Parents Using College Acceptances to Compete

Nrdsb4
Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:33:36 +0000

Funny, pouncecat. Of course, I only joined facebook, years ago, to keep an eye on my kids and what they were getting up to on there, just a bit of supervision. But, now, with all the people who have friended me, it would feel rude to just close the account.



Ditto, exactly.

What I don’t get is all the people who friend me with no comment or note and I never hear from them again. What’s the point?

As to the difference between “being excited and proud” and “bragging,” I couldn’t exactly verbalize it. But I think most of us know bragging when we hear it. And we’ve probably all been guilty of it at one point or another.

We know a man whose bragging on his D just knows no end. The thing is, he never exaggerates or makes up stuff. She really is as wonderful as he says. But it’s just flat obnoxious to hear about it constantly, with never an inquiry about how our D is doing, what she might be up to, etc. I just finally decided he must not be all that happy in his own life, so this is where he finds joy. So be it.