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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The description of your DD as a popular girl who is frustrated with expectations that she is friends with everyone is sending up red flags for me. Like Gretchen Wieners cluelessly saying I can’t help it that I’m popular. [/quote]

OP here, and I will not lie, I also see those comment is a slightly different light.

I am inclined not to respond to the email, so I perhaps the best course is to talk to my daughter more generally about the issue?

FWIW, I am not ruling out the possibility this is true. [b]But it’s my kid, so it’s really tough to think it could be true.[/b] I feel like I have always emphasized kindness and not gossiping. [/quote]

Push past this.  I see this blind spot in so many parents.  [/quote]

Yep.

As a rule, with raising my kids from the very beginning, I went in with I'll "never say never" about something my kid would or would not do (or act), etc.  I saw far too many people that had no idea who or what their kids were really like outside the home.

I also knew (from watching siblings and friends with older kids) that they change.  I never wanted to be eating crow after my kid did something I profusely told people he 'would never do'.

Anything is possible. And, OP, she's young.  If she is like this--wouldn't you much rather know and turn it around???  IF my kid were a bully or a jerk or a gossiper or a drinker or a shoplifter--my god--I'd want to know.[/quote]

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