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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I have a son who's a junior and this doesn't really sound like stuff they (or their friends) would do. That said, you're need to tone down the harshness if you're going to talk to him about it (which you should!). Absent some sort of gravely unethical/illegal/etc. behavior, I think it's really important that kids know their parents are on their side.

(I say this as the kid whose mom never ever told her when she was doing something dumb or likely to be made fun of by other kids - and I did a lot of that stuff. I went through a several year phase of not brushing my teeth in middle and high school, aka way too old to be not brushing teeth, and I wish my mom would have just told me my breath stunk instead of having to overhear it from kids in my class. Or my phase of bothering my crushes incessantly to get them to like me. My mom was well aware I was doing this, and should have gently told me to knock it off, but no. She chalked it up to normal hormonal preteen/teen girl stuff when very few girls my age were still acting that way. By the time I realized what I creep I was being, I had alienated most of the boys in my grade, lol, and plenty of the girls too...)[/quote]

Well you could have had my mom who made sure she pointed out every perceived flaw in comparison to my peers much like OP and some pps recommend doing. Which is a great thing to do if you want your child to lose all confidence in themselves, completely turn inward and not discover they are good enough until they are 30 something. YMMV.[/quote]

You're projecting.[/quote]

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