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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From what I have seen with my 2 older kids and their peers: mean kid does not necessarily indicate mean parents. However, the parents of the mean kids appear to have NO clue about their kids’ mean behavior. Who is going to tell them, after all? Mean kids are often able to fly under the radar of teachers and other adults.

There is a boy in my son’s grade (freshman) who is absolutely notorious for being a mean kid. All the kids, parents etc know this and have for years- and have overheard people gossip about it. The parents seem fairly nice, and both siblings are very nice (one of the sibs is in another of my kids’ grades). The parents don’t seem to have any clue about how their oldest behaves…the mom recently posted something on FB on the boy’s birthday like “happy bday Larlo. We are so proud of you- not just of your accomplishments but of your kind, beautiful and generous soul” LOL.

We know a girl who is similar. She openly insults other girls (usually about appearance) at random and has for years. Most of the girls (middle school) avoid her. Her mom can’t figure out why she has trouble making friends, worries she is being left out etc. Again…who is going to tell her? Nobody. The parents both seem nice.

I think the parents of mean kids are sometimes nice themselves- but clueless.

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I’ve seen this, too.  Often the nicest parents are the most clueless - it’s like they can’t fathom how mean people can be.  I wonder if part of it is that the super nice parents have a hard time with any negative emotion generally, so their kids don’t have any space to discuss less-than-happy feelings.  It’s great to be positive, but when it comes at the expense of reality and accepting the spectrum of emotions, it’s too much.[/quote]

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