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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What cracks me up is that many of you are the same ones screaming "it takes a village....".  When "the village" steps in, you jump in front to defend your little snowflake.  OP, your daughter is mean. You said she told another little girl she couldn't sit in the seat next to her.  That's an ass move, and she got called on it.  There is no more to it. [/quote]

Seriously?  Kids do this.  It does not indicate that OP's daughter is some irredeemable "mean girl," and does not warrant WWIII or a mother stepping in to fight her kid's battles.  A decent parent teaches their child how to deal with these issues.  Will you be there to mediate Snowflakes battles when she is in college?  Or married?

LOSERS![/quote]

I have three in college and two in high school.  I don't get involved in kids issues.  You need to go back and read what the OP said.    There was no battle.  The OP's daughter wasn't upset.  It sounds like the mother simply asked the OP's daughter to be nice.  How is that a big deal again?  You are right...kids do this.  And they depend on the adults to call them on it.  If one of my girls told another child that they couldn't sit down next to them, I would be mortified!  I would apologize for my child's behavior and spend some time talking about the importance of being kind to others.

It sounds like have a very different approach to parenting.  [/quote]

If you say so.  I've worked for three different universities and a private school and have seen how this insistence that we fight our kids' battles for them turns out young adults who are helpless to solve their own problems or make decisions.  I would speak to my child in this situation too, but I would be very unhappy with the mother who felt the need to approach my child without talking to me about this first.  I am her parent, YOU are not.  I think we can assume that this mom did not see the incident between OP's child and her daughter, so yes, she was out of line.  As are all of you who are jumping on OP and calling her MIDDLE SCHOOLER every name in the book. This mom was not intervening at the time.  She was making her child's problem her own personal problem instead of talking to her own daughter about how she could address this terribly common tween/teen girl issue.  This is not about the "village," this is about a mom who was out of line.  Was OP overly hysterical in her post?  Yes, I think she was.  She also has room to reflect upon how she can more productively address this situation.  But you are all beyond the pale, and I stick by that, whether you are a mom bully or a dad bully.  Because that is how the vast majority of you here come across.  Simply NASTY.

I will be back to defend OP often so just stop.  Just stop.  You are all ganging up on her while harping about mean girls.  HELLO?  Hypocrites and losers, sorry.  If the truth hurts, too bad.[/quote]

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