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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My best friend is a wonderful person and we have been friends for a long time. She has a daughter (8th grade) who is incredibly talented, driven, and sweet. She has many talents and seems to win local, regional and national awards every week or two. The daughter is featured in the local (and occasionally national) news every couple of months giving interviews among various other "accolades." In addition to her artistic talent, she also participates in several clubs in/outside of school for which she serves as an officer and is constantly starting new initiatives to lead (charity drives, TED talks, school speaking initiatives). Her parents are well connected so they also set her up with various "youth" initiatives through their work that she then makes her own. 
The child is truly very talented and hoping to go to Harvard, so several reasons (aside from her own passions) drive her. I wish her all the best because she really is a lovely girl. 
The issue? My best friend, who used to be able to talk about other things, and listen to me discuss my own life, now only has a one-track mind. She constantly wants to talk only about her daughter, her daughter's accomplishments, her various activities, and the current conflict or challenges with her daughter. She sends flyers, news articles, TV appearances, sign-up sheets for the activities she runs so everyone else can sign their kids up, etc. several times per week. 
I literally am avoiding speaking to my best friend because I am so fed up with hearing only about her daughter. The conversation always comes back to her daughter and her struggles, how hard she is working, and how she is so stressed out. The thing is, I have an 8th grade daughter who is a lovely, normal kid (meaning she gets good grades in school and does well in a few activities that she is passionate about, but has not won any national competitions or given her own TED talk) and after talking to my friend, I get stressed out that I am not pushing my own child hard enough and should maybe expect more from her--I hate this feeling and really want to nip it in the bud. The only way I've found to do this though, is to avoid my friend. Who has been like a sister to me until she became an extreme form of tiger mom in the last couple of years. What to do?[/quote]

Tiger mom is not the issue. I have a couple sets of friends and I have to constantly hear about their kids various issues (always excusing poor performance or decisions and deflecting to someone else) and significant others. No offense, I don't give a F about your 17 year old's GF.

It's tiresome, for sure, and they talk about little else. [/quote]

I also know people like this and agree it has nothing to do with being a tiger mom. I get an earful about a friend's kid's sports team every time I meet up with her and it's so boring. It's not worth losing a friendship over, though. [/quote]

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