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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know OP is gone, but the PP above is correct--don't call the school. If it didn't happen on school grounds, they will not get involved.

Changing subjects: All those crying "wimp" should do a little self-reflection. I think a previous poster nailed it: those who would "laugh it off as a joke" are the wimps. They're afraid of rocking the boat--even when it involves their own child--because it's uncomfortable to confront mean girls and their parents. It might make your child unpopular (which is a fate worse than death to some parents), and it certainly will make you unpopular among the other moms. They might whisper and back away when they see you, as so many posters have affirmed in this thread. So just cower and sweep it under the rug and let your child suffer.

I wonder if the parents who think this was harmless would have gone ahead with the sleepover if they knew their daughter would have makeup globbed all over her face by her "friends" while she slept and that the DD would react so strongly. If not, then you have to take action when it does happen.

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I think anyone who sees the only possible explanation for the girls behavior is that they are mean girls only has one child. If you had more than one child you would realize that your kids do this to each other all the time. That Kid 1 does something that he thinks i funny but that upsets kid 2. Parents realize that this doesn't mean that their child is a mean bully, they realize that the child didn't think it through, took it too far or just bugged kid 2 at the wrong time (overtired, in the middle of something). And they would also realize that their child crying for hours because kid 1 did something that upset them would be an overreaction. I can't imagine that if one of these 'mean girls was your daughter and she came home and said that they were putting make up on themselves and thought it would also be funny to put make up on Sarah and had no idea she would get upset that you would refuse to even consider this explanation and insist that nope - your daughter is a mean girl and a bully and that her intent was malicious. Any parent who assumes that all their child's actions that upset another are malicious and cruel are going to have pretty unhappy messed up kids.

And I think these same people really have no sense of humor which is why they can't entertain the possibility that putting make-up on someone who was sleeping could have been intended as a joke. they obviously have never done something they thought was funny to their spouse only to have their spouse be annoyed because the timing was off. If they had they would know that if their spouse reacted to that by insisting that they are a bully, cruel and had malicious intentions would be a total overreaction.

Not everyone that plays a prank that doesn't turn out or that upsets someone is the spawn of Satan.[/quote]

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