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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My family is like this.  Have you considered everyone already knows your parents are lying/exaggerating anyway?  Don't tell your kids to lie.  If someone brings something up, just ask like it is a misunderstanding, "Actually, DS was accepted to Radford rather than Harvard.  He is planning on studying art there next year."  I agree, there is no need for drama and no need to bring the subjects up unless people ask. [/quote]

The magnitude of the lying or embellishing is not clear to me.
Are the ILs making actual events up, like Larla got in to Harvard or Larla won the spelling Bee?  Or just saying, Larla is so smart or Larla plays soccer the best.?  Lots of parents or bubbly grandparents say the latter. Big deal.
But making up achievements in front of or to a child is silly at best and damaging at worst.

Can you have fun with it and dish it back?  ooh, I heard GrM won the state fair pie contest!  Then turned around and did a world tour with her choir![/quote]

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