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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you did the right thing.  I've had to have similar conversations with my daughter about not tolerating rotten behavior from friends and standing up for herself.  I don't want her to think that she is not worthy of friends who treat her with respect.  Right now she has a friend who always seems to be doing and saying mean things, but then backtracks and says she was just kidding if my daughter calls her out on it.  I've been encouraging her to seek out other kids who don't act that way.  (She's ten.)[/quote]

I agree.  My DD also is eight and dealing with a difficult friend.  They have know each other for three years, but this friend is often mean to my daughter.  Sometimes she is nice but other days she'll run away from her when my daughter tries to play with her or set up a game and tell my daughter she can't join the group.  I don't think she targets only my child; it sounds as though she excludes different kids on different days.   I told DD some friends are good friends and some friends are "sometimes friends".  You may have disagreements with good friends but they care about you and aren't mean to you on purpose.  You don't trust sometimes-friends with your secrets and if sometimes friends are being mean, you go play with someone else.  It also has been an opportunity to talk to her about not going along when she is *not* the one being excluded.[/quote]

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