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[quote=Anonymous]Hi:

We had this situation but the opposite.  There is a girl with weak social skills that clings to my daughter.  Why my daughter?  I think because she’s nice and the other girls just give her the cold shoulder.  But through my daughter she has access to a group.

She and her parents are constantly asking us to do things. Like we will have a playdate on Friday and they will start hassling us about Saturday and then when we say no Sunday.  It’s exhausting.  It’s also caused problems when some girls pull away from my daughter because this girl is always tagging after her and so these girls go elsewhere.  She still has friends but probably fewer than she might otherwise.  This is 5th grade.

When this girls parents invited themselves over again for Halloween I was inclined to say yes just because it’s hard to be alone on my special day, but when I told my daughter she was in tears.  The friend she was going with didn’t want to go with this girl (for the same reasons as everyone else) and my daughter didn’t want to jeopardize the new friendship.  My daughter likes hanging out with this girl sometimes, but just sometimes - she doesn’t want to be best friends and this kid smothers her.  So at some point I just needed to stick up for my kid.

Kids are absolutely mean sometimes, as are adults.  But it’s very hard to deliver the message, “more people would want to be your kid’s friend if they were just easier to deal with.”   So you say nothing and they feel excluded.[/quote]

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