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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my daughter's friends keep saying this whenever my daughter doesn't want to play what he wants to play right then.  I know it used to hurt her a lot when she was younger, and at that time, we would take a break and the boy's parent would talk to him and eventually he would apologize. Now she is six, she doesn't cry about it, so I'm not sure if she's just hiding the hurt or she has learned to brush it off. But since she doesn't appear visibly upset, we have just been ignoring it. This makes him get more riled up and keep saying it over and over. It doesn't feel right. Any suggestions? When they do both want to play the same thing, they play well together and she does want to keep doing play dates with him. [/quote]

I'd give her a polite but firm response, rather than just ignoring it.  "That's not a nice thing to say.  You can be a friend even if you don't want to play the same things all the time."

Your daughter is old enough that you don't need to intervene.  Give her the tools to deal with it, and be there for her to talk about it, but don't feel like you have to intervene if she's not acting upset.  It's not sending the message that the kid's behavior is okay; it's sending the message that you think she is capable of managing the situation herself.  [/quote]

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