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Anonymous wrote:My 6 almost 7 year old was talking on the phone to her best friend last night and I overheard their (loud) conversation.
They were talking about who you "LIKE LIKE" more than a friend, and giggling about some new boy in their class that her BF "like likes" and how he had broken up with his girlfriend.
My daughter's BF has high school aged siblings, so I'm assuming she's been exposed to more of these conversations from overhearing her brother and sister.
I had no idea we'd be discussing this stuff already. What would you say to her? Do you say nothing because it's ridiculous? Do you take a hard stand that she's too young to think about this stuff? Would you limit the interaction with the BF?

wahhht?

OP here. She doesn't have her own phone, I meant our house phone. This is the only friend she talks with on the phone. They've been BF's since they were 3.5

Anonymous wrote:My 6 almost 7 year old was talking on the phone to her best friend last night and I overheard their (loud) conversation.
They were talking about who you "LIKE LIKE" more than a friend, and giggling about some new boy in their class that her BF "like likes" and how he had broken up with his girlfriend.
My daughter's BF has high school aged siblings, so I'm assuming she's been exposed to more of these conversations from overhearing her brother and sister.
I had no idea we'd be discussing this stuff already. What would you say to her? Do you say nothing because it's ridiculous? Do you take a hard stand that she's too young to think about this stuff? Would you limit the interaction with the BF?

wahhht?

Anonymous wrote:

I overheard my niece, then six and her best friend talking:

Friend: Brody dumped me.

Niece: He doesn't even have his big teeth yet!

This is awesome. Words cannot describe how much I love it.

HA!!! Best thing ever.

When my son was 7 or 8 I remember him telling me there was a little girl he played with now and then until one day he went up to her and she was busy talking with a friend. They both started shouting at him to "go away" "This is private!" and so forth. He couldn't figure out why they were so mean.

Then a week later one of the little girls asked him to be her boyfriend. He said we are friends already and she said that he had to tell her he loved her because she loved him. The relationship lasted a few weeks, but she started to get angry when he played with his male friends and things fizzled.

I am really glad he told me all this because one day I am going to have a lot more to worry about and I will want him to share these things with me. This was all innocent thank GOD!

I overheard my niece, then six and her best friend talking:

Friend: Brody dumped me.

Niece: He doesn't even have his big teeth yet!

This is awesome. Words cannot describe how much I love it.

My first kid got "married" on the playground in kindergarten. The kids actually were a "couple" on and off throughout elementary school.

Anonymous wrote:I overheard my niece, then six and her best friend talking:

Friend: Brody dumped me.

Niece: He doesn't even have his big teeth yet!

Hahahaha

I overheard my niece, then six and her best friend talking:

Friend: Brody dumped me.

Niece: He doesn't even have his big teeth yet!

OP here. I didn't get involved in the conversation in any way. My husband and I could hear them chatting and we were sitting there kind of shocked and laughing. My DD was trying to give her friend advice on how to tell the boy she likes, that she likes him. My DD said she should pass him a note in class because it seems to work in the movies.

I thought this stuff would happen more around age 12 and up!

Anonymous wrote:From whAt I can tell, at that age is is fairly normal for girls to like like boys, and boys to have zero interest (I think my son was just confused by the whole conversation). I would not make a big deal about it, but no harm in starting a conversation.

There are definitely boys who like like a particular girl at this age.

And there are also girls who have zero interest.

This is how it goes.

A girl "likes likes" a boy.
The boy has no clue
The girl's friends go to the boy on the playground, "do you like Larla?"
The boys is like "uh, duh, ummmm Larla uh I guess"
Then they are going together.
A week later the boy has not spoken to the girl.
The girl "breaks up" with the boy.

I find the moms of girls get waaaaayyyyy tooo involved in the fake girlfriend/boyfriend stuff.

Stay out of it, don't ask questions.... Stay out of it.

From whAt I can tell, at that age is is fairly normal for girls to like like boys, and boys to have zero interest (I think my son was just confused by the whole conversation). I would not make a big deal about it, but no harm in starting a conversation.

I might ask what "like like" means, but mostly I'd ignore it.

My 6 almost 7 year old was talking on the phone to her best friend last night and I overheard their (loud) conversation.
They were talking about who you "LIKE LIKE" more than a friend, and giggling about some new boy in their class that her BF "like likes" and how he had broken up with his girlfriend.
My daughter's BF has high school aged siblings, so I'm assuming she's been exposed to more of these conversations from overhearing her brother and sister.
I had no idea we'd be discussing this stuff already. What would you say to her? Do you say nothing because it's ridiculous? Do you take a hard stand that she's too young to think about this stuff? Would you limit the interaction with the BF?