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[quote=Anonymous]OP; have you seen how many threads are on DCUM from adult women who have horrible friends or an inability to establish and maintain healthy boundaries between themselves and their "friend"?  People who cannot distinguish friends from "frienemies", and friends from acquaintances?

Teach your children that they do not have to hang out or be friends with people that are not nice to them.  Teach them by example--by telling them that you are minimizing contact between them and the difficult girl, because they do not have to continue hanging out with people who are not nice.  You can pick your friends, and they should be able to pick their friends too!

I had one of these situations, and it was also a situation where after a couple of attempts, I could see that any feedback to my friend would backfire.  So I started meeting the mom without the kid; to have lunch or coffee.

Also, since the kids were in the same class, there were always opportunities to explain what Larla was doing, why it was not acceptable behavior (bullying, grabbing, begging, whining, not leaving when time to go, lying, manipulating, I could go on and on) and conversely how I expected my kids to behave.  So ironically, Larla has been very, very helpful in teaching my kids how to be civilized and respectful human beings.

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