Sporting Life in America: Competitive Bragging

NYT: "Honk if You Adore My Child Too."

"For a generation of successful upper-middle-class parents deeply involved in their children's development, filial pride can easily go overboard. Competitive bragging has become a new social sport, with a vast field of play that includes practically any public place, from the office coffee cart to the supermarket checkout line. The puffery is so inescapable, it has inspired a backlash: anti-brag bumper stickers, shirts and pins with slogans like 'My kid sells term papers to your honor student.'"