It's a phase....I hope : ) Smile and nod. I would guess the less reaction you give, the quicker it will go away.

Enjoy your skid free 2 weeks

I completely understand. My SIL did this same crap only her statement of her greatness was "I'm spe----cial!" I wanted to :sick: :sick: :sick: every time she said that crap. We assumed guardianship of her when she was 17 after she graduated from HS when my ILs signed approval for her to graduate a year early. If any kid in the history of human life ever needed her Sr year of high school to mature it is my SIL.

To save money the geniuses of the Peoples Republic of Sperm Land decided to lower the graduation requirements. My SIL was in the class that started their Jr year under the new lower requirements. Those kids could opt to either graduate at the end of their Jr year or go on to Sr year based on parental approval. My DW and I did everything we could to convince my FIL and MIL to force her to take her Sr year.

Nope, my ILs told us that "we raise our children to be self reliant adults, to support themselves and to make their own decisions" and they sighed the parental approval to graduate the year early. My SIL was and remains mostly functionally illiterate. She is a math savant and is brilliant mathematically but other than that she and a rock could do well against each other in any intellectual competition.

As for raising their children to be self reliant adults who make their own decisions .... my ILs have declared bankruptcy multiple times, both of my BILs have declared bankruptcy, and my SIL and her DH have also. They all have multiple car repossessions and the creditors wait outside their home and their work, and call constantly. So much for raising your children to be self reliant quality decision making adults.

Except for my bride of course. She made her mistakes early (16 & Pregnant/Teen Mom) but when on to graduate with her HS class with honors, a dual major BS with honors, an MBA with honors and have a successful career as a CPA. Her financially retarded family drives her nucking futz.

So, rather than abandon my SIL to be the 7-11 night clerk with children by God knows how many children by the same number of fathers I recommended to DW that we assume guardianship when she graduated from HS, move her to our state and home where she would be part of our family. We would pay for college for her, a car, all of her expenses and in return she would do housekeeping, yard work and be home for the Skid when he got home from school. Day and lawn care was costing us about 500/mo so adding her support and college costs while not having to pay daycare and lawn care costs was not a huge stretch

So started my year of living with the queen of "I'm Spe---cial!" I wanted to puke for that whole year every time that disgusting crap left her lips.

She tried to skip class when she felt like it, tried to turn in 5th grade work on anything but math assignments, etc..... I finally had to start calling bullshit and rolling out the facts every time she pulled that special bullshit.

So I did. I put her college freshman papers next to my then 5th grad SS's papers (he was reading and writing at a HS Sr. level) and asked her what looked so special about her work?

My DW made her write, re-write, edit, edit, and edit some more. She finally started improving because we did not tolerate her "I'm Spe---cial!" crap.

She completed her freshman year of college with a 3.0 GPA. Her math grades were the life saver but she did get at least Cs in all classes including freshman English and other writing intensive courses.

After that year when she turned 18 she left to return to her hood looking BF where she did have an out of wedlock child before finally marrying him. She did stay in school until she had capped her school loans (~80K) and failed to keep an acceptable GPA. If she had stayed with us she would have graduated with a BSMgt and had a reasonable chance of a decent life. The only reason she even got in to college was because my DW as a legacy of that University and was able to wrangle a provisional probationary acceptance for SIL. She and her husband (who turned out to be a very good guy) lost their home, cars, etc... and SIL keeps getting fired for attendance issues, etc...

I still bare her ass by asking her "how being so spe---cial is working out for her" when we visit my IL clan when she pulls the spe---cial crap.

Evil }:) I know but if she is nothing special I am not letting her claim spe---cialness without giving her clarity on the facts.

Yes, I am the BIL/SIL from hell sometimes.

My SS20 went through a patch of talking about tigers incessantly at dinner. We'd all be having a nice conversation about something non-tiger related and he'd butt in and start talking about them - a video he'd seen of tigers, a random fact etc. He came to stay for 3 weeks in a row when BM went on holiday and I was about to go clinically insane so I decided instead to make it into a secret game. Where I got a reward if he spoke of tigers 3x during dinner, less reward for 2x and a small one for 1x. So then I was HOPING for him to talk about tigers. Childish I know but was the only thing that got me through!

Rags and Gemini, I can't! SS14 always talks about how he's the best at everything. About 2 weeks ago, SO tells me, "Oh did you know that the teacher told me that SS9 won for the relay race on the field trip? She said he's the fastest kid in the class! And SS9 is so humble, he never even mentioned it!" SS14 jumps in and says, "Well I'm actually the strongest kid IN THE SCHOOL!". He's also currently an aspiring boxer, says that he's waiting for the Money Team to scout him. Believes he will meet Floyd Mayweather and become a billionaire. I keep trying to encourage a Plan B, cause you know, most of us don't usually successfully make it to our initial planned acting/singing/dancing career, but no. He just started boxing I want to say 2 months ago and is already the BEST boxer. He even gave himself the acronyms TBE, The Best Ever.

Oh, lets not forget, he's also the "Smartest one in class". Goes to the IP or IE or whatever that special class is, but states he gets the best grades. Thing is, I honestly don't believe he needs to be in the special ed class, I think he can make it in the regular classes. But of course since BM1 put him in 4 years ago SO states it's been a bitch to try to get him out. Can't make this shit up even if I tried. TBE at school AND strength AND boxing. I don't want to kill his boy ego, so I say nothing. I just sigh inside.

Just maybe she is awesome in which case it would be a bad idea to get on the rough side of her. When she's grown and Dictator of the World she could make life tough for you.

My skids will walk around singing 'I'm so awesome, I'm so great, everyone loves me, I'm gonna be famous!' or some shit like that.

My SS went through similar phases like that.

First it was "I know". It was a reflexive response to everything. It was really irritating.

SS: "Drac0, what time is it?"

Me: "It's 12:30."

SS: "I know."

Me: ????

DW and I started calling him on it. "Well if you *know* why are you asking!?"

And then it was "Fail!".

SS: "What are we having for dinner?"

Me: "Pork chops."

SS: "EW! Fail!"

I called him on that too. Every time he uttered the word "Fail" I said, "SS, you shouldn't be talking about your grades like that."

If I had to deal with this, I'd give that kid an even more annoying answer EVERY time she said it: "Hi Awesome, I'm ncgal. Nice to meet you." Then I'd force her to shake my hand. Every. Time!

Show her how stupid and annoying it is. Maybe she'll stop just so you'll stop answering her that way!