Camp and mean girls

[Anonymous]

It is possible that bratty kid #2 actually likes your daughter, but couldn't figure out how to get out from the influence of bratty kid #1. Perhaps #2's mom thinks your child would be a good influence.

Once kid #1 is out of the picture, kid #2 may actually be kind of cool. My daughter's most recent best friend was formally a "kid #2". My daughter recognized that kid #2 was a lot nicer when not around kid #1. If, however, kid #2 is still not nice, then maybe you can switch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op - so I spoke with our kg teacher, without giving her any names of the girls, and she suggested not asking for a switch - bc it's a very organized camp - lots of activities - and the total group of kids is 12-14/group. She says that if I'm really concerned, I should talk to the other parent to figure out if we can encourage them to be friends..
Thoughts?

She is wrong. The camp currently has misleading information, which should be quietly corrected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kg girl has been in daisy's all year. She's liking it less and less as the year goes on and she's refusing to go to the last meeting - which is early next week. She says it's because if two specific girls who she doesn't like. I've volunteered several times and have noticed that the moms in charge have poor control of the group and that the 2 girls my DD identified can be loud, demanding, and bratty (for lack of a better word). One is the troop leader's daughter amd is the ring leader - a queen bee girl. At one meeting, they tore DD's homework folder - something about it being "Frozen" themed and frozen not being "cool" - it happened very quickly and I think the tearing was not so diberate, but the teasing was. It happened during the "free play" time, so the leader moms didn't know about it.

In any case, bratty kid #2 is signed up for camp with my DD and the mother told me recently that she called camp and requested that my DD and hers be placed in the same small group. I mentioned this to DD yesterday (when DD was telling me she wants to quit Daisies) and she asked if I could switch her out of the camp group.

No other kids from school will be at camp.

Do you think DD might develop a friendship with this girl, given that the other strong personalities will not be there?
Or should I honor her request and call camp and be a PITA mother?

Have her switched. Your daughter is not the jackass whisperer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kg girl has been in daisy's all year. She's liking it less and less as the year goes on and she's refusing to go to the last meeting - which is early next week. She says it's because if two specific girls who she doesn't like. I've volunteered several times and have noticed that the moms in charge have poor control of the group and that the 2 girls my DD identified can be loud, demanding, and bratty (for lack of a better word). One is the troop leader's daughter amd is the ring leader - a queen bee girl. At one meeting, they tore DD's homework folder - something about it being "Frozen" themed and frozen not being "cool" - it happened very quickly and I think the tearing was not so diberate, but the teasing was. It happened during the "free play" time, so the leader moms didn't know about it.

In any case, bratty kid #2 is signed up for camp with my DD and the mother told me recently that she called camp and requested that my DD and hers be placed in the same small group. I mentioned this to DD yesterday (when DD was telling me she wants to quit Daisies) and she asked if I could switch her out of the camp group.

No other kids from school will be at camp.

Do you think DD might develop a friendship with this girl, given that the other strong personalities will not be there?
Or should I honor her request and call camp and be a PITA mother?

Have her switched. Your daughter is not the jackass whisperer.

"The Jackass Whisperer" - awesome!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op - so I spoke with our kg teacher, without giving her any names of the girls, and she suggested not asking for a switch - bc it's a very organized camp - lots of activities - and the total group of kids is 12-14/group. She says that if I'm really concerned, I should talk to the other parent to figure out if we can encourage them to be friends..
Thoughts?

She is wrong. The camp currently has misleading information, which should be quietly corrected.

+1

The teacher could not be more wrong. Please do not inflict an entire summer of dealing with this girl on your daughter. Give her a break and talk to the school counselor about keeping them separate next school year. I would absolutely call the camp and get my child into a different group (with her close friend) and I would ask the parent of the friend to request the same thing. You're paying for this camp- it's your right to make these requests. Good luck!!

[Anonymous]

At some GS camps they specifically say "do not ask to be with a buddy" due to the "make new friends, etc etc" and all that. I would email the camp director and explain the situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is kg?

I'm going to go with "kindergarten" since Daisies were also mentioned.