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[quote=Anonymous]Where do you see that I encouraged her to wear make up?

She's in middle school. Middle school is when a lot of kids start wearing make up. I offered, she declined. It was a preemptive strike, if you will. I figured her friends were doing it so she would be asking soon. If I make a small make up allowance up front and teach her how to use it properly, maybe she wouldn't paint herself like a clown. I also didn't want her sharing with friends, so I offered to get her own.

Make up in middle school is an age appropriate rite of passage for many girls.

Also, teasing should e dealt with, but seeing how I'm not the teasing children's parent, I can only do so much. Even of the teacher addresses that, mean girls can find a way to tease. Adults can't, not should they, be supervising every conversation among children. If someone is teasing my child, I take appropriate actions to get the teasing to stop, but if what they're teasing about makes my child self conscious and we can make changes on our end too, we will do that if we're comfortable with that.

What if someone were teasing your son for wearing his sister's hand me downs? Would you make him continue to wear them and say the kids just shouldn't tease? Or would you consider that he might be self conscious about it and make sure he had clothes he felt comfortable and confident in?

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