I will ignore it if it's coming out as braggy, but sometimes I discuss it with other mom's. I think in a discussion about it, we all know that kids are different. What does bother me is when my grandma or my aunt tell me if my child "should" be doing something at this age and isn't, yet.

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DH's stepsister was pregnant the same time i was. I don't know what her problem was, maybe it was because her mother and i didn't get along or what but from the moment she got pregnant it was like a huge competition to her. If i was sick with morning sickness, she had it ten times worse, etc.
Our babies were born 6 weeks apart ( i was first to deliver) and this competition thing got really bad with her, her mother was even helping to add to it. She lived with dh's dad and stepmom so i had to endure her constant bragging and comparisons every time we visited dh's father. They would ask me, is D crawling yet??? Well, J's been crawling for a month now! J's got 2 teeth at 4mths old (my ds didn't get any teeth until 10mths old) so of course J was eating steak and lobster by the time my ds got teeth. I would find my dh's stepsister staring intently at my baby all the time, like she was just looking for flaws to point out or something, it was very annoying. She would even exagerate milestones just for the sake of saying her DS did something before mine ever did.
So i finally snapped at her one day when she made some comment about my baby's weight. (he's always been tall and thin)She had asked me if i ever fed him. That did it. I totally unloaded on her all those months of pent up frustrations. I told her " I wasn't going to endure every visit to my ds's grandfathers house turning into a who-has-the-better-baby contest and if she is so proud of her baby's milestone's to please write them down in his baby book and spare me the bragfest because i came to visit with Dh's father and not play her stupid competitive games!" Surprisingly it worked for awhile, she went on to have 3 more kids so i think she just got too tired to compare kids anymore? LOL.

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Not really, actually the ones that had younger kids walking and all that envied me because ds was still in the small car seat carrier at a year! He didn't weigh enough, and he wasn't walking yet.

I only felt uncomfortable once when my friend - who was not bragging - told me her daughter knew the alphabet at before a year. I have seen it with my own eyes, she was talking and DID know the alphabet at before a year! I started thinking I wasn't doing enough!

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yes I've encountered them and it happens quite often..I can't decide which is more annoying, those type of parents or the ones who try and tell you how they do things and how you should do them as well...
I just bite my tongue, but having a 16 month old, I know I will have to do this alot more years ie..school, activites, etc...

UGH>>> yes, I've encountered these parents and they are something..Not fun to deal with, but you just can't let them get to you!

I brag on my children! I am proud of their accomplishments! Just as I am proud of my nieces and nephews and friends babies when they reach various milestones. I have four kids and I know all too well how they reach milestones at different stages. One started walking at 12 months, one at 17 1/2 months, one potty trained by 2 1/2, one not potty trained until 4. But when they each reach those milestones, I brag about them! I try not to do it in a competitive way, I'm just so proud of them and happy for them that I want everyone to know. And I get equally excited and happy about other kids reaching them as well. It's just great seeing what they have learned to do!

So am I one of those moms you ladies dislike?

the only time I really brag on early milestones is when parents are talking potty training and to me its more Of man I got lucky I didnt have to go threu all that! but then I do mention it was harder for oldest dd since she had UTIs and bladder reflux etc! but to me Im just saying how lucky I was not having to go thru all that!

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It doesn't bother me so much anymore, I don't think that it bothered me so much when my kids were younger either.

There is one lady who drives me crazy with her bragging on her ds constantly. She's one of those types that can't shut up no matter what she's talkinga bout. No one else can get a word in when she is around. The last couple times that I had to be around her, I mentioned how good my dd (7) was doing in school and she would be going into the gifted classes and one time about ds (11) who went from D's & F's to A's & B's just from not playing video games and she started in on her ds (4) and how smart he is and knows everything that my kids know now.. Overtook the whole conversation and kept talking about her ds for 45 minutes. (yes, I timed her! ) Stuff like that drives me crazy when it doesn't even apply to what is being said.

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If I come across them I don't notice. I'm not competative at all. I'm just a whatever kind of girl. I'm probably not a fun person to brag to because I don't notice it if it happens. I know every kid is different.

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Nope! Telling and bragging are two different things. I'm sure you are the one that excitedly tells people and I think that is good. I think the OP was talking about maybe seeing another child Not hitting a milestone and then saying, "Hmmm, well, I know Susie has been talking for ages!" That kind of thing.

When ds slept through the night for the first time I called up everyone I knew that had kids sleeping through the night and told them! But I did not call my friends that had kids Not sleeping through the night. To me that would have been mean.