DD's precocious development driving a wedge between my mommy friends

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: It did start to annoy me. So, did the mom, but not for any of the reasons that the OP has been accused of.

Again, maybe OP's problems with the other moms has absolutely nothing to do with their jealousy of her daughter. Maybe she has no idea that she's difficult to get along with. Maybe she suspects she lacks social skills, but needs a way to blame it on the other moms' shortcomings, their alleged jealousy.

I'm not saying we can know this for sure. But we certainly can't rule it out.

I will try to clarify for OP's sake. I don't think the mom was doing anything wrong. She beamed at her daughter and looked around at our reactions. This was enough for me to be like "get over yourself." At one point she did make the comment that there was a "wide range of normal." Nice, but I almost would have rather her said, "yeah, my DD is something special."

In your first post you said that the mom was annoying for other reasons besides her kid. I'm just saying OP may annoy other moms for reasons not related to her kid.

Oh, please know I was also raging with pregnancy induced hormones at the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the mom with the kindermusik story. I wrote just the two posts. I can't tell who is arguing with who anymore, so I'm out. (I am not gifted. I am a succesful, happy, former attorney, but never gifted.) I just wanted to add my 2 cents with a true story.

I don't know who that other disruptive poster is either, let's ignore him/her/it.

You said in your first post that the mom annoyed you for reasons having nothing to do with her brilliant child. I'm saying that could also be the case with OP. OP should at least consider other reasons she may be driving these moms away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Somebody here keeps saying that we "don't understand" because "we have never met precocious 2-year-olds.". Please stop saying this. You're wrong. We simply don't agree that the world owes us kudos for producing this wunderkind, or that intelligence is a child's only defining characteristic.

Would you mind referencing the posts where people stated, "we don't understand". I think you are imagining it.

Aw geez, where to start? How about the nutcase who claims we all have NT kids (she means normal kids) which is why we fail to empathize with OP?