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[quote=Anonymous]The group chats were killer for my kid, and definitely used to bully him—he'd get invited into one, they'd harangue him relentlessly about not being cool enough, nice enough, rich enough, athletic enough, skinny enough (these are boys!)... and then, it turns out, the most devastatingly effective way to bully (my DS at least) is to boot him off the GC whenever he says anything.

He tried SO HARD all year to get onto the chats, to participate, to be cool, to be friendly, to be funny and they spotted his eagerness from a mile away and by the end, literally anytime he would say ANYTHING, one of the bullies would boot him from the chat and he'd spend the next week begging to be let back in.

We tried to explain the game to him, and the fact is he has perfectly normal (for a 12yo) GC with sports team friends, but it was the "popular" kids chat at school he couldn't figure out. And they knew it and loved every second of it.

Finally, he just gave up, and honestly, everything has been so much better. He's going to a new school next year, and hopefully he'll find some new friends to GC with.

TLDR, I always thought the chats would be the danger, but it turned out that not being allowed to chat was the real painful part.[/quote]

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