I will add that I do not hang out with a braggy group. Some of my friends' kids are pretty athletic, I think, but in most cases I am unclear what the actual level of skill is because they aren't really talking about it. No one EVER brags to me about academics and their kid, although I think my child sort of holds the "nerd" title in my group of friends. You know, the only thing I see people crowing about is the # of 5Ks their kids run, their kids wanting to run with them, etc. Every once in a while people get excited about a book their kid is reading, I guess.