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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 294570" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>This has been the social drama of my easy child daughter's elementary years. </p><p> </p><p>In pre-K and K, they were best friends. </p><p> </p><p>In 1st The Girl dumped easy child totally for another girl and easy child was devestated. easy child is miserable half the year and finally makes new friends. </p><p> </p><p>In 2nd The Girl is split from the other girl and is back in easy child's class. She decides she wants easy child back for her exclusive friend now and clings, cries, and other assorted manipulative moves. When easy child made it clear she'd play with her some but was also going to play with the other friends she'd made (including one very good one) The Girl moves in and starts to cut out easy child's friends to get *them* as exclusive friends. She also starts taking cheap shots at easy child such as "Your hairstyle doesn't match your face" and "Your skin is too white, you need a tan" (my daughter has beautiful porcelain skin).</p><p> </p><p>In 3rd The Girl continues working on getting easy child's best friend away from her. Lots of frustration and tears and I had to have the teacher intervene in the cheap shot department.</p><p> </p><p>In 4th The Girl finally totally succeeds in taking easy child's best friend away from her. Not only that, she never passed up a chance to rub it in her face.</p><p> </p><p>In 5th, I'm so thrilled we don't have to deal with this anymore because I'm HOMESCHOOLING. Next week easy child is going to an annual church camp with the former best friend who was wedged away from her so I'm hoping there is no resurgence of hurtful feelings. If so, it will be the end of the road for church camp because I'm done dealing with these chicks.</p><p> </p><p>I seriously feel for you, TM. The best advice that I can give you is to arm Duckie with phrases she can tell herself over and over when she feels her self-esteem challenged. The other thing that helped a lot was role playing so when cheap shots and inappropriate behavior came her way, she was prepared to deal with it. easy child did much better when she had a comment on the tip of her tongue and had practiced it with the right attitude. The Girl always backed down when she realized easy child wasn't going to take her baloney.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 294570, member: 701"] This has been the social drama of my easy child daughter's elementary years. In pre-K and K, they were best friends. In 1st The Girl dumped easy child totally for another girl and easy child was devestated. easy child is miserable half the year and finally makes new friends. In 2nd The Girl is split from the other girl and is back in easy child's class. She decides she wants easy child back for her exclusive friend now and clings, cries, and other assorted manipulative moves. When easy child made it clear she'd play with her some but was also going to play with the other friends she'd made (including one very good one) The Girl moves in and starts to cut out easy child's friends to get *them* as exclusive friends. She also starts taking cheap shots at easy child such as "Your hairstyle doesn't match your face" and "Your skin is too white, you need a tan" (my daughter has beautiful porcelain skin). In 3rd The Girl continues working on getting easy child's best friend away from her. Lots of frustration and tears and I had to have the teacher intervene in the cheap shot department. In 4th The Girl finally totally succeeds in taking easy child's best friend away from her. Not only that, she never passed up a chance to rub it in her face. In 5th, I'm so thrilled we don't have to deal with this anymore because I'm HOMESCHOOLING. Next week easy child is going to an annual church camp with the former best friend who was wedged away from her so I'm hoping there is no resurgence of hurtful feelings. If so, it will be the end of the road for church camp because I'm done dealing with these chicks. I seriously feel for you, TM. The best advice that I can give you is to arm Duckie with phrases she can tell herself over and over when she feels her self-esteem challenged. The other thing that helped a lot was role playing so when cheap shots and inappropriate behavior came her way, she was prepared to deal with it. easy child did much better when she had a comment on the tip of her tongue and had practiced it with the right attitude. The Girl always backed down when she realized easy child wasn't going to take her baloney. [/QUOTE]
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