Just agreeing with the vent about the “in real life” parents who gloat about their kids and are insensitive to the reality of other people’s situations. There is a small cadre of parents in our school who are they type to ask you about your kid, listen politely for 5 seconds, and then launch into praise for their offspring’s accomplishments, whether it is the college acceptance, the internship, the job. It is obvious they opened the conversation in order to share their precious one’s accomplishments, not for a mutual conversation. Fortunately, I don’t see many of those parents much anymore, but when I do see them, it is draining.