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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, so the club voting thing is not great, but I don't think OP's kid is a mean girl.  I think she just doesn't connect with this particular kid.  Presumably there are dozens of other kids that the other kid could play with, but she wants to be your daughter's friend for some reason.  She's like those kids hanging around the fringes of the popular group in high school, trying to fit in, while ignoring the 200 other kids who might want to hang out.

Honestly, I don't want to hang out with just anyone.  I have preferences when it comes to my friends.  If I don't connect with you, I don't see the point in forcing it.

Now if every girl in the class (or soccer team or girl scout troop) was hanging and excluding her, there's a problem.  But I don't see why we should force kids to be friends when they don't want to.  [/quote]

I agree. And all this also makes me think about how the "be nice to everyone/be friends with everyone" affects girls later when they start getting unwanted attention from boys. We all have liked people who haven't reciprocated our feelings of friendship or romance, and vice versa. It hurts. But it's important for kids to learn how to deal with it maturely and kindly from both sides.[/quote]
+1 to both of these comments[/quote]

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