The article makes the following guidelines about when to brag abut your child: (read article for details )
1. Brag about how good a child you have, not how good a parent you are.
2. Brag about effort, not accomplishment.
3. Brag in context.
4. Follow “the bragging formula.” Another common piece of advice — each time you criticize someone, you should give multiple compliments — applies equally well in reverse. Each boast about a child should come surrounded by three negatives. My son is on the honor roll (but still wets his bed).
5. Don’t brag about something everyone else struggles with.
6. In-and-out brag. Approach bragging as your child approaches cough syrup: If you must do it, get it over quickly.
7. Avoid double bragging. Parents are also not allowed to use their children’s lives to draw attention to their own past glories.
8. Bragging to Granny is allowed. Everyone agrees that boasting to your own parents is not just acceptable, it’s desirable.
9. Bundle brag. Be careful to compliment your own daughter, only after doing the same to all of her nieces and nephews.
Ain’t no brag if you can do it.
Just what I'd expect from the NYet Times. When it comes to the marketing of American exceptionalism, we aren't permitted to say that this nation is on whole better than any other place.
Barack Obama omits the "boast" element and just cites the three negatives in every speech at home and abroad. "Until I got here..."