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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s so insane to even be venting about someone else’s kid to another parent, let alone calling the kid an a**hole.[/quote]

This. I have a friend who does this and it is really weird. But they have a negative take on many people and get really, really easily offended. I just ignore it and assume that the kid is totally normal. [/quote]

OP wasn't venting about this kid in the abstract.  She was venting about how this kid is treating her DD.  Do keep up![/quote]

But she is exaggerating, focusing on the negative, and sounds like she’s encouraging her own child to take any interpersonal difficulty as a major slight.

It’s called black & white thinking or splitting, and it’s uncomfortable to hear from anyone - much less an adult talking about a *child.* I wouldn’t want to be around a person like that.

Moreover, if you savage a child to another adult, then you need to be prepared for people to judge you. You are perfectly free to vent but when you vent about a literally child and call them names - yeah, you are going to get responses to that.

It’s one thing to talk about actual bullying behavior (which OP did not describe) and quite another to appear negatively fixated on what sounds like relatively normal ranges of behavior. [/quote]

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