5 year old DD telling tales on friends she is playing with. Any advice?

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Do other peoples kids do this? DD is 5 and has friends who she is keen to play with and they want to play with her. However, I have noticed that she will often come over to me and tell me when the person she is playing with has done something wrond ie cheat at a game or when someone hurts another person who she is playing with. I am pleased that she seems to have a strong sense of right and wrong but wonder if other parents experience this behaviour in their kids and how they handle it.

The only reason I post is because it often puts me in what feels like difficult situations if the other kids parents are there. I also wonder whether this will make her unpopular in the long run.

Should I be concerned?

it is completely normal i think the best thing is to say ok, how do you think the other person would feel if you did the same thign? kind of thing.

DSD is 6 but tells tales constantly

It drives me insane.

It has been mostly ignored by the other adults in her life as she is a little ...errm....precious shall we say.

But i have started to point out that it is not nice to tell tales. that unless she is telling that someone is in danger or doing something dangerous then we will no doubt find out anyway.
I have told her that her friends aren't going to want to play with her if she keeps trying to get them into trouble.

It sounds a little mean actually but I think it is importnat to explain why it isn't nice to tell tales and what the consequences could be if she were to conitinue.

I have never been able to better the advice given to dcs by their infants school:

you must tell an adult when you or anybody else is being hurt or frightened (but not otherwise)

so in other words, we don't want to know every time little Johnnie didn't say please nicely or Mary poked her tongue out- we only want to know about the seriously upsetting stuff

Thanks Cory that is fab advice. I will try that one out next time.