Do you brag about your kids?

nowayout
Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:42:28 +0000

Let me ask this, does anybody know some masochistic people who insist on asking direct questions --such as SAT results --when they know their kid’s performance didn’t get even close to your child’s? I have a dear friend who does that. Her son is a wonderful young man, with many talents, but not academic ones, like my daughters. I try my best to omit any academic stuff about my two daughters, but sometimes she is so insistent and direct that I end up saying more than I want.

In general, I try my best not to brag, but I am guilty of a little bragging every once in a while. It’s not really bragging, but my kids do well academically so it is hard not to do it sometimes. Unless I don’t talk about them, which is becoming more and more the case. But having been around people that brag, I have learned how annoying it can be. Same for people who won’t stop talking about their kids and never ask or show interest about yours.