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OMG. Parents of pre-teen girls, I NEED ADVICE!
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<blockquote data-quote="ellenr1" data-source="post: 53606" data-attributes="member: 2547"><p>Girls can be so mean, and I speak as the object of the Queen Bee's scorn when I was 10/11, and the mother of a soon to be 11 yr old Queen Bee. </p><p></p><p>When I would see her behavior veering into Mean Girl-dom, I'd tell her that her friends will not put up with her attitude and she had been come back down to earth fast. I even asked one of her ladies-in-waiting if my easy child is bossy, and she looked down at the ground and didn't want to answer me. I spoke to my kid after that. Of course she denies it, but at least she knows she does have to answer to me, and she knows I'm watching from a distance. If she gets a reputation as a Mean Girl, she will feel the icy sting of isolation when people get sick of her attitude. She lost a friendship with a very sweet little girl a couple of years ago, and I believe that it was because she got too bossy and demanding. And she was terribly hurt.</p><p></p><p>What I worry about is if she insults or hurts another vulnerable child. I've warned her that if she abuses her priveleges with the cell phone or computer, she will lose them.</p><p></p><p>Next September she enters middle school and I am dreading it...in our urban/suburban affluent area, 12 is the new 18....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ellenr1, post: 53606, member: 2547"] Girls can be so mean, and I speak as the object of the Queen Bee's scorn when I was 10/11, and the mother of a soon to be 11 yr old Queen Bee. When I would see her behavior veering into Mean Girl-dom, I'd tell her that her friends will not put up with her attitude and she had been come back down to earth fast. I even asked one of her ladies-in-waiting if my easy child is bossy, and she looked down at the ground and didn't want to answer me. I spoke to my kid after that. Of course she denies it, but at least she knows she does have to answer to me, and she knows I'm watching from a distance. If she gets a reputation as a Mean Girl, she will feel the icy sting of isolation when people get sick of her attitude. She lost a friendship with a very sweet little girl a couple of years ago, and I believe that it was because she got too bossy and demanding. And she was terribly hurt. What I worry about is if she insults or hurts another vulnerable child. I've warned her that if she abuses her priveleges with the cell phone or computer, she will lose them. Next September she enters middle school and I am dreading it...in our urban/suburban affluent area, 12 is the new 18.... [/QUOTE]
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