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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've noticed the opposite...the mean girls always have really nice, sociable moms.

I'm always so surprised how nice the families of the mean girls are.  [/quote]

I wouldn’t say that the parents aren’t social.  It’s more that they gossip a lot, form cliques, and kind of deliberately exclude other people and encourage their daughters to do the same.  
For example, one little girl in my daughter’s class got lice.  One of these moms found out and told everyone about it along with kind of an insinuation that the family was dirty.  Then, suddenly, their 8 year old daughters just weren’t really friends with this little girl anymore.  They stopped inviting her to things or attending anything she had planned.  Didn’t really play with her at recess, etc.

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I push back on this with facts.  "Lice pose no health risks to anyone.  They do not carry disease.  She most likely caught it AT school from someone else, so it didn't start with her." and then good god invite the poor child over.

If I heard another mom talking trash about a kid with lice, I would be the one cutting her out.[/quote]

Yes.  Of course that’s what happened.  I’m not trying to be friends with these people.  
But, of course, when my daughter was still friends with the girl with lice, these girls told the other kids not to talk to them, made fun of them, etc.  Some of the girls chose to still play with my daughter and her friends.  Eventually, everyone moved on to something else and someone else these girls were picking on.

It’s kind of amazing that a few girls can create this whole social hierarchy.  It kind of shifts, but there is definitely an “in” group where there wasn’t one before.

Also, that I think of it, you have to kind of have a mean girl mom to pull it off.  It only works if you have the right hair, clothes, and attitude.  Otherwise, you’re just a bully.  [/quote]

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