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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's wrong with highlighting your kids' achievements? And how does it turn into bragging depending on the audience. If my friend's child is a better swimmer, or skier, or footballer, or whatever than mine, I don't mind hearing about it. I actually get really excited about that child. Even more, if my child is aspiring to get better at those same things, i'll ask for advice. Same goes with school stuff.

So, because people don't want to know that they did bad, they don't want to hear that you did well.

This is all part of the consolation prize mentality.

Like Trump says 'we don't win anymore'.  :lol:  :lol: [/quote]

No - if they’re that great people will see it for themselves - no highlighting is needed. [/quote]

Thank God I don't have friends like you! [/quote]

Well, I definitely have too many friends, so therein could lie the problem. Maybe I’m hearing it from too many people, so I don’t have as much patience for it and too many that I’m hearing it from aren’t my truly best friends. Usually the worst culprit is social media.  I have 1,000+ FB friends - all of whom I personally know.  I try to start unfollowing if it gets too much.

I don’t live in a crazy AAP area and I think most of my friends are trying to be relaxed about things. Usually if someone is bad about bragging too much an alert goes out to the group to beware because we are all on the same page about trying to relax about things and not be competitive about our kids. And guess what - I’ll even be friends with those people and politely nod, but they won’t be my best friends if it is too much. And I’m not talking about genuinely being happy about something someone worked hard for, etc.

When my kid got into AAP people even said I’m happy to hear when a “sleeper” like your Dc gets in, more than someone who’s been bragging about how their kid is bored all the time and has to slum it with our kids in K-2 etc.

To each his own.[/quote]

I’m with you!  I have many friends, several of them really good friends.  The good ones are not full of themselves.  We talk about lots of things in our kids’ lives, including AAP, but it’s not a brag fest.  [/quote]

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