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How do I distance my child from their bully “friend”

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Ezy950 · 11/04/2019 19:38

My 5 year old dd has been friends with another girl for over a year now, and we have been on a few play dates with her mum, who I’m quite friendly with ( the mum seems quite nice but I’ve noticed some slightly competitive and petty behaviour occasionally).
The problem is that her daughter takes massive tantrums when my daughter wins at anything, or she dosent get her own way, gets jealous when my daughter is friends with other kids, makes fun of her and can make her cry, acts very spoilt, and doesn’t listen to her mum or obey rules well. My daughter even told me that she said “I hate your mum”.
Even after I’ve been nothing but nice to the girl and encouraged play dates so they can play together.
Her mum even said she likes her daughter being friends with mine because my daughter is well behaved and very sociable.
However I’m not happy with my daughter playing with her anymore and have encouraged her to play with lots of different kids. But the mum keeps wanting to arrange play dates. I’m not even sure about the mum anymore, where is this hatred coming from?
How do I get out of the play dates?. They see each other every day at school.

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susan82 · 11/04/2019 21:25

I would continue to encourage your DD to play with other children and broaden her friendship circles and in time you will hopefully find that this other child will move on and not be so reliant on your DD. Your DD sounds lovely and doesn't deserve to be on the receiving end of this mean behaviour. Remain polite to the mum but cool and non-committal. If she keeps asking for playdates, just say you're busy but thank you for the invitation! Easier said than done though i know!

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