What is the most obnoxious or even delusional brag you have heard from a parent about her/his child?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to teach in a Bethesda public elementary school and let me just say that the amount of intelligence that can be found in the children of this town is staggering. Kids reading Harry Potter at 6 is, while not the majority (again..inappropriate content) it is not unheard of either. Journal writing, book writing, poetry, even composing music...not the majority but very common....even seen in Kindergarten. I've seen 1st graders keep science logs about their favorite animals organized by species. I knew a 2nd grader who was incredibly interested in learning about English kings and battles. I knew 3rd graders who wrote their own comic strips and invented their own strategy games. (these were activities completely unrelated to their schoolwork at the time). The intellectual capacities of the youth of Bethesda reflect their parents success and there is not a small amount of success there.

Also a teacher. One could also make the argument that the cognitive abilities of the "youth of Bethesda" are not any greater than their peers, but that many of their parents have greater cultural capital and therefore the "intellectual capacities" of the children are nurtured and cultivated. SES is paramount.

Get a clue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It all evens out by third grade.

So does athletic talent. By third grade you can assign kids to teams according to shirt color and it won't make any difference.

i don't think this is true; in fact, i believe it's the opposite. i guess most kids are not talented athletes so they could be assign to any team and make no difference; but the exceptional athletic ones and the truly non-athletic ones will make a huge difference on their team. an athletic third grader is head and shoulders above the rest of the field. that's why most travel sports begin in third grade.

No, I totally agree with the first poster. I know several children who were "hothoused" into soccer and basketball at young ages. Their parents sent them to all sorts of camps and hired tutors to teach them basic and advanced sports skills. My own son wasn't that interested in sports early on, but now it is 3rd grade and the kids are all about equal.

The kids who had early soccer abilities just don't seem all that great anymore and the kids who didn't have any soccer skills to speak of improved ... it all evens out by third grade.

That's why I don't believe there's any such thing as a "gifted" soccer player. It's just parents thinking they have a little athlete on their hands.

I think you should just relax and let kids have fun with the soccer ball -- after all, they are just kids!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My child's babysitter turned out to be a murderer.

I don't think that was a brag.

No but you can bet that PP is super disturbed about it at the moment.

I was JOKING. (Actually, I was making fun of all the posters who got hot and bothered that thread, as if hiring a babysitter who turned out to be a murderer were something to brag about.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:GREAT TOPIC!

One mom assured me her 6 year old had read all of the Harry Potter books by herself. My son read Junie B Jones at that age.
One mom told me her nine year old son was writing a book.

I don't think that's too far of a stretch. My DD just turned 5 and has been reading Junie B books for some time now. By the time she's 6, she'll have to progress to something more complicated. She also keeps a "journal" each night about her day.

Wrong thread - this is a thread for laughing at people like you, not an opportunity for you to brag.

Decoding is different than reading comprehension. More complicated might not work. Scan and post the journal.

[Anonymous]

My friend's son crawled at 5 months, it happwned, we all saw it. The friend was obnoxiously humble about it.

[Anonymous]

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No, I totally agree with the first poster. I know several children who were "hothoused" into soccer and basketball at young ages. Their parents sent them to all sorts of camps and hired tutors to teach them basic and advanced sports skills. My own son wasn't that interested in sports early on, but now it is 3rd grade and the kids are all about equal.

The kids who had early soccer abilities just don't seem all that great anymore and the kids who didn't have any soccer skills to speak of improved ... it all evens out by third grade.


That's why I don't believe there's any such thing as a "gifted" soccer player. It's just parents thinking they have a little athlete on their hands.

I think you should just relax and let kids have fun with the soccer ball -- after all, they are just kids!

So you think the countries who best play soccer (like Brazil) and send their players to Europe to make millions are only able to do so because the parents got delusional about their sons soccer playing abilities and clearly invested all the money that they have in abundance to make sure their "little athlete" developed according to expectations? Yeah, right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GREAT TOPIC!

One mom assured me her 6 year old had read all of the Harry Potter books by herself. My son read Junie B Jones at that age.
One mom told me her nine year old son was writing a book.

I don't think that's too far of a stretch. My DD just turned 5 and has been reading Junie B books for some time now. By the time she's 6, she'll have to progress to something more complicated. She also keeps a "journal" each night about her day.

Wrong thread - this is a thread for laughing at people like you, not an opportunity for you to brag.

Decoding is different than reading comprehension. More complicated might not work. Scan and post the journal.

Please ignore this post as my son wrote it-- he's supposed to be writing his *own* journal, not copying someone else's!

[Anonymous]

Not obnoxious - just delusional, but my friend swore that her son intentionally called 911 at 9 or 10 months. He was a completely normal baby and there was no way, but she totally believed it. Years later she was shocked by teachers who thought her son was a normal kid and not a genius.

[Anonymous]

My son is only 2 1/2 and he can already chew gum!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not obnoxious - just delusional, but my friend swore that her son intentionally called 911 at 9 or 10 months. He was a completely normal baby and there was no way, but she totally believed it. Years later she was shocked by teachers who thought her son was a normal kid and not a genius.

My kid dialed 911, too! I think they are used to it though because when they called back to make sure we were okay and I explained that my DC had gummed the phone, they didn't say anything about his IQ. Weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My toddler can speak 2 languages fluently
She does not speak yet, but she understands. I can see by her eyes

That's nothing. So does my dog. Say Arrete! or Stop! and either way he quits moving. He's a genius.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I used to teach in a Bethesda public elementary school and let me just say that the amount of intelligence that can be found in the children of this town is staggering. Kids reading Harry Potter at 6 is, while not the majority (again..inappropriate content) it is not unheard of either. Journal writing, book writing, poetry, even composing music...not the majority but very common....even seen in Kindergarten. I've seen 1st graders keep science logs about their favorite animals organized by species. I knew a 2nd grader who was incredibly interested in learning about English kings and battles. I knew 3rd graders who wrote their own comic strips and invented their own strategy games. (these were activities completely unrelated to their schoolwork at the time). The intellectual capacities of the youth of Bethesda reflect their parents success and there is not a small amount of success there.

Also a teacher. One could also make the argument that the cognitive abilities of the "youth of Bethesda" are not any greater than their peers, but that many of their parents have greater cultural capital and therefore the "intellectual capacities" of the children are nurtured and cultivated. SES is paramount.

Get a clue.

One could also argue that the journal writing, book writing, poetry, etc. of the Youth of Bethesda represent their parents' capacity to contribute to their children's every effort. Having grown up in Bethesda, I've seen a few of these musical compositions, strategy games, and comic strips, that -- oddly enough -- were, shall we say "guided" by Mom and Dad's hand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GREAT TOPIC!

One mom assured me her 6 year old had read all of the Harry Potter books by herself. My son read Junie B Jones at that age.
One mom told me her nine year old son was writing a book.

I don't think that's too far of a stretch. My DD just turned 5 and has been reading Junie B books for some time now. By the time she's 6, she'll have to progress to something more complicated. She also keeps a "journal" each night about her day.

Both my kids read all 7 books at age 6 as well. Not a bragging point -- they weren't the only ones in their 1st grade classes and certainly not even the first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GREAT TOPIC!

One mom assured me her 6 year old had read all of the Harry Potter books by herself. My son read Junie B Jones at that age.
One mom told me her nine year old son was writing a book.

I don't think the writing a book one was weird...

Yeah, I don't think the writing a book one was weird at all. Now if he was writing a book on a new wrinkle in quantum physics, then I'd say that was...odd. Or a lie.

The thread title was delusional/OBNOXIOUS. If you don't find a mom mentioning her 9 year old is writing a book to be obnoxious, then you have a shining future here in DC.

Ok, you're right, I can see how it woud be obnoxious. I was focusing on the delusional. I could see how saying this could go either way though...it's not necessarily obnoxious or delusional, but within the right context, it absolutely is.

I know I liked to "write books" as a kid. I wasn't then and am not now a published author. It was just something to amuse myself.

[Anonymous]

On the writing a book, I should clarify. The mom said her child was writing a book and a publisher was interested in it. And she acted as if she had no control over her child or this event. I'm sorry, if your child is writing a book and a publisher is interested in it (must be a friend), then you have clearly had some role in the process. Children don't write books and then start phoning publishing houses for meetings.