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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopefully for everyone's sake someone will step up and do the right thing to make peace among these girls. They should meet, express their feelings, apologize where apologies are needed, hug and move on. [/quote]

I can't quite figure out if this is a serious suggestion or not - I can't quite believe it is.  Why on earth should they hug and move on?  I'd vote for agree to treat each other with more kindness and certainly civility, probably continue disliking each other, and move on.  (But I'm of the philosophy that it really is okay for kids to not like or be friends with everyone at their school - they have to be kind, civil, and treat others with respect, but that's all that's required.)[/quote]

That sounds like mean advice for kids. Don't we want our kids to feel as though they are friends on some level with all in their community? Your philosophy sounds mean spirited. [/quote]

It is wrong, and now you know why those girls behave the way they do. Imagine if instead, their mothers taught them how to find the good in their classmates. It isn't hard to do.[/quote]

Actually, I come at it from the side of having been the victim and feeling for the victim. Having been in her shoes, I really really hated when the mean girls said sorry for the sake of the adults who wanted to smooth things over and pretend kids were all sweetness and light and innocence who all got along, expecting me to go along with this new (often insincere) "friendship." You as an adult don't get along with everyone; you're not friends with everyone; why would you expect that of a child? As I said, I expect my daughter to treat everyone with kindness and respect. I certainly don't expect her to be friends with, or hug and makeup with, the boy who is tormenting her at school this year. I think it's a lot healthier to teach her that he's having a hard time this year, she still has to be kind, but not that she has to go beyond that into some idealized childhood where everyone is friends.[/quote]

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