{"id":121742,"date":"2014-04-01T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/?p=121742"},"modified":"2014-03-31T10:37:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T14:37:26","slug":"parents-who-brag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/parents-who-brag\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s My Kid And I’ll Brag If I Want To"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Definition of Bragging: \u201dA boastful statement; an act of talking boastfully.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yeah, the same definition of bragging could also be: Rebecca Eckler and her children on FB.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d think that I\u2019d hate, like many people, parents who constantly brag about their kids on social media. I don\u2019t. I love it. Brag it on!<\/p>\n

Recently, on my FB page, I started, \u201dMommy Brag Mondays!\u201d Why? Because I have a lot to brag about when it comes to my children. I don\u2019t just want to share it with their fathers, my parents, or friends. I want the fucking world (or my 3000 followers) to know how fabulous my children are, whether they care or not. What can I say? I cooked some pretty awesome children.<\/p>\n

For my first \u201dMommy Brag Monday!\u201d I posted a photo of my daughter, holding a trophy, after coming in fourth in her first professional downhill double mogul ski race in Aspen.<\/p>\n

Apparently, I brag about Rowan, my daughter, A LOT. As one follower wrote, \u201dIs there anything your daughter can\u2019t do well?\u201d The answer is NO! She\u2019s awesome! Everything she does is amazing! And you\u2019re going to read about it if you follow me!<\/p>\n

I have posted videos of her singing, her acting in plays, her skiing, her holding up writing awards at her school (make that, ahem, four writing awards!) her getting into the National Ballet School, and also photos of her holding up gold medal ribbons after she wins in school swim meets. I have even posted her math test results! (Hello 96%)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fucking proud of my daughter\u2019s accomplishments. People are so chicken when it comes to bragging about their children, or they have to write or hashtag, \u201dhumble brag,\u201d before they post that their child won a trophy. What is a \u201dhumble brag\u201d anyway? Is it like \u201dConsciously Uncoupling<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n

I say, \u201dFuck that! Your kid won an award? Brag away!\u201d \u201dYour child made you breakfast for the first time? Brag away!\u201d \u201dYour baby is sleeping? Cute! Brag the fuck away!\u201d \u201dYour kid can pick his nose? Brag away!\u201d<\/p>\n

One woman I know posts pictures of her little guy about 12 times a day. He\u2019s six months old and I\u2019ve seen more pictures of this baby than I\u2019ve taken of my own children. He woke up! He\u2019s in the bath! He\u2019s eating his first blueberry! He\u2019s smiling! He\u2019s napping! He\u2019s just so cute! (And that\u2019s all before noon!)<\/p>\n

I LIKE these posts. Seeing how proud a mother is of her children really is heartwarming when you think about it. I love seeing photos of newborns, because why the hell shouldn\u2019t you brag? You just had a baby. It\u2019s a joyous occasion. Let the whole, entire, world know!<\/p>\n

But I also love them because I now realize that almost every single baby looks alien-like. That makes me laugh. You can\u2019t see it when it\u2019s your own baby, but when it\u2019s someone else\u2019s? Alien-looking!<\/p>\n

I also have seen, every single day, at least two babies who have been born, literally, 20 seconds earlier. It\u2019s as if the first thing on their mind is, \u201dWe got to get this picture of\u201d\u00a6do we have a name yet for our baby\u201d\u00a6whatever\u201d\u00a6up on Facebook right now!\u201d I pretty much know that I\u2019ll be seeing those newborn\u2019s every single milestone on FB or Twitter or Instagram or the newest social media site, from the minute they leave the hospital up until the first time their first tooth falls out. Yeah, there are a lot of proud parents bragging about their kid\u2019s first teeth falling out, as if they were the first parent to have a child who looses their first tooth! (I\u2019ve bragged too on FB about teeth falling out, like I, too, am the first parent to have a child loose a tooth.)<\/p>\n

I brag about my son, Holt, as well. He can paint! He is just so damn cute! He\u2019s wearing sunglasses! He has a Mohawk! He got his first kiss! Yeah, Holt is awesome too.<\/p>\n

I absolutely adore parents who brag about their teenagers and write on their FB wall, \u201dHappy Birthday to my wonderful, sweet son who is now 16! I\u2019m so proud of you! You are so special!\u201d with a photo of said sixteen year-old looking mortified, because their mother is forcing them pose for a photo that is going up on Mommy\u2019s FB page. Those make me laugh.<\/p>\n

Parents shouldn\u2019t be scared, or worried, they\u2019re going to annoy people by bragging. When you have children, how can you not? We kind of live vicariously through them, after all. Plus, I\u2019ve driven my daughter three times a week to singing lessons and have watched her swim each week for months. You bet your damn butt I\u2019m going to brag when she\u2019s in a musical or wins a gold ribbon!<\/p>\n

Tonight my daughter is singing on stage in front of a large audience. I\u2019ll be saving that video for Mommy Brag Monday on my FB page. How many Monday\u2019s are there in a year again? (Are there enough???) Plus, I much rather see a mother brag about her children than another photo of a meal someone made.<\/p>\n

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