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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is still in elementary school, but I can already tell you that there is a group of "mean girls" who constantly text each other every day.  They text mean things about lots of girls in the grade and they text a lot.  I predict that these girls will be into drugs, etc.  Clearly from this young age they have 1) lots of free time to text b/c they aren't kept busy enough 2) they have a desire to act nasty in a group (follower mentality that endures many to try drugs) and 3) parents who don't monitor what they're doing.
I try to parent my DD in exactly the opposite way.  No guarantee it will work, but I can already see the seeds of negative teen behaviors with some of these young kids.[/quote]

Add to this that the mean girls are often actually insecure due to troubled home lives.  This underscores the need to be on top of your kids mental health and friendships.  A Washington post article last week about Heroin scared the bleep out of me because this kid was an very competitive swimmer (i.e. very busy) in Bethesda.  He does however explain that he always felt lonely and wanted to fit in.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-suburban-heroin-addict-describes-his-brush-with-death-and-his-hopes-for-a-better-life/2014/02/07/bd769b8e-8ea1-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html[/quote]

I totally believe this.  I can already see this with elementary children acting out, because they are overbooked and desperately want to control something (anything) in their lives.  It is scary to see.

There has to be a happy medium between finding your talents and overbooking them Tiger mom style.

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