MOMVERSATION MONDAY: How Do You Deal With A Competetive Mom?

Guests (and authors of Today's Moms: Essentials for Surviving Baby's First Year) Alicia Ybarbo and Mary Ann Zoellner ask, "How do you deal with super-competitive moms?"

Well let me tell you that I didn't even know that asking how old you child was when they hit a milestone meant that you were competitive. When I had my first son I asked because I had no clue what I was doing and I wanted to know from other moms to make sure it was normal for a kid to be doing certain stuff.

But I have met my fair share of moms who do ask to one up the other mom.
And I don't know why! It's kind of annoying.
It is usually the only thing that mom wants to talk about and it makes me mad that they want to put their child on a pedestal and make yours look like all he does is pick his nose (I give my kid props for having the hand-eye co-ordination to do that). I get it, you child needs a membership to MENSA. Einstein has nothing on your kid. I'm glad we've now established that, now if we could move on to something other than your child's brilliance I would totally appreciate it!
We all keep talking about how each kid is different so why do we compete?

When it comes to clothing, I don't call it bragging when I find a great sale, I call it informative. Because there are sometimes when I tell a friend about a sale, most of the time I get the "I didn't know they were having a sale" response. I'd hope my friends would do the same because when it comes to kids clothes in this economy why spend full price on something they are going to grow out of?

Most of the time I would do like Rebecca and let the other mom win the competition. I mean if it means that much for you to win something like, so be it.