Country club kids who brag at school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:training?

etiquette class?

[Anonymous]

The training is how to sign for things when you are 10 years old on your account.

[Anonymous]

I live in Bethesda and we chose not to join a country club but know plenty of people who belong. I don't hear the kids commenting about it at all, other than to invite friends to their club for bowling or swimming or whatever. My kids don't care that they don't belong to a club or care that some of their friends do. They don't think it's anything special. OP, maybe you are just projecting your own insecurities?

[Anonymous]

Can OP come back with an example of bragging? I think for many kids, they don't even realize that belonging to a club is a thing worthy of bragging about. It is just where they go to swim or have dinner on Sundays.

[Anonymous]

It's a money trail thing. The money trail from DuPont/Georgetown all the way to Poolesville. The clubs are Chevy Chase, Columbia, Kenwood, Bethesda, Burning Tree, Congressional, Avenel, Woodmont, Lakewood and Bretton Woods. The schools are Sidwell, St John's, St Albans, GDS, Bcc, Whitman, Landon, Stone Ridge, WJ, Holton,Holy Cross , QO, Wootton, Holy Child, Norwood, Mater Dei, Georgetown Prep, Churchill, RM, Bullis, Poolesville, St Andrews.

The area is huge, affluent and the most attractive in the region so it breeds the type

[Anonymous]

I hear kids mention their clubs and the things they do at them (with other kids who belong to the same club). I don't take it as bragging any more than I would thing someone was bragging about seeing a friend at the neighborhood pool or lacrosse. Sometimes mentioning those things are for attention; most of the time, it's just talking about their day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It must be a Bethesda thing (I am not from here), but it seems so weird when I hear kids on playdates bragging about "the club". If that is not bad enough Columbia does "training" for 4th graders and so now those kids are obnoxious about who "belongs" and who doesn't. Do you think it's the parents who encourage their kids to act this way?

Define bragging, and explain "are obnoxious about who "belongs" and who doesn't," OP.

[Anonymous]

There are barely any neighborhood pools. If kids want to swim, they have to find a pool. Where they spend their time, and have fun, is what they're going to talk about.

[Anonymous]

Thats what we call it in our house, not sure what to tell you. It's not bragging, its no different than saying the store or the field. Sounds like your issue not the kids.

[Anonymous]

I didn't grow up around here and am sometimes surprised by the wealth and privilege. That said, it just made me laugh when my 1st grader asked me where Turks and Caicos is.
Her friend was going there for Christmas that year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:oooo girl let it go! Kids talk in annoying manners 100 percent of the time. Just focus on cruelty, rudeness and bullying. Don't worry about bragging or other annoying habits.

Yup.

100% of the time. This has been confirmed by science.

[Anonymous]

Another Bethesda mom who has never heard this. My kids are jealous of the kids shoe parents below to OGC because they like the pool there. We go to the Y which doesn’t have a slide.

[Anonymous]

Lot if people belong to country clubs for golf. It's not that fancy.

[Anonymous]

We don't belong to a club but my kids have been invited to go with friends. They always come back and tell us how boring it is. We spend our money traveling others may on club fees. The club families may think our lack of membership is sad. Who knows. To each their own.

[Anonymous]

You are clearly out of line OP. Kids aren't being snobby or bragging. These kids go to a club, they talk about it.

In fact, this is a conversation you OVERHEARD. Not bragging.