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[quote=Anonymous]I have a 9 year old and a 7 year old and I also used to be a teacher. Every kid can be rude sometimes, even the most seemingly sweet and innocent kids sometimes make rude comments.

But what's standing out to me is that the teacher took the time to e-mail you about it and mentioned several instances she's seen your daughter be rude. I would guess the teacher probably wouldn't have bothered e-mailing you if this was a situation where your DD was a typically sweet, kind child who just had a couple random, out of character bad moments. I think the teacher e-mailed you because this is a pattern of behavior your DD is exhibiting.

While it may be normal for kind kids to make rude comments every now and then, a pattern of rude behavior repeated over multiple days/multiple instances is more concerning and it sounds like that's what the teacher is seeing w/ your kid. Maybe your kid is going through a tough time, maybe you need to take more time to explicitly teach her how to behave/speak to others (modeling a conversation/interaction she might have with her classmates/teammates would be good), or maybe your DD does have ADHD or something that is causing this behavior. But I don't think the teacher would be mentioning it to you if it was just "normal" kid behavior.

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