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10 year old is very bossy and rude

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Spename84 · 07/09/2023 19:26

Hi my 10 year old has always been a bit out spoken and hyper. She is a good girl she is well behaved at school and likes to help ppl etc but I’ve noticed over the past year or so she is very bossy and a lot of things she says is said in a mean way (although she says she doesn’t mean it that way) and I’m scared she’s going to lose friends over it. For example today her friends came to see if her and her sister wanted to play out. Instead of saying nicely no and bye see you later she said “can you go away now.” And then she just walked away. I spoke to her about it and said it sounded quite rude but she said she didn’t realise and she was just telling them that she didn’t want to play out. She didn’t used to talk to ppl like that and it’s not how she was brought up and definitely not how others around her speak to ppl. How should I approach this? Will she grow out of it? Her friends do get a bit much sometimes (huffs and lots of drama over who likes who more etc) and I think it’s overwhelming for her sometimes but I just wonder when or if she will calm down and just talk nicely to ppl. Should I just let her get on with it and what happens happens?? I feel like maybe she needs to work it out on her own rather than me nagging her to be nicer.

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