Yes, the Social Media Boasting season, or SMoasting season as I like to call it, has flung open its doors as it always does after results day.
The most hilarious example I received was online from a 'friend' .
"How did you do at Slimming Wold last night ? " she asked innocently.
"3lbs" I replied knowing full well why she'd got in touch
"2lbs" she countered, adding , " Oh and [insert son's name here] got A* A* A and he was only 2 marks off a third A* - so we're having his paper re-marked "
I could have wet myself laughing.
Youngest son did so well but I'm not about to splash his grades across Facebook for the world to see. No gloating here. I'll let close friends and family know privately ... if they ask .... but I'm content to let him smile quietly to himself in the knowledge that he worked his socks off, acheived the kind of success of which he can be proud and let the rest of the helicopter Mums brag from the rooftops that their offspring are clearly child geniuses ... then wait for them to unravel when they get out into the big bad world and realise that one of the finest gifts your parents could have bestowed on you , is that of quiet modesty.
I think a lot of these smoasting parents would be gutted if they knew how many uni grad's CV don't even get looked at by employers. I've never considered them, neither has my sister or a lot of my HR friends. So unless their little offspring want to be doctors etc they're wasting their time with uni x
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