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Hilarious:

1. OP has one kid in Kindergarten. Harvard is just around the corner!

2. She's very proud of her child. Who can read in K. Literally no other child has ever been so gifted.

3. And everything is always about her and her child. No one should ever say anything that she could ever interpret personally and negatively. Except she will. People, either you shut up around OP or you shower her with compliments about her child, who is READING in KINDERGARTEN!!!

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Op here. I actually have 3 kids. Dh and I both are ivy educated.[/quote]

If this is a troll playing extremely 'insufferable and insecure mother of academically average' kids, kudos.

If OP is genuine, then this is exactly why I never talk about my kids' academics with other parents, especially the ones who fish for information so they can make an unofficial ranking in their heads. There are a quite of few of those parents in my oldest kid's grade (the worst are the parents with high prestige jobs.) We privately do enrichment and acceleration in math and our kid is really far ahead. But I've never said a peep about it to anyone except my family and the teachers. My oldest doesn't complain about being bored, and that is due to demeanor, not intelligence. [/quote]

I am the OP. I am not a troll. I have three kids in public and considering private school for our three kids. My youngest is in kindergarten. Dh and I are ivy educated. We live in a wealthy neighborhood where most people have high prestige jobs and everyone thinks their kids are gifted. Many of our kids’ friends have friends with ivy educations. When my older kids were younger, there were parents who would often say their kids were bored in school. They don’t say this as much as kids get older. Now I’m again hearing it in kindergarten. At our highly regarded preschool, I did not hear anyone say their kid was bored because our kids played all day. Nothing boring about that.[/quote]

Man, I am so glad I didn’t go to an Ivy. [/quote]

+1. This is why we don't do a country club or travel sports either. The participants are insufferable. [/quote]

Travel sports in my area are heavily populated by hardworking immigrant families with kids with admirable work ethic. But I agree with you re country clubs and Ivies. [/quote]

Where I am the travel sports parents are all Va Tech Bro Dad types. [/quote]

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