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[quote=Anonymous]My 5th grader has begun texting friends from her class on our shared family ipad. I read all the texts.  There are 2 girls from her class that do nothing but stir up drama. Constantly. It's really upsetting my daughter and causing issues at home and school. For example, at school the girls are sitting at lunch and one is dipping her fries in mayo. My daughter says, jokingly, "eww, gross". 
That afternoon, drama girl A texts in a group chat "Larla, we need to talk RIGHT NOW. what you said today was so RUDE. It made me cry! Why did you have to do that? I am sooooo upset!" And Drama girl B (pot stirrer) will say "OMG Larla, not cool". 
These girls have their own iPhones to text whenever. My daughter does not have her own device and I only allow her to use the iPad 1-2 times a day for 15 or so minutes to text when she has downtime. She is rarely texting in real time. For example today she had after school activities and then we ate out. weren't home all afternoon and come home to all these dramatic texts.

So then my daughter says sorry it's no big deal, I am sure I eat stuff you think is gross, didn't mean to hurt your feelings, etc., and is worried about the fighting and drama awaiting her at school the next day. Teacher is involved in school drama but not texting stuff.

I can tell my DD no more texting but then she's worried about what's being said without her. Ugh. This is too much. I hate girl drama. My daughter is not causing the texting drama whatsoever. We talk about how tone can't be understood over texting, how to word things nicely. I'm trying to teach her to communicate nicely but it's hard when everyone else isn't.

I can tell by these girls postings that their clueless parents are not reading their kids texts. I can't tell them to read them, can I? It's getting out of hand IMO. I am not friends with the girls parents. This is 5th grade, elementary school by the way.[/quote]

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