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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. Cliques start for girls around 2nd grade and the mean girl thing starts by 4th-5th.

-mom of boys who sees it happen over and over.[/quote]

And the boys are welcoming of every outsider, right?  I hate "mean girl" nonsense.  ALL kids can be little jerks.  Boys too.  [/quote]

You have toddlers I suppose?

Boys do not do the mean girl thing.

They bully differently. It tends to occur around sports and not until closer to puberty.

Girls will close ranks and isolate other girls from a very young age, starting in elementary. It gets worse when there is the trifecta of mean girls, or when the moms are cliquey.

Ask any person with elementary kids, and they will say the same thing.  Girls start cliques much earlier than boys in elementary, and start the mean girl thing very early too. Boys start this kind of thing much later, and when they do (upper elementaty) it tends to be more classic, obvious bullying than the girls do.  Mean girl stuff is more nuanced, and becauseof this the queen bee and girl bullies can remain tye teachers' darling with adult after adults saying "I can't believe Larla would do such a thing."[/quote]

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