I'm not gonna be your friend if you're friends with her!

Wow! Can you believe those words came out of my sweet little Darly? I'm a bit shocked that she's trying to be such a b!tc#. I don't know where she got the idea that this kind of behavior was acceptable.

Well it looks like a good long discussion is in order for us and I'm sure the eye rolling will ensue.

I think that the first thing I'm going to do is suspend her email privileges...that's where those horrible words were first spewed. This isn't the first time she's used her email account to be a nasty. So until she can be trusted again, all email goes through me.

Any ideas?

Comments:
Heather said...
ARGH! I just lost my whole comment... I HATE when that happens...Yeah, hate it big time.

The jest of my comment was... I think I would turn the tables on my child and roll play a little to show the "do unto others" scenario and how it might make her feel to have things turned around. well I pretty much did that. I asked her how she might feel if the girl she said this to said "I won't be your friend if you're friends with BESTFRIEND." Well apparently something like that had never occured to her.

Its such a hard subject... part of growing up but sooo hard. It is. And I guess for me the big thing was that I had thought I taught her to be better than that. So it was shocking to find out she did this.

*HUGS* Thanks!



Bone said...
Hey, at least she's still a kid. I've seen people in their 30's and 40's act that way. True. But she's gonna learn now to not be that 30 or 40 y/o. I've seen what happens as an adult. Perhaps I could share that with Darly, it wasn't pretty.


TC said...
I used to hear that a lot as a kid. I know that doesn't really help or make it right, but I think it's probably a phase that most little girls go through. It could be a phase or something she picked up from a TV show that she watches (great educational programing that she watches!). I don't care where she learned it, she now knows that the girl she emailed those hurtful words to never saw them. And she's okay with me approving her outgoing messages. We need to talk about her mis-directed anger at the people who "get her into trouble" when she should be looking at her own behavior.

Barbara said...
You're on your own, I can't help you. I'm gonna cut and run. What? Boys don't do this kind of thing? LOL! hee hee I think I've covered her punishment pretty well. I made her realize that what she did was wrong and hurtful. Hopefully she'll think twice before trying something so mean again.