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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stay out of it. It will only anger her and make her pickier. She may tell Alice that you are making Bryn be mean to Alice and are mean to her, too. [/quote]

This, she's already demonstrated that when she doesn't hear what she wants to hear, she will bad mouth the parent and child to other people.

I have a parent like this in my kid's class and, unfortunately, she (meaning the mom) has targeted my kid as a potential playmate to solve her kid's social issues. I have learned to be noncommittal, smile and nod when appropriate, but otherwise avoid. Separately I encourage my child's relationships with other children, let her know she is not obligated to play with this kid if she doesn't want to (but never to be unkind or exclude intentionally -- these are nuanced things for my kid to learn but it's helping to make her more emotionally intelligent in the long run).

Mostly I just hope they don't wind up in a class together last year. I've found that many social challenges get magically resolved by classroom shuffles from year to year, and it's already December. So from here we get to spring break, and then it's downhill to summer, and then next year is a fresh start that I'm sure will bring other challenges but this one will hopefully have passed.[/quote]

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