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missmoopy · 22/09/2010 16:57

My dd is almost 6 and is in yr 1. Last year she had a 'best friend' who kept deciding she no loger wanted to be her friend, and another friend who seems to be involved in this. This seems to be the case again. They exclude dd from playing, but then days later want to be her friend again. dd is very confused and upset. She doesn't do all this 'i'm not your friend' stuff and is quite easy going. I have told her to ignore them, let them get on with it etc etc but what else can I do? I have sent a text to the Mum of one of them as i kind of know her. it was polite, just explaining whats going on and asking her to talk to her dd. i think one of the problems is that her dd watches lots of disney pre teen nonsense that is about girls being quite bitchy in their friendships. Heelllpppp!

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wonka · 22/09/2010 22:41

Poor you and your DD, My son went through this last year. It is worth talking to the class teacher (at least letting them know whats going on.) Their reminder to my son's class about the buddy bench was invaluable. It is short lived and will all be forgotten about in the next few weeks!

missmoopy · 23/09/2010 09:32

Thankyou. She was very clingy this morning when I dropped her off. I spoke to her teacher who reassured me its very common Sad

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wonka · 23/09/2010 11:14

Unfortunatly it is :(
Hope she has a better day today!

pilates · 24/09/2010 13:31

It is very common and probably will continue for many years. I think if she wants to continue playing with these girls as soon as they start being mean tell your daughter to walk off and play with someone else. She doesn't need to say anything just walk off and encourage her to have a wide circle of friends.

bashstreet · 27/09/2010 18:46

Hi, have exactly the same problem with my dd who is 9yr this term her best friend has completely snubbed her, hasn't been a row or incident she has just decided she doesn't want to play with my dd anymore, dd is utterly devasted and has no idea why this has happened, today she refused to get dressed and was in floods of tears, had to keep her at home as she was so upset, am encouraging her to widen her circle of friends, but is hard for her to break into already established friendship groups, any advice?

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