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My friends and their "perfect children" are making me jealous!
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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyinVA" data-source="post: 518427" data-attributes="member: 1157"><p>I can relate, as well. I admit I tended to just avoid those people after awhile, I couldn't stand to hear about their kids. If I'd had Facebook when my kids were in school, I probably would have either not been FB friends with other parents, or would have had to hide them from my feed to avoid seeing such "happy" posts about their kids LOL. Over time, I've learned to just talk about whatever positive thing I can come up with about my kids... Oldest has a job she really likes (no, she didn't go to college, it wasn't even a remote possibility). and Youngest has 2 adorable kids (she dropped out of high school and got pregnant). I just ignore the other stuff. Although yesterday, when talking to a woman who was helping her daughter look for an apartment, she mentioned how her daughter's roommate's mom wouldn't co-sign on the lease so they could get the apartment as students. She said, "I don't know why, her mom must have bad credit or something." I couldn't help it, I said, "or maybe the mom just refuses to co-sign for her kid because she doesn't want to get stuck, I know I won't do that for my kids!" The others at the table looked at me like I had 3 heads LOL. Oh well.. yeah, I'm a bit outspoken sometimes ;-) </p><p></p><p>I will say this: I've learned that sometimes, those "perfect" families aren't as perfect as we think they are. Frequently their braggings are covering up their own "skeletons" that they don't want to discuss. Each family has its own challenges.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazyinVA, post: 518427, member: 1157"] I can relate, as well. I admit I tended to just avoid those people after awhile, I couldn't stand to hear about their kids. If I'd had Facebook when my kids were in school, I probably would have either not been FB friends with other parents, or would have had to hide them from my feed to avoid seeing such "happy" posts about their kids LOL. Over time, I've learned to just talk about whatever positive thing I can come up with about my kids... Oldest has a job she really likes (no, she didn't go to college, it wasn't even a remote possibility). and Youngest has 2 adorable kids (she dropped out of high school and got pregnant). I just ignore the other stuff. Although yesterday, when talking to a woman who was helping her daughter look for an apartment, she mentioned how her daughter's roommate's mom wouldn't co-sign on the lease so they could get the apartment as students. She said, "I don't know why, her mom must have bad credit or something." I couldn't help it, I said, "or maybe the mom just refuses to co-sign for her kid because she doesn't want to get stuck, I know I won't do that for my kids!" The others at the table looked at me like I had 3 heads LOL. Oh well.. yeah, I'm a bit outspoken sometimes ;-) I will say this: I've learned that sometimes, those "perfect" families aren't as perfect as we think they are. Frequently their braggings are covering up their own "skeletons" that they don't want to discuss. Each family has its own challenges. [/QUOTE]
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