach but also managing his expectations by telling him today we're going to a pebbly beach, not a sandy beach. He then asked if it was big pebbles or little pebbles. I said little & he burst into tears as he wanted big pebbles!

This is a lovely thread. DH and I were sat enthusiastically discussing how well DS (2.5, this isn't a stealth boast about my potty-trained 1 year old) has done with potty training and at one point we just looked at each other and started laughing - because who would have imagined that one day our lives would come to this, that we'd be so genuinely happy and proud that a human being had pooed in a plastic pot that we'd find it a suitable topic of evening conversation?! If you'd told me before we had him that DH and I would have long conversations about how amazing DS is where we list things like 'he said thank you to a woman in a shop today! Unprompted!' I would have scoffed and sworn that no, I would never become that person...

@MessAllOver

She sounds like a sweet little cookie!

It just gets better and better... Although for DS almost 3, we recently had "Can articulate his needs clearly and ask for what he wants". Don't we bloody well know that, problem is getting him to shut up sometimes .

Haha, this one made me laugh! DS's nursery marks all of the pictures/notes they upload to the online portal with which steps of the EY framework they meet, and I pointed out to DH recently that they didn't seem to have ever uploaded one which didn't include the milestone 'can express own preferences and interests' - I think we've got that one down, guys!

What till your child reads a sentence for the first time!

Enjoy it while you can
(Before you get the ‘child needs to work harder to achieve their potential’ reports)

What a lovely thread. My pride hasn’t lessened even though my child is 20 odd!! It’s the little things that bring joy.

@MessAllOver

She sounds like a sweet little cookie!

It just gets better and better... Although for DS almost 3, we recently had "Can articulate his needs clearly and ask for what he wants". Don't we bloody well know that, problem is getting him to shut up sometimes .

Ha, we had 'he is very very active and very very independent' which I think is code for 'an absolute nightmare' but also exactly sums up why we sent him to nursery 😂