Are we being honest?

MomLive
Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:51:38 +0000

My children’s friends’ parents tell me that MY kids are wonderful–helpful, polite, etc etc. It requires all my self-control not to make smart-aleck responses back about they way they REALLY are at home.



LOL - same exact experience here. Kids naturally reserve their worst behavior for home.



I give her the list of super-safeties, then ask her what her D is interested in studying. Works like a charm.



Exactly what I’ve been doing - giving a list of the super-safeties is a trick I learned here at CC. I said something vague like ‘He’s applying to the state schools and a few others’ and quickly redirect the conversation. IMHO, no good can come from giving out a list of the schools my son is applying to at this point. I’m afraid it will seem like I’m bragging when I list his high reach schools and I will have to go back later and report he didn’t get in (which he probably won’t). Really - it’s nobody’s business and I have stopped asking other parents the same question.