You have to be careful when bragging about your kids. Just know someone will “one-up” you almost immediately, if not sooner. For instance…
“Our baby is finally sleeping through the night”
“It’s nice right! My infant started sleeping through the first night we brought him home from the hospital”
“I think I see a tooth popping through!”
“Yay for you, of course, my infant already has his adult teeth, in fact, we let him open our soup cans”
“I think I just heard him say Mama”
“Really? I’ve been having conversations with my child for months now. He’s already moved on to Latin and Mandarin.”
“He took his first steps!”
“That’s nothing, my kid started walking as soon as he was born, in fact, I was 52cm dilated and he walked out of my uterus.”
“He has figured out how to open the baby gate!”
“Well, our kid didn’t have enough weight to push the foot pedal to open the gate, but he managed to find the toolbox and use the screwdrivers to disassemble the gate to let himself out”
“I think we are finally potty-trained after a few short weeks!”
“That’s great! Our kid was potty trained on the first try, of course, he was changing his own diapers since birth anyway”
“Our kid learns songs so quickly he has such a great memory”
“Let me know when he learns to play an instrument with precision such as mine that is the same age. He can join our band and start touring”
“First day of Kindergarten!”
“How sweet! Sorry, your kid was held back by your terrible parenting. We started at age 3 and we are already moving on to Linear Algebra at age 5”
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