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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I think you were wrong OP. There was really no reason to bring this kid up at all to your friend or call them names.  You could have just said the school year is going fine (because it is), and your daughter is looking forward to a change of scene in middle school.[/quote]

So you sugarcoat your real experiences and feelings in private conversations with friends because you think it's hurtful to privately criticize someone who has been objectively rude to your kid in a way that impacts you directly?

I'm sorry, that's nuts. If a friend asks me "hey how is everything going with DD?" I am going to answer honestly because otherwise what is the point of that conversation?[/quote]

Lol. So to you there is no middle ground between calling a kid an a** and “sugarcoating” the situation? Plenty of people can discuss a challenging situation with a friend, without insulting a kid in the process.[/quote]

I'm not the PP who mentioned "sugarcoating", but are you following the thread?  She (the sugarcoating PP) was responding directly to a poster who told her she had "no reason" to "bring up the kid at all" and should have told her friend that the school year was"fine".  Sure sounds like THAT PP was suggesting sugarcoating to me.  I can only assume that PP has no friends because discussing/venting about a situation like this with friends is normal.  Friends off commiseration, BTDT advice, a kind word, etc.  I guess reasonable minds differ on the use of a curse word, but anyone on here suggesting that OP shouldn't have discussed this at all with a friend is a just a strange.  [/quote]

If I heard someone give the litany of complaints against a 10 year old that OP did, even without the *shole comment, I would think they were really off with a victim complex. [/quote]

I guess you don't have kids or are the head-in-the-sand parent of the *hole kids then.  OP was describing what her DD has been dealing with for the whole year.  Nothing off about it -- some people, 10 year olds including, deserve a whole litany of complaints when being described.  [/quote]

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