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[quote=Anonymous]Our daughter (6) has a neighbor friend (7). They play together all the time, but it's pretty one-sided, in the sense that our daughter gets super excited like HEY HEY LET'S PLAY! and the friend is like "oh hey."

And the older friend is pretty bossy and mean, yelling at our daughter like STOP DOING THAT or YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT. Sometimes it is technically correct, but it's not a nice way to say it. Or grabbing things out of our daughter's hands. Or being a cry-bully victim. E.g., their kid will be rough, but when someone is rough back, she goes crying to her parents.

The other parents don't have any real consequences and let their kid roam freely, mostly unsupervised.

We're trying to teach our daughter to be assertive, to recognize when "friends" aren't acting like friends, and to walk away to find other stuff to do. But it's hard because there's not a lot of other kids to play with.

Not sure how to approach it. We're also friendly with their family, so not looking to cause a huge rift, but their kid is pretty mean and narcissistic. I don't think it's realistic to say "stop playing together," and I don't want to helicopter parent and start correcting their kid's bad behavior, but what do we do? Do we just keep teaching our daughter and let her figure it out in due time?

Sometimes I'll be outside, the other mom will be outside, and their kid will yell at my daughter. What do I do? Correct their kid? Ask the other parent to do something? Tell my daughter to stop playing?[/quote]

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