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I noticed the other day that when my daughter is with her group of friends they tend to outdo each other, brag or embellish stuff to make things sound better. if someone says they did something cool at camp last summer, another girl will try to top that with a "better" story. This is an example. Or they brag about something fun they did with a friend who isn't even in this group. I am wondering if this is typical? I don't see my daughter do this at home, relating to us, and I don't see her do it with certain friends outside of her main circle. Is this a phase, this particular group...? As a parent, you don't want to see this side of your child.
I noticed the other day that when my daughter is with her group of friends they tend to outdo each other, brag or embellish stuff to make things sound better. if someone says they did something cool at camp last summer, another girl will try to top that with a "better" story. This is an example. Or they brag about something fun they did with a friend who isn't even in this group. I am wondering if this is typical? I don't see my daughter do this at home, relating to us, and I don't see her do it with certain friends outside of her main circle. Is this a phase, this particular group...? As a parent, you don't want to see this side of your child.
I dunno. I've seen the same behavior from grown men! Seriously, my older daughter, in particular, behaved like this in group situations; it drove me nuts but I don't know what you can do about it.
Yes. This is completely typical. Girls continue to do this their entire lives generally. Right now they have no control over what gets bought or whatever so they can tell stories. The adult version? My ring is bigger, my house is bigger, my purse is better, etc etc. Its just competitive nature...
It's possible. Or it's simply the social group dynamic. Volunteering in my daughter's classroom I've seen the same type of egotistical behavior and she's in 6th grade now.
I think it's pretty typical, but not universal. My daughter (7th grade) was recently complaining about a friend who constantly tries to one-up everyone. But also, it's a way girls make connections with each other--they talk about ways they're alike and different from their friends.
Developmentally, around 5th grade is a big time for girls to individuate a little bit, trying to figure out who they are and how they fit in. Sometimes, I think the pendulum can swing into bragging and sounding egotistical because they are still trying to figure out how to communicate "THIS is who I am" in a skillful way. Not everyone grows out of this phase, but I think it's pretty normal to go through it, despite it being annoying as all get out for the adults in the girls' lives.
I have all boys. My youngest is in the 6th grade. His class has 12 students with 10 of them having been in school together from Kinder. Of the seven girls in the class, five of them RUN the class. They have to be better, have the best things ect....I blame most of this on the parents. The "my kid is better than yours" attitude. The sad part is that not one boy has been on honor roll, not one boy succeeds in 6th grade competitions and not one boy in the class is in the G/T program. All five of the "leader" girls are in the G/T. I feel that the boys have just given up ever wanting to reach higher goals as the girls are always, 100% at the top. These girls are snotty, bratty, whiney and beyond disrespectful to adults. They dress like 20 year olds and already "date" Junior High kids. It's almost as if the parents are pushing them to behave way beyond their years because most parents I know would never let their daughters act like this.
My daughter is in 5th grade. She does it as well as her friends. I've had to correct her many times.
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