re: When is it acceptable to brag on social media about your kid’s athletic achievements?

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Obviously 8 year old baseball tournaments are trashy, but what about 14 year old elite 11 rankings? Or state tournament pics? I say once they start playing high school athletics it is okay. Before then nobody cares.

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I text my mom and dad and my in laws about my youngest son's weekend baseball achievements, if they won a tournament, he went 4 for 4 or something like that and my oldest son's wrestling tournament results.

Now when my oldest won the Louisiana State Championship Division 1 wrestling tournament in 2020, I posted that on FB. I was so damn proud, he worked is arse off for 7 years to earn that title his senior year. I wanted all of my friends and family to know, I didn't care if anyone thought it was trashy to do so!

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get off of facebook if you have no interest in people's not so subtle life brags.

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I’m not on social media to see what family and friends are up to… I’m there to find rage bait to bring to TD because I’m well adjusted and the people posting about their kids’ accomplishments are insecure

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When is it acceptable to brag on social media about your kid’s athletic achievements?

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When they go pro

Never cause I don’t care what your kid does nor do you care what my kid does.

Everything on social media is about motives

If your motive for posting about your kid's athletic accomplishments is to draw attention to yourself, you suck (this is probably most of the instances)

If your primary motive is to inform family/friends and celebrate an achievement of your kid in shared fashion, that's great.

Of course, most very-online moms will do the former on the claimed basis of the latter.

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anyone successful is made fun of on here.

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"Little JaBraxxton hit three homers in T-ball last night. YAY JaBraxxton!!!! "

Not exactly in the realm of "success"

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If your motive for posting about your kid's athletic accomplishments is to draw attention to yourself, you suck (this is probably most of the instances)

If your primary motive is to inform family/friends and celebrate an achievement of your kid in shared fashion, that's great.

Of course, most very-online moms will do the former on the claimed basis of the latter.

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very wise observation

Facebook is great if used correctly. If you only include real friends and family on your feed, then that's the original purpose of facebook. I enjoy seeing my cousin's kids scoring a Touchdown or my friend's son winning homecoming king, or my nephew hitting homeruns, or my DJ friend rocking a nightclub.

If you remove all of the friends on your list that aren't actually friends but somehow became friends on FB over the years, Facebook is actually great

I don’t social media much but for FB I would keep it to a small group of family and close friends.

For the general public, and maybe just for key games something generic like “So proud of the Washington High Warriors victory over Whatever High!”

i taught my 3 year old daughter to say KOBE! after throwing a ball in the air. i bragged about that shite all on facebook because no one gives a frick about social media.