Do you want to brag on your children?

My son got straight As for the first marking period! He also told me that he wants to postpone Christmas until his dad gets home from Iraq (I thought that was awesome because he knows it’s more about who we celebrate with than when we celebrate). He also has been helping me a lot around the house since my husband left (like helping taking out the trash and putting away his clothes). He’s awesome!

My son got straight A’s all last year, (Junior), including three pre-college level courses, one of which is pre-calc. I shudder just thinking about it. He continues straight A’s this year and is studying Japanese. Apparently he talked the school into letting him do this rather than another language, though the school did not offer it to begin with.
My youngest is in a performing arts school, (6th) grade thatshe had to write a paper for to get accepted. I’m really proud of both of them.

All I have is sad tales right now.

My oldest son had a severe stroke three years ago and then broke his leg in August. He is on a third floor walk up and has been waiting for the housing authority to get him a first floor apartment for months.

My youngest son has been out of work now for nearly a full year. His family is struggling on various government benefits and living in a house we are paying for.

My kids are all on honor roll, dean’s list, or the equivalent. One of my youngest is finishing up 8 months in Japan on a full ride scholarship. Have another who is taking a brush-up class in anatomy and physiology, and at the same time she’s tutoring it for first time students. Her teacher was so impressed, she asked her to substitute teach for her.

My oldest son is in the honors college at WIU. He is a math genius and anime artist. This summer he spent three weeks in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for a student exchange.

My youngest son plays a mean jazz flute and has received many awards for his talent. He quit recently, but is determined to continue with his 4.0. He’s a junior in high school and has dreams of becoming a teacher some day.

Both sons were/are stars on the scholastic bowl team.

My six year old daughter is following in her brothers’ footsteps. She loves to read, is in an accelerated reading group in first grade, and is a beautiful artist.

They are all very compassionate. This makes me the happiest. :)

My cat can jump really high!

They’re mine & they’re awesome, hey….that’s good enough for me.

All of your children sound really marvelous, but I can state, as an absolute, indisputable fact that I have the most fabulous kid on the planet.

I know all parents think that their children are the most beautiful, gifted and wonderful in the world, but in my case it actually happens to be true.

@meiosis: See above you.

@meiosis and @JilltheTooth, have you figured out yet that you’re clearly the other parent of each other’s children that doesn’t know the other goes on Fluther? It’s the only explanation.

@JilltheTooth @ucme @meiosis What do they do? What do they do? What are they up to? What are their interests? How are they different from you?

OK, @wundayatta , you asked! My daughter has always been the one to make sure the shy or lonely child has a friend, she’s always been a great student, with very little prompting from me, eventually winning a hefty merit scholarship from a private university. Her outrage at any type of injustice started at a very young age. Her humor is familiar to most of you, she makes good, considered choices in life, she neither asks nor expects a free ride from anyone…how’m I doing, so far? There aren’t enough good things I can say about her. To even things out a bit, she gets pissy sometimes, but I have seen her change her mind when presented with new info. Bored, yet? Yeah, I’m a doting Mom, but she’s a better person than I am and I’m fantastically proud of her! That must have been some seriously super sperm I bought!

@JilltheTooth LOL re sperm comment. Yes, that was great!

@JilltheTooth: D’awwwwwwww!

I don’t have to generally brag about them, everyone seems to understand they’re awesome because they’re so darn quirky and fun. My 4 and a half year old is exalted by all his Montessori teachers for being very smart but incapable of focusing, lol, which is fine by me. He loves to swim and does a really good job every week when Alex takes him for his private lesson – he works really really hard and that’s amazing to see. He’s a real goof-ball and is pretty good at getting logic and compassion (even if he doesn’t always want to practice either) – these days he’s done with his Music Together experience (too old, I think) and I just got him started on ballroom dance. He says he wants to be a teacher when he grows up but Alex says he’s going to be an astronaut. My youngest is the cutest baby bird ever – he’s uber-intelligent, just like his father, he can figure anything out in one try and then we never have to teach it to him again, he grasps concepts, is completely bilingual and has this really strong personality, like me (we were born on the same day). He demands excitement, demands new activities, he’s always moving, always on the go, always chatting away. He’s in Music Together right now and is doing wonderfully and he really loves all kinds of instruments and I think he’ll be really into music. Alex says he’s going to be an explorer or an archeologist of some kind, :) Anyway, people who hate kids love mine.

@wundayatta You see, it’s just I have no desire to share that information with you. I feel like something so special & dear to me would be, well…... kind of wasted divulging it here. I’d save that exclusivity for those around me i’m close to. Gives it more gravitas, you know?

@wundayatta The thing is that they’re just kids, they do the mundane, ordinary things that other kids do and which isn’t, objectively, special. However, I’m just a parent, doing the mundane, ordinary things that other parents do, including thinking (subjectively of course) that they are the bee’s knees.