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[quote=Anonymous]I've given this a lot of thought, and I'm still a little stuck.  I want my daughter to be the kind of kid who stands up for other kids and is kind to those who don't have her advantages.  In a lot of cases, she is.  For kids with LGBT parents, or visible disabilities.

With that said, my individual kid is someone who will take a lot of abuse before walking away.  So I'm constantly telling her "If someone is unkind to you, you don't have to be their friend."

When she was younger, this was a hard message to square with "Be kind to those kids who have a harder time controlling their bodies than you do" and it's not clear to me that her empathy for some kids carried over to all of them.

So, basically, it's complicated.  I don't think the parents whose kids are being excluded are being oversensitive, but I also don't necessarily think the parents whose kids are doing the excluding are history's greatest monsters.  Especially for younger kids, it can be really hard to figure out which kids are bullies, and which just have a hard time controlling their impulses.  At times (not always but at times), those behaviors look similar.  [/quote]

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