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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You've got an axe to grind, looking for behavior you can categorize as mean. I won't further engage.. [/quote]

The behavior isn't mean. It isn't kind. It's indifference.[/quote]

:roll: indifference is purposeful. And there you go again. [/quote]

Purposeful for the person with the other priorities yes. Not purposeful for the child who has no friends whom we are supposed to be talking about helping.  You seem to have no suggestions for OP so I'm not sure why you are even responding. Maybe you could be helpful by explaining what would make your indifferent child care more since a lone child at lunch still leaves your child indifferent? What would make your daughter care enough to help?

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First, I think most can agree that inaction is an action. But these are lessons that adults struggle with and can't engage appropriately in today's world. How many adults take time to interact with an awkward work peer or mom at an event where the mother is obviously the outsider?

Again, while I agree that inaction is actually doing something, I think it is a lot to ask even the very, very mature and self assured 8th grader to act in this manner. I think sometimes we like to believe that our children are more mature than they are and that they have more social awareness than they do, often forgetting that sometimes they are simple trying to keep afloat and that reaching out to help someone else might mean that they sink as well. [/quote]

So basically in your world kids are capable of bullying but not of being empathetic and helping? Only a very mature and self assured 8th grader can act like those kids in Wonder who befriended Auggie? Funny how that was a middle school and yet 2 kids came over to him that didn't seem super mature. But that would never happen in your world. Kids in your world have other work to do that keeps them from helping others, right? Since adults can be jerks we also can't expect our 8th graders to act empathetic? Did I get all that right?[/quote]

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