Sometimes I contemplate pointing out the tackiness of such posts, but he's a grown adult who doesn't need me to point out such things... right?
How long have you been my Facebook friend??
Honestly, I've always believed that if you have to tell people you're smart, you're not smart. Just be yourself, and people will figure it out from there. So if I post a picture with my DD6 giving her mom a guitar lesson, or post a hilarious quote from DD that happened to include some advanced concepts or vocabulary, people will figure it out on their own.
I don't know if it's profitable to assume adults will naturally act like adults. For example, my daughter has had issues with a playmate across the street for years now, and the friendship officially ended this month... but not because of any behavior between the kids. The other mother decided she needed to intervene, so she called my wife to tell her how to parent our own daughter. And the mom's behavior got worse from there.
I've seen the opposite end of the adult dependence on the child for validation, too. I have an aunt whose two daughters are very bright. At some point the oldest started becoming demotivated, though, and every single time I saw them, my aunt would publicly shame her to me about how her attitude needed to improve, grades needed to improve, etc, while talking about her in the third-person invisible. And I was left wondering who else she was saying all this stuff to, how often she was hearing it, etc. This kid ended up dropping out of college and working at Walmart. I can't help but think there's a relationship between her underachievement and her mother's demand for perfection.
