I don't think I brag in person. I may sometime be guilty of too many funny-cute-slightly braggy Facebook updates about my kids.

We have experienced a lot of uncomfortable conversations with friends since moving DD to the gifted magnet school, so I'm pretty careful about it at present.

I used to do a lot of "Well, yes, she can...but boy, does she ever...." I have stopped that. I realized that duh, kids listen, and it wasn't a good message. FTR, this was always in response to "Wow--she can ____?"

I still say, when testing comes up, "Well, testing is really imperfect...so hard to tell...some kids are late bloomers...some kids don't test well..." (I do believe all these things. But I may be a little too quick to mention them.)