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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, this is an extremely helpful post, thank you. We are at a small private, and I was thinking this is the way to go because of small class sizes. However, and can see how it will become more difficult to navigate as these dynamics deepen.

Thanks to the other good advice I got from this post (ignore the trolls!), I kept her home this morning to calm down, take a break, think about coping methods, and how she could have contributed. But wouldn't let her stay home the whole day. I took her in at lunch, and observed. , as we were walking towards the library, the girls from her class ran away from us. When we passed them, they were all giggling and looking at the ground. No greetings or smiles.

So it looks like DD isn't exaggerating about this one. The social rejection by all the girls in the class is just too much. I shared my observations with the teacher and guidance counselor and asked them how they can intervene, both the the other girls, and with DD. Maybe I need to find another social skills group?[/quote]

pp here- I found that my son doesn’t exaggerate the events either. What he doesn’t understand is what led up to the issues. His therapist said something that I have tried to communicate to him— “everyone is figuring this out. All of the kids are learning what friendship means.” It can help with the hurt if your DD realizes that everyone is struggling - and while she has to take responsibility for her own actions- the other girls aren’t doing this only in response to her, but also because they may be trying to fit in and seek attention with each other. 
It’s an important protective exercise in metacognition that will help later- sometimes people’s crummy behavior toward us isn’t 100% about us.[/quote]

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