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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She is entering the tween years.

My mom thought my best friend when I was 10-11 was a bad influence. This was when we started experimenting with make up, had crushes on boys, etc. I was actually the bad influence, not my friend but my mom always blamed my friend for my changing behavior. We ended up moving when I was 12.[/quote]

If I didn’t now know that the child has had behavioral problems for some time (as stated by her parents) I certainly wouldn’t jump to another kid being the source of my kid’s newly developed behavioral issues. But I know the child has had issues and now my DD is acting very similarly. So it came from somewhere. [/quote]

Did they say what the behavioral issues are? I think it would be unusual for people to mean being sassy when the reference behavioral issues. I used to be more open about my child’a diagnosis and issues before I realized that people assume anything negative was coming my child, when really her behavioral issues are more things like getting up too often and interrupting the teacher. She’s definitely not the one teaching the bad words or making fun of people. Anyway just throwing that out there; most kids, like all people, have both strengths and weaknesses.[/quote]

We have now watched her be extremely sassy and disrespectful with her parents. There are no limits. She doesn’t care if other people are around. It’s kind of hard not to acknowledge behavior when it’s happening publicly. We had just not spent any time around them in the beginning, so were completely unaware. [/quote]

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