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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your daughter is doing something you don't want her to do, then address it with your daughter.  Blaming your child's misbehavior on someone else, just teaches her not to be responsible for her own manners.[/quote]

To be clear, my child isn’t misbehaving. We just don’t agree with the other family’s values. There are some other red flags we notice with the other girl as well. We want our DD to branch out and focus on other friends with values we agree with.[/quote]

My daughter had a friend like this...it came from the mom. The friendship was toxic and always trying to match or "one up" my daughter. Constant bragging about how much clothes cost..I'm pretty sure parents will buy that girl a very pricey car to drive when she is able.  Grandparents didn't like the friend either. We learned quickly, criticizing the friendship only drew her closer to toxic friend. So we just held our tongue until the friendship ran its course and our daughter finally figured out the friendship was not a friendship. That friend then of course turned on my daughter and bad mouthed her to everyone (mom even criticized us as parents to the friends).  A year later, this girl doesn't have many friends.

My advice...let your daughter know you are there if she needs advice but you limiting the time will only prolong the friendship.[/quote]

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