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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you violated an unwritten rule between parents.  You can call your own kid an ***hole.  But you can't call someone else's kid an ***hole.  It doesn't matter that they don't know each other.

Who wants to hear this, anyway?  All of our kids will be ***holes one day.  Your friend sounds kind and patient.  [/quote]
Oh please. No such rule ever existed. Clearly, so many of you think your kids can do no wrong.[/quote]
I'm the PP you quoted.  I'm a bad-ass ex-teacher not afraid to talk to kids when they do wrong.  I just don't whine about them behind their parents' backs.  Life is too short for that.  The DMV is full of adults who would rather judge than roll up their sleeves.  How about you?  [/quote]
I've successfully advocated for my child and have gone to the school when other kids were being a-holes to my child. And, yes, that's what they were (mocking his disability, mocking his shoes, throwing things at him). Should I have gone directly to the parents to pick a fight? [/quote]
You tell me.  I'm a SN parent myself.  Why do you think I wrote that all our kids will be ***holes one day?  It's because I've seen it too.  But when you went to the school to advocate for your child, did you call the kids names?  Or did you calm yourself down - like you and I, and every SN parent have done a thousand times - and describe the kids' aggression so the your child could be protected and the other kids could course-correct?

Calling someone names is not the same as calling out bad behavior in a productive way.  [/quote]

No I didn't call them a-holes at school and neither did OP. But I sure as hell did at home and to my friends which is totally fine. They were.[/quote]

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