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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, they are meaner, and yes the internet has provided them with an avenue in which to be meaner, faster and easier, and best of all ANONYMOUSLY. 
For all the efforts of our society to encourage and enrich kids to be compassionate, kind, caring citizens, to teach that CHARACTER COUNTS, all that completely falls to the way-side by the time they are in high school. And parents just let their kids be assholes (racist assholes even) with no consequences, turning a blind eye to their bad behavior or just condoning it.

Currently, I give up. I just hate other people's kids. It's really hard to raise a positive, resilient, self-assured, kind, compassionate kid when all their peers are raised to be irresponsible, disrespectful, delinquent assholes.[/quote]

Agreed.  It is HARD to raise a positive, resilient, kind, compassionate kids when they are encountered with assholes all day long.  My DD is so sensitive and take everything to heart and this mean girl behavior is really getting to her.  I didn't experience this as a kid and I'm worried for her.  She is only in fourth grade and this year has already been rough with 2 mean girl incidents.  I'm trying to teach her to just find good people to hang out with and she has a couple, but what if they change?  People change.  Its hard to find nice girls with parents who have good values.

Are there resources to help girls understand and deal with this type of mean girl behavior?  I feel like middle school will be really rough if this is how its going to be.  Ugghhh... I'll need therapy to get through it!  :-)
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