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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you are all are saying you were perfect angels as middle school girls? There is a line between pranks and bullying but so many parents are just SO coddling to their kids anymore that they are destroying an self confidence and resiliency they might have. It was a sleepover and some makeup was put on a friend while sleeping. END OF STORY.  I would have totally laughed it off. My friends and I did this stuff all the time to each other. First one to fall asleep usually got shaving cream to hand and feather in the face. It didn't matter who it was. I was once placed outside in my sleeping bag. Can't believe I didn't wake up.  Real looking tarantulas, spiders, snakes.  Botched makeup and nail jobs. Didn't any of you have fun or laugh things off at tween sleepovers? Why is everything marked bullying now??? You crazy paranoid moms act like they beat the crap out of her and left her for dead. [/quote]

Shorter PP: It wouldn't have bothered me, so it shouldn't bother anybody.[/quote]

No, I think the point is to lighten up a bit. Stress from parents trickle down to kids. [/quote]

You know what is more stressful for kids?  Thinking their parent doesn't have their back.[/quote]

Having their back is one thing.  Handling situations for your children that they should really be handling themselves...is helicoptering.  And it sends the message to your kids that they aren't capable of sorting these things out for themselves and that they need their parents to do it for them.  Is that a good message to send?

That said, I'm not bashing the Op.  I just think that the 3am email was a bit over the top and maybe even somewhat punitive.  Realize that she sent this email out BEFORE she had even heard the girls' point of view, BEFORE the girls even had the opportunity to apologize to her daughter....[/quote]

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