My daughter who is 6 has been friends with a neighbour's daughter and they are both in the same school, she is also aged 6.
Their relatiosnhip tends to be that the friend knows what buttons to push with my daughter and at times, in front of us, goes out her way to upset her, our wee one is getting better at dealing with it, but it's as if this other girl has some kind of hold on her.
Recently at school assembly we went to watch our daughter's class do a performance where they all said poems, sang and danced to various songs. The neighbours daughter was in the front row whispering, pointing and laughing at the kids who were all up performing. Most ignored them, but true to form our daughter noticed and then seemed to fade from the performance as, on asking her afterwards, they made her feel sad that they were laughing at them all.
What struck me as well was that when the 2 wee girls were acting like this, they actively turned to seek myself and my partner out to see if we were watching, before whispering and laughing again.
Now, I think the behaviour is pretty strange for 6 year olds, particularly the latter paragraph. However, my conundrum is, how do I encourage my daughter to ignore them as she has plenty of other friends but seems to always want to be accepted/please these other 2.
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GlasgowParent · 10/02/2015 11:11
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