Hi, DD is 4.5 and starting primary school in Sept. A year ago we moved into our house and in the last 6 months or so DD has started playing with some other girls in the road. There is one Y2 and her sister who is same age as DD and starting school with her, and 2 reception aged girls. They always call for DD and ask her to play out. However recently they have been ganging up on her and accusing her of doing naughty things like ruining Y2's colouring book (she didn't) and running away from her whenever DD goes over. This weekend I have been watching them from the upstairs window as a neighbour told me he has seen some bullying going on. DD still seems happy to play with them but can't understand why they play mean games with her.
Once this weekend I went outside and told the girls that DD wasn't going to play with them if they were going to be mean and if they wanted to play nice games with her, they could call for her then. But DD didn't want to go in so we sat outside and made daisy chains. Then the girls came over and said sorry to her and when I asked what for? they said for being mean to her. They seemed genuinely contrite but when I went inside they started running away from her again.
One of the mums brought DD back from their garden a couple of weeks ago as "the girls were being mean to her" but DH didn't ask for more info as he was a bit taken aback. But it left DD feeling like she had done something wrong as she'd been brought home.
How do I help DD understand that these girls are not friends if they play with her in this way? Or is it something she has to find out the hard way? It's a new area for us so she doesn't have any other friends she can play with yet.
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DD is being bullied - what do I do?
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chicaguapa · 25/06/2006 21:37
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