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[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]

The only people I know who as adults look back and say they were "friends with...all" in their school were the few most popular kids (some mean-girls, some not) who had the option because everyone *wanted* to be friends with the cool kids.  Those who lived a more average existence (not the most popular, not the least) generally weren't under any illusions that everyone was their friend.

But it occurs to me that maybe the stumbling block is the difference between an introvert and an extrovert's definition of friend.  I got along with everyone in my school, but as an introvert defined my friends as the relative small group I was close to - ate lunch with, hung out with, talked about personal things with, knew their phone numbers by heard, etc..  It's entirely possible that an extrovert would have considered themselves friends with some of the people I thought of as friendly acquaintances.[/quote]

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