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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think many of you have the wrong (in my opinion!) idea of what's going on with tween development. It's an awkward time in every developmental way. Most of these tweens will become lovely teens, and nearly all will become lovely adults.[/quote]

That’s nice for them.  I think most of us ran into people like this in school and we don’t really care how these people turned out later. But we remember them clearly and vowed to never name our kids that same name due to the negative association.[/quote]

News flash: somewhere in your life, you too have hurt someone else. That’s just reality. None of us is perfect.[/quote]

DP.  This is most certainly true.  But some of us can actually say that we didn't do it intentionally or with malice.  Some of us actually managed to get through middle school (prime time for this kind of nonsense) without being mean and exclusionary on purpose.  [/quote]
 
And now you’re getting your revenge on kids even though you’re an adult.  Maybe you should have worked through some of this when it was actually developmentally appropriate.  Then you might not be such a bitter, resentful grown woman.[/quote]

What?  I said I was a DP.  Your accusations against me make no sense based on my one little post.  Revenge on kids? WTF.

Maybe it is you who needs to reflect on why you are attacking anonymous people on the internet based on...nothing?[/quote]

Please.  Your post is essentially agreeing with the “mean girl for life” branding for a 12 year old girl.  Because *you* were such a better person at 12, you feel entitled to passively encourage this ridiculous and mean spirited trope.  You’re one of many bitter women in this thread who are clearly happy with the idea of a tween girl suffering or being punished forever.[/quote]

You don't get to tell me that I mean something I don't.  Talk about a mean girl who didn't grow up. You are saying some really horrible things about me that I am telling you I didn't mean.  Maybe you need to look in the mirror before lashing out at a stranger.

I dispute that *everyone* has a mean girl phase in middle school and that being mean is a "normal" part of being a middle schooler.  That doesn't mean people don't change.[/quote]

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