| Encourage her to become the pool manager next summer. |
It's so weird, like those name posts where they don't state the kids name. It's creating secrecy about something not important. |
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Definitely support her in being more assertive about this. The truth is that these things can happen. I think the most important thing to do is speak up for yourself in the face of these things.
And remind her that she is beautiful! |
| Ignore them. No one can make her feel teased. Only she can. |
Have either of you two geniuses realized OP might not want to say specifics because the harassers or their families/friends that they may have talked to about this might be on DCUM? I wouldn't share details if this were happening to my kid, either. |
| If that happened to my DC I would work to get the other lifeguards fired. That would set a powerful example for them and your DC. |
+1 + who cares why? OP obviously don't want to say; isn't that obvious? Do you have to bring it up again and again like some kind of dolt? |
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Lord, OP. I had this happen to me at an office job as an adult. Frankly, I would love nothing more to post that woman's name, because she was such a loser.
Not everyone is going to like the way you look. I am not by any mean saying the boys are not cads, because they are; and their parents should have taught them to be gentlemen, but they did not. I would not expect anyone around here to come to anyone's defense, frankly. If she wants, your daughter could step and say "I heard you and I don't appreciate that. If it continues, I will file a report." Jerks. |
PP here. BS. They should not be trying to embarrass the girl like this. |
Why are so many of you calling this teasing? IT IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT. It's not high school. OP, if your daughter is okay with it, YOU go into the pool manager's office with her and tell the manager what is going on. Get these other kids fired. No second chances for this kind of abuse. |
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I would get her to put something in writing, possibly get statements from witnesses and go to the pool management expecting them to take action against the lifeguards who are doing this.
Simultaneously, encourage her to love her body the way it is, and that she doesn't have to crap from anybody. If it was at school, I'd tell her to say something directly to them. Given it is at her workplace, it's better for the management to deal with them. |
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This is a bit of an aside, but this makes me concerned about the safety of swimmers in the pool. If the boys are busy harassing her and she is feeling upset, then it's possible that all three of them are not paying as much attention to the pool as they should.
She should file a complaint. It could be seriously jeopardizing her ability to do her job. |
If it were high school, it would also be sexual harassment. |
sexual? |
| How could harassing comments about the attractiveness or unattractiveness of somebody's body not be sexual harassment? |