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[quote=Anonymous]While on a cruise several years ago, we met a couple who were a lot of fun.  Our youngest daughter, now 12, got along well with their daughter.  We don't live too far apart, so we've become friends.  (They've stayed in our home and vice versa.)

Over time, we started to realize that their daughter is not a good friend to our daughter.  She says things that are not nice and is physical with our daughter.  It's all couched in play, but it goes beyond what we see as acceptable.

We've tried to raise this to the parents and they are tone-deaf to any criticism of their child.  It's become clear that the child gets whatever she wants, with very little in the way of limits.  For example, when both families were at a resort, the child asked for ice cream and got a large ice cream sundae.  She ate about 1/4 of it and the rest was thrown away.  At our home, she has eaten in areas where we do not eat and generally helped herself to whatever she wants.  Of course, much of it is later thrown away.

We've tried to bring up the subject and as I noted before, the parents seem tone deaf to any possibility that any of this is true.  If we raise something, they generally ask the daughter, she denies and they believe her.  That makes the situation even worse for our daughter afterwards.

We were at dinner with this family and one other this past weekend.  At the dinner table, the child was generally rude and was physical with our child, to the extent that the child knocked our child's glasses off her face.  We didn't see it, but teenagers who are part of the third family saw it and confirmed.

We don't want to lose the parents as friends, but this can't go on.  We must protect our child.  Anyone have any creative solutions to get through to them?[/quote]

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