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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are 11 and 14.  [b]The 14 yr old got a smart phone when she started  high school,, and as she put it "Even the boy who wears the same sweatpants every day and has no friends because he only makes moose noises has a phone." [/b]

The reality is, kids make their plans with each other via phone.  Teachers expect kids to have cell phones.  So she has one, and there are a lot of rules attached.

She does not realize this, but she is VERY busy for a reason. She has minimal time to sit around with her head in a screen.  The 11 yr old is still seeing almost no screens. [/quote]

Wow. I hope you immediately changed the subject from her getting a from to how she can practice being a more compassionate human being. I would feel like I had failed as a parent if my children said something like that.[/quote] 
Thank you! This was my reaction as well. I would focus a little more on compassion PP. You and your daughter sound awful. [/quote]

8th grade teacher here: those are words of a normal 14 year old. They are fairly mean peaking in 8th grade and [b]slowly become more compassionate[/b].
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Very slowly. Yet to happen to the parent who posted this as a joke.[/quote]

There’s not a thing wrong in the world with this statement.  You people need to get over yourselves. [/quote]

There is something terribly wrong with you if you think the daughter’s categorization of her classmate was acceptable.[/quote]

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