kimck - I know, it is ridiculous how competitive people can be about these things. Most of the people aren't that bad but there is one woman who is determined that her children are the absolute best at everything. She's become kind of a joke to the rest of us (that's bad isn't it?). When my DS was testing for the gifted program I mentioned something to her about it, as I assumed her brilliant ones must be in the program, and she had NEVER even heard of it. Made me realize things aren't always as they are presented to you.

But to be honest, this is a small minority of the parents there and I generally just stay away. I'm not into the whole competition thing and I hang out with the ones who don't care about that kind of stuff either.