Does anyone have any advice to help boost my 6 year olds inner confidence that we haven't tried already?! Long story short she's in a 3 friendship but is the third and I've seen and been told by teachers that my DD is subjected to unkind/bullying behaviour from one of the girls in the three. This girl is the QB and the girls in the class dote on her and do as she says and all seem completely in awe of her. My DD is so desperate to be this girls friend she isn't helping herself as she hangs around just waiting for some attention and does anything to get noticed - it's awful watching as that is not how I am at all, I'd have dropped this "friend"!
We've worked with the school on the situation, they've done a lot of topic work on what a kind friend is, they've tried to encourage my DD to play with other people, as have we, but to no avail she just goes back to the original friendship group and is unhappy. We've also spoken to parents about it as we're all friends and they have also been supportive, but my feeling is this unkind behaviour is there because this girl has realised she can do it and has a hold over my DD and gets a reaction.
We've also done lots at home to booster her confidence, lots of books on healthy friendships, playdates with other people etc but if anyone has any other ideas at all I'd love to hear them as I just want her to feel confident to walk away and not accept bad unkind behaviour and widen her social circle to nice people, of which there are plenty in her class but she just isn't reaching out.
Thanks all!