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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think posters here have little ability to empathize with a 6th grade girl.

According to OP, the sleepover girls took gloppy sparkle makeup and plopped it randomly all over her daughter's face.   OP said it was in splotches -- on her forehead, her cheeks, her EYES??  her chin, her hair.

They totally smeared this girl.   Putting stuff on her eyes?

Imagine for a moment someone doing this to your daughter, or to you, while you slept.

I think this is a very mean act.  I do NOT think it is the same kind of "prank" as putting someone's hand in warm water while they sleep.   Or even as putting lipstick on a boy, or writing something on someone's forehead.

When you deface someone's face like that, I think it is an act of aggression.   "I hate her and I'm going to mark up her face" is what it feels like to me.

[b]I am guessing that the chest pains OP felt were not directly a result of seeing her daughter's face all messed up, but were the anxiety she felt from feeling like her daughter was symbolically attacked.
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I'm one who commented on mom's reaction.  My DS has been bullied and harassed to the point of being suicidal.  He's been attacked at school and his life threatened.  Parents do their kids no good when they don't stay calm.  Help her wash the gunk of, and get her back to sleep.  Deal with it calmly in the AM.   Even the speech to the girls went overboard IMO.  Is it bullying?  I guess that depends on the intent.  Were they trying to pull a prank and blew it?  Maybe.  Were they trying to inflict harm in the form of a major upset?  Perhaps.  And THAT would equal bullying.

When parents can't deal with it, they aren't a help to their kids.[/quote]

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