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[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]
Huh?  I'm putting in the hard work as a parent to raise kind and good human beings. And I have a FT job on top of that.  Why would I be expected to do the work of helping some random mean girl in my kid's class be better?  If someone has been teasing/taunting my DD all year, I just might vent to a friend about that.  Normal human behavior.  [/quote]
I just think that venting is fine, but kind and good human beings don't cross the line into name-calling.  And refraining from name-calling isn't the same as thinking your kids can do no wrong.  [/quote]

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