DD is in P1, will turn 5 next week.
The way the class seems to have worked out is that she has no-one to play with but this one girl (perhaps another but I can't get out of DD why she doesn't go to her)
It is a class of 18, only 6 girls.
This one girls DD ends up with is the DD of a friend, so they have visited each others houses a few times, I thought it would be good for her to make friends.
But, it seems I have made a mistake.
I have now witnessed this girl screaming at my DD to 'Twinkles DD, Come Here' in an aggressive manner, when she was playing with other girls. Then being blanked when the girl decided to run off with someone else (seperate days). Another day she and another of DDs 'good' friends
were chasing her trying to pull out her hair bobbles. Which they succeeded in doing, a teacher had to replace it.
The same day I saw the blanking was when the girl ran to an older girl, who both then blanked my DD.
At lunch time on Friday ( I finally got the whole story from DD on Sunday) the girl pushed DD on her upper arm, so hard that she fell to the ground, hurting her side and landing in wet grass whilst shouting 'Go Away, Twinkles DD!!'
The older girl witnessed this and did nothing.
DD got herself up and said 'That is not a very nice thing to do!' and went to tell the play ground supervisor. Then went inside the school, knocked on the Staff room door and told her teacher.
I don't know what to do now.
I really want DD to stay away from this girl and have talked to her about finding other girls in the playground to play with. That it is nice to have a good friend but, if they are not reliable, that she needs to have others.
There was a P3 girl who tried to befriend DD but DD was too shy I think so she has given up.
I have encouraged DD to find her and try a bit harder.
At Church on Sunday, at sunday school, she met a P2 girl.
I met her too and asked that maybe she could find DD in the playground because someone had pushed her. The girl said that she would.
DD was in tears as I put her to school today.
I don't know if it was the stress of the morning. We slept in and DD is a ditherer at the best of times so a bit of shouting normally happens to get her to move, today I felt was no different.
We forgot her school dinner money, so I popped in with it at breaktime and happened to catch the headmistress ( I know her a little outside of the school) so I had a wee word asking if DD could be moved teams (she is in a team with the girl) in order that she was not sitting with her, being under her influence too much.
When I was saying about the controlling nature and the pushing she did one of those smiles that say 'silly mummy over reacting'
Am I?
I just hate to think of her growing up under this influence because she is a wee softy. 