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Discovered my dd age 8 is being bullied online.

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Juk3 · 30/09/2020 12:14

So yesterday I discovered my dd had been on the receiving end of some horrible messages from her so called best friend. The other child's mother won't accept her child is in the wrong and has blamed my dd for being controlling and mulniputive towards her child. The other child has been sending demands, telling dd who she can and can't talk to at school and threats if she dares to talk to anybody else or doesn't do as she says, these are long paragraphs/statements and extremely horrible. My dd has sent nothing more the "no" "sorry I am busy" "I don't want to" "can you please stop" so how she can be in the wrong I don't know. The other child has been sending multiple other girls in the class messages about dd and how she doesn't like her but don't tell her etc etc and the same thing has happened on FaceTime and over heard by a parent who then mentioned it prompting me looking back over the messages. I have seen messages from 3 parents so far where the other girl is being mean about dd and then warning the girls off from playing with her, all very unkind and uncalled for. The 3 other girls have told dd in messages what has been going on and dd has said it's fine she doesn't mean it. How do I get through to dd that she doesn't have to deal with this rubbish and move on and secondly how do I deal with the other parent as the behaviour needs to stop.

OP posts:
Kalula · 01/10/2020 09:48

Not everything is the school's responsibility. This happened at HOME. Not at school. It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the school. Parents need to parent and stop passing every single onto the school to deal with. This is your responsibility as a parent. This has nothing to do with the school. smh

Beamur · 01/10/2020 10:45

It's probably useful for the school to know in terms of being aware of the dynamics of this group. It won't be anything they haven't seen before.
I think you've been given a bit of a hard time OP on this but hopefully you can take steps now to stop it continuing and your DD has learnt a hard lesson.

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