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Reply to "my friend and her daughter always puts down my daugher"
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[quote=Anonymous]Your writing style makes it very hard to understand what you are saying. Essentially, you need to stand up to passive-aggressive comments like that by looking at the other mother straight in the eye, and saying calmly: "what do you mean by that?". Then let her fumble around trying to explain herself. Your daughter, at 11, can speak up for herself too and say:" I don't like it when you constantly make me look old / talk about my age like that. I consider this my school too. Respect that." If her daughter has annoying comments, you can also intervene immediately and say: "please stop continually bringing up DD's age - it's getting annoying." Don't forget that 7 year olds can have VERY annoying traits and still grow up to be lovely people. My DC's best friend is 7 and drives me crazy sometimes! I call her out on it :-) I don't know why people can't bring themselves to be direct. It would prevent so much heartache and resentment.[/quote]
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