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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s crazy to me how so many of you are modeling to your kids that one can never make a mistake, make amends, and be forgiven.

It is perfectly reasonable for the bullied girl to not be friends with this girl anymore (and it is healthy for kids to learn that when you destroy trust in a relationship you can’t get it back), but to forever brand a middle school girl who has seen the error of her ways and is trying to do the right thing with the scarlet “MG” is not right.  [/quote]

OP's DD certainly has no obligation to be friends with anyone but the idea that the old friend is genuinely sorry is not out of the realm of possibility. OP's DD seems to be rather strict in who she rejects. This situation arose out of her choice originally that she didn't want to be friends with the "popular" girl, and the other girls choosing sides and taking it too far. If the popular girl and the apologizing old friend are people she doesn't want to associate with, so be it but it shouldn't be cast as an act of moral superiority. Teenage girls make lots of mistakes, and many evolve to be better than those mistakes.[/quote]

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