My Daughter is nearly 5 years old.
I'm not sure if this is just a phase that 5 year olds go through or if I've carried out some shit parenting.
Daughter is a bit of a "show off" I suppose. She shouts "look at me" every time she does anything and will tell anyone who will listen that she can ride a bike, ride a scooter, swim on her own etc (even when it wasn't true). If she sees someone else doing a cartwheel, for example, she will tell them that she can do it too (when she can't).
Quite often she will tell me that she is better at doing something than her friends or her younger Sister e.g "I can ride a bike better than so and so", even when she hadn't mastered riding at the time. She tells me she is taller, funnier, can write better, jump higher etc etc than most of her friends. She puts her Sister down quite a lot telling her that she can't do things (Sister is 2!).
I was surprised today in the park when she was speaking to her friend and she said "I'm better than you". It was out of nowhere and she wasn't directing the comment specifically at anything they had done so it was literally just that she is better than her. The girls Mum was stood there and I could have died. I was so taken aback that I didn't know what to say. I kind of just muttered "No, you are both great. No one is better".
I actually don't really know how to respond to any of it. If she puts her Sister down then I am very quick to tell her no and explain that what she has said isn't very kind and could make her Sister upset. When she prances around the park telling everyone how amazing she is at everything, I just ignore it as I'm actually a bit embarrassed. She does have attention of me and I praise her a lot when she learns something new etc.
I am the polar opposite of her and like to hide away quietly and pretend I don't exist so I find it a bit of a struggle to deal with.
Do you think I am doing something wrong?! How would you respond to all of the above behaviours?