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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid worked hard to get accepted into college of his choice and you bet I will brag.  If someone feels sensitive, that's their own fuckin' problem.[/quote]

No one cares.

What do you get out of bragging publically? It just makes you look gauche.[/quote]

I care.  For my close friends, their kids are very important to me and I'm proud of their accomplishments.  I love reading about where they've been accepted.  I also like knowing where they were not accepted so I don't insert my foot in my mouth the next time I see them.  To me, this is the end game that everyone works hard to get to-- parents and students should be proud of what they've done and where they're going.  [/quote]

Being proud of your friends' kids is admirable. What several of us find a little less admirable is boasting, like PP does, about your own kids....[/quote]

How is saying, "So happy for Sally, who got accepted to X University today!" boasting, or any different than a parent posting something like "FIrst place at the swim meet today - great job Sally!" which is something I see all the time?  If a parent posted a overtly braggy post like, "Sally got into Harvard EA!  Of course, we had no doubt she'd get in with her 4.0 GPA, 2400 SAT, NMF, three varsity sports and her non-profit to build wells and grow food for starving children in Africa!" that would be tacky and classless, but I've NEVER seen a parent post anything like that.

Please do tell.  Perhaps my social circle is different, but we tend to welcome hearing about the successes of others' kids so we can give congratulations where congratulations is due and share our happiness with that family.  Different strokes for different folks, I suppose :)[/quote]

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