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mummydoc · 08/09/2006 13:58

my dd1 started a new school this week - she has gone into yr 2. There were 5 girls in the class before she joined. In the summer hols we were invited to one of the girls birhtdays ( very thoughtful) . at the party this girl's father commented to me that he was pleased my dd was joing the class as he didn't think much of hte other girls - poor manners, snooty families "wouldn't invite any back to tea" but he htought after initial meeting dd had "lovely manners" and hoped his dd an dmine would be friends. I thought that this was quite nice but a little intense considering we had only just met them. anyway day 2 yesterday and at pick up 2 other little girls go down to school playing field for after school runa round ( apparent ly hte done hting) they ask dd to go to, but she says "oh *** has asked me to play " it turns out that the original little girl isn't allowed to join in after school run around ( they live next to school) so i felt obliged to go wiht dd 1 and this girl and her parent sot her house to play, other 2 little girls qute sad about htis. Now DD has told me originally little girl wants to be her best friend ( i think maybe she was odd one out of group of 5 and so has latched onto dd and her parents are really pushing this) i don't mind but want dd to play/be friends wiht all her new classmates and am worried this family will some how prevent this by pushing their daughter onto dd....am i being paranoid? sorry long post

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Hallgerda · 08/09/2006 14:03

No, I don't think you are being paranoid. I think you're quite right to be concerned. Try to find out what your daughter really wants to do and who she wants to be friends with, and try to help her to do that. If she'd really like to join in the after school run around, stand up to the other family about it.

LIZS · 08/09/2006 14:11

Think you may be overplaying this a little but you could simply get aroudn this by limiting trips to the girl's house and allowing your dd to run around with the others a couple of times a week, you could always say you need to chat with one of their mums . Perhaps you could offer to meet the other girl from school, supervise her running around for a short while then walk her home so her mum doens't have to be there.

mummydoc · 08/09/2006 14:26

thanks - am off to pick up this pm and had already said to dd ( this am) " this afternoon lets go to the big playing field so and so were sad you didn't play with htem yesterday". will see what happens

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