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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s no mention on what the help consisted of. If the other kid spends weeks working on her essay (at least according to your posts) and your child ‘helps’ by bouncing off some ideas and doing minor edits, then there’s no need for additional thanks and acknowledgements. From the other child’s point of view, if the help was coming from her own parents, it would be odd to bring that up multiple times. In fact it would be more appropriate to not mention it at all since the contribution is very small.

You don’t know the full extent of how work was divided in the project and the actual impact your child help was in getting the award. It seems to me you could be overestimating it, and you only go by your possibly biased and jealous opinion if your DD.

I think the lesson you need to teach your child is that sometimes she needs to help people without expecting anything in return and just be happy for her friends success. It seems that being selfish may be the issue why she can’t make friends.[/quote]

This post is rude and useless. Goodbye. [/quote]

It is actually a pretty thoughtful and helpful post...until the last sentence.  PP really undercut her point at the very end.[/quote]

The family friend of many years is asking the daughter of the op for help with a project. The friend is ignored several times until she is reluctantly ‘assisted’ whatever that means. After the friend wins an award the daughter is upset she is not thanked publicly enough and her help acknowledged, essentially asking to undermine and understate the contribution and merit of the actual author of the essay. I’m sorry but to me this is a terrible personality trait of selfishness, being self centered and self absorbed and overall being an truly awful friend. By middle school these kids should at least know how to navigate these social interactions, and show some empathy. I don’t think age is a valid excuse. I maintain that this kind of behavior would make it difficult if not impossible to form genuine relations and strong friendship bonds with her peers.

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