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[quote=Anonymous]My 6 year old is a little dork.  He's my precious little dork, but I understand why the little older kids on our street are annoyed with him, as he's younger and his interests are WAY different than theirs.  But, where the boys say "hey there" but don't ask him to play football, one 7 year old girl is just plain mean.  She makes fun of him because he can't catch a football, or because he still needs training wheels.  When he walks across the street, she'll say with disdain "what do you want Tommy?" or "don't stand in my yard" or "just go away".  I want him to feel comfortable walking over and saying hi and being kind, even if they don't share interests, but that little girl is starting to take the steam out of him and I watch him deflate anytime he sees them outside now.  As we rode bikes the other day, she started in about the training wheels, so I just told my son to ignore bullies and that some kids are just mean.  I said it fairly loud and she was taken aback since I'm always kind to her when I chat with her mom.

Yesterday, we came home and my son, seeing the kids, wanted to dart in to the house.  I saw grandma (of another set of kids) out, so decided we'd walk over and say hello to her, and give my son a chance to stand up for himself if necessary.  All the kids were overly nice to my son, and I'm pretty sure it was 1) because they were all afraid I was going to tell grandma what little asses they are or 2) the little girl shared my comment with her mom, and her mom probably told her to be nice.  (Her mom and I are friendly, occasionally messaging or chatting in the street, but not social.)

My question:  would it be weird of me to acknowledge to her mom my appreciation for the kids being friendly yesterday?  I'm not fully certain she knows they've not been.  But, for whatever reason caused it, I'd like to encourage it to continue by giving the kids some positive feedback for being nice.  On the other hand, if the mother doesn't know, would my appreciation seem like I was taking a dig at past bad behavior?[/quote]

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