Looking for advice on how best to deal with this.
I feel that my 8 year old daughter is being manipulated by her friend and isolated from other classmates. Big accusation to make of an 8 year old I know, but I really do think this.
They have been friends for all of school but recently the 'friend' is causing my daughter upset and it is causing her massive anxiety. She is refusing to eat at school, is complaining of tummy ache when she has to go to school which I think is anxiety as is only ever at schooltime, her teacher says she is more withdrawn in class now and less confident with speaking etc.
Examples of the other child's behaviour are that she told the rest of the class to be careful of my daughter as she is a liar, she physically drags her away when she tries to play with other children, or she cries and says she needs to talk to my friend alone but then is fine as soon as she has her alone, she tells my daughter that others don't really like her and to play with her, she plans parties loudly saying everyone will be invited except my daughter. She criticises the work she does in class. Other times she can be really sweet and friendly which is why my daughter finds it confusing.
I have told her to play with others and have told the school about my concerns. However each day she comes home and is sad and eventually will tell me about another incident.
How should I be handling this? What advice can I give my daughter? What should I expect from the school? Because of the nature of their friendship I think she school just see it as girls being girls but I feel it is more. Am I overreacting? Tell me how to help my daughter as I want my bubbly happy girl back! :-(
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SoberBee · 29/11/2016 12:44
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