How can girls so young be so bitchy?!?!

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Don't girls their age get some kind of education about puberty etc?

In my experience girls are incredibly unkind to each other from a very early age these days...

Hope your dd is okay.

Sadly, a lot of it is learned behaviour. Praise your dd is for being obviously more mature than her classmates by holding her head high and not letting their jealous bitchiness bother her.

I'd let it be unless it's really distressing your dd.

Any chance of having a casual school-gate chat with the girl's mum, if she's a decent-ish sort? Failing that, mention it to the teacher?

Bless her your dd!
Girls are nasty, you only have to be slightly different from the rest and thats it, the flood gates open to abusive/bitchy/nasty comments!

We have had similar expereinces, my dd is 7! Not on a puberty issue, but bitchy comments all the same!

I spose all you can say to her (your dd) is that these girls are jealous or dont understand yet and that their time will come.

I was the last one to develop when i was young and i was incredibly jealous. I was picked on too but because i hadnt got "anything" yet, whereas they all had "everything".

Poor thing - girls can be vile.

Have you read Cats Eye by Margaret Atwood? A brilliant but disturbing book about little girls subtle bullying. One line sticks in my mind "little girls look cute to grown ups but to each other they are life size"

Girls are worse than boys I think. DD is at secondary now and so far, so good, but some of the girls she was at primary with were the biggest bitches.

In fact last week, we had an episode with one of them. DD had asked to borrow my mobile to txt someone, because she had no credit. She txt this old primary school pal, just for a chat and the message came back, on my phone, saying 'piss off bich, I've got new friends now!' Unfortuantely for the girl, I txt back, 'This is Mo's phone, Mo's DD is not here, please don't txt her again. Oh and btw there is a 't' in bitch!'

Good on your dd for rising above it. They are clearly jealous and when it happens to them, it'll all be old hat for your dd!

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Well if you can't stop them from being bitches, the least you can do is to teach them to spell it properly!

My poor dd has been dealing with girls like this since she was 7. It is constant eye rolling, dirty looks, telling her her work is done wrong, tattling on each other and my dd says they gossip about each other is horrible. I had her class over for a birthday a few years ago and I couldn't believe they were gossiping about other kids mother's who were not at the party. I had to speak to them twice about gossiping. What a nasty lot. We struggle with dd all the time how to cope. We are thinking of moving schools but wonder, will it be the same. Likely so, but sometimes a fresh start helps.

Its horrible YP.

My dd (9) wears nothing but crop tops now to school under her uniform because the school bullies belittle anyone who wears a vest.

Because it is relatively small school, in a lovely village, the headteacher reckons no bullying goes on

This is really hard and for your dd but don't forget part of the other girls' reactions is due to being scared and feeling funny about thee same thing happening to them. They are also may feel a bit jealous that they are not the first to grow up in this way and are thus trying to undermine her.