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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter's friend (we'll call her M) does not really have any friends outside their small friend group, whereas my daughter and the other girls in the group have other friends with whom they will sometimes hang out with. They are in 8th grade. Whenever my daughter does something without M, M goes pretty crazy and tells my daughter that if she were a real friend she'd invite M, how she should cancel the plans with the other girls and hang out with her instead, etc. My daughter woke up to a string of 8 text messages this morning telling her   what a terrible friend she is, how she doesn't care about M, etc. (similar things have happened in the past).

I don't know what to tell her. Drop the friend? [/quote]

Why can’t she ever invite her to go join the group and why does she keep their friendship separate? Many friends introduce their friends to each other and they become friends as well and it becomes a larger group.[/quote]
[b]The other girls do not like M or want to spend time in her company.[/b][/quote]

This seems to me a red flag that there might be some mean girl behavior going on.  Perhaps M is being targeted and isolated/shunned by other girls, which would explain why she is being so clingy with your daughter.

Again, as I mentioned in my post above, don't assume you have all of the information.  [/quote]

Just what I was thinking.  Do you know M well?  Is it really her?[/quote]
I am going to guess that your are the parent of a bully and you are a clueless parent about it. I have seen moms like you, it is always the other kid, and not yours, the other kids should always make a ton of effort for your kid and your kid is an angel? Right? I know moms like you, you are the last to know that your kid is not bullied, she is the bully. You are so deep in deflective thinking you can't see what is right in front of you. Or you might have young kids and no clue about teen dynamics today. Either way, you are clueless.[/quote]

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