May 13, 2008

• A friend of mine recently went out to dinner with a group of moms from her 2 year old daughter's daycare center.  She said the night started out fine, but quickly digressed into a "Mommy bragfest".  Apparently, it was sickening.  Everyone just went on and on about their kids, trying to one-up everyone else.  And it's not like they were talking about college acceptances - these are 2 and 3 year old kids!

  I've definitely been in similar situations, and it is really annoying.  What causes this?  Do these mothers really think we want to know every single detail of each milestone their kid reached at such "an early age"?  I know that secretly, on the inside, every mother thinks her toddler is a genius.  But keep it to yourself!!!  No one else wants to hear about it!  Is it some kind of survival-of-the-fittest-instinct thing?  Or like when dogs try to establish dominance?  For instance, when a bunch of moms find themselves clustered together do they have to try to verbally one-up each other until they've established which kid is more advanced?

  The thing about these mommy bragfests is that sometimes it is SO HARD to resist getting sucked in.  After 20 minutes of standing around a playground hearing about the highly advanced gross motor skills of little Jonny So and So, sometimes instead of "Shut up, please" you just hear yourself blurting out, "Well, my little one could climb the ladder at 9 months".  

   

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