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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Separate. Do not subject your child to monster girl.

My kid is well-behaved and easygoing. As pp said, he is viewed as good buddy material for everyone else's ill-behaved child. Teachers sit the troubled kid next to him hoping his good influence rubs off. That is all well and good except at some point I feel my child isn't being allowed to express that he would rather not be the assigned buddy in class or on playdates. Even I pushed him for too long into those situations. Now if he's OK with it we go with it, but I don't force him to endure someone who is disrespectful to him (regardless of their situation) if he would rather not. He'll have a whole life of being in these situations without his own parent setting them up regularly.[/quote]

My teachers did this, too.  I was quiet and studious and never disruptive in class, so they sat me next to the loud kids hoping I would sort of diffuse their rowdiness.  I would come home crying that my teacher hated me because she always made me sit with the bad kids.

While I agree that kids do need to learn to deal with bratty kids, one way that you deal with obnoxious people is to minimize your contact with them.  I wouldn't make my kids spend time with a truly mean child just to teach them a lesson about dealing with mean people.  Maybe just make it clear to your girls that they are not obligated to play with the mean girl at all, and you will back them up on this.  Because the mean girl, too, needs to learn that if she's nasty, people won't want to play with her.  And yeah, I wouldn't subject my kids to that every often.  [/quote]
This has been happening to my DS for the last couple of years and this coming school year, I will be putting a stop to it. I'm glad that my kid has the traits to be a good influence on others, but the other kids has become a negative influence on my kid. He's picked up a lot of behaviors and attitudes that we've has to undo and its created strife in our home. He needs exposure to less problematic kids. [/quote]

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