Don’t boast about how much I love my child, the more I show off, the more foolish and miserable my child will feel.

Many parents can't help but feel proud of their children and often boast and show off about them. However, psychological experts advise against these bragging tendencies if you don't want to harm your child.

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Bragging about your child is an action that shows the joy and pride you have in your child, sometimes it is a manifestation of your own pride. Many parents boast about their child’s achievements to show off their own success in parenting and teaching. However, this bragging can sometimes make your child uncomfortable and be detrimental to their development. Therefore, it is better to refrain from bragging about these things:

Avoid bragging about your child’s accomplishments

Boasting about your child’s achievements to neighbors or on social media is not good for your child. When children see their parents bragging, they will feel pressured to maintain their achievements or become arrogant. Both of these feelings are not good for the child’s development. Sometimes excessive bragging can make the child feel ashamed and want to avoid social interaction when accompanied by their parents. Furthermore, your bragging may create challenges for your child, making other children not want to play with them and causing others to have a negative impression of you and your child. When your child achieves something, acknowledge and encourage them, you can reward them and celebrate as a family, but avoid excessive bragging to the outside world.

Avoid bragging about your child’s talents

Many babies are born with talents such as singing, dancing… and parents often demand that their child showcase these talents for others. Sometimes they force them to sing, recite poems, tell stories, or dance… If your child wants to showcase their talents, encourage them, but don’t force them to do it just to satisfy your own desire for bragging. Children who are forced to showcase their talents in such a way will not enjoy it and will not be comfortable. Moreover, they may even lose interest in those talents because they feel pressured and forced by their parents.

Avoid bragging about your child’s understanding

Each child is a unique world of personality and intelligence. Therefore, not every child thinks and perceives things in the same way. So, don’t brag about how your child understands things better than other people. Also, don’t brag about how your child listens to parents and teachers without any differences. For example, if another child draws an apple in blue, but your child colors it red when portraying an apple, that doesn’t mean your child is more knowledgeable. We should not behave in such a manner, as children with different ways of thinking are often the ones with special intelligence. Different ways of thinking lead children to a world of creativity. As parents, we need to make our children feel accepted, help them understand the concept of individuality and uniqueness. We can express our unconditional love and support for them, but they should also be given the freedom to be obedient as well as the freedom to break the rules within limits.

Avoid bragging about exposing your child’s privacy

Revealing private information such as photos, names, and birth dates of your child can be dangerous. Moreover, it is a matter of privacy that should require the child’s consent before being shared on social media. Especially, do not share “negative” things about your child as a funny story because it may cause the child to feel insecure and ashamed, and they may become the subject of ridicule. Everyone feels proud when they see their child surpassing others, but showing it off to the world is unnecessary when you should protect their privacy. If you are willing to sacrifice privacy and are ready to listen to other people’s comments, then go ahead and brag, but can you gauge whether your child can accept that? Therefore, it is best not to brag.

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