Damn Facebook

[Gracey98]

Story is my daughter has been on and off arguing with a group of her friends for the last few months they fight make up fight make up etc Etc but there is one girl who will not make up with her my daughter has tried several times to be friends but she's not interested which would be fine but her mother is now going on Facebook and slating my daughter calling her a bully telling her she will end up working at mcdonalds etc she is a 40 year old women and my daughter is 13 I do not want to get into a Facebook row with her as I'm not a child so what should I do? my daughter is distraught as she thinks this is all anyone will talk about at school she's very very academic and is just starting her gcses I do not want this effecting her

It sounds to me like your DD needs a new set of friends, but in the meantime she could either close her facebook account or block the girl in question so that she doesn't have to see these comments.

If anything, the girl and her mother come out of it looking worse than your DD - over involved mother fighting her DD's battles and looking extremely childish and undignified.

Tell your DD as much and do not engage.

Block both of them and check your daughter's privacy settings. If they are posting comments when your daughter has commented on other's Facebook that is harder. Perhaps your daughter can make a comment about a 40 year old harassing a child and who's the one behaving like a child. Not sure how far the police would get involved (perhaps someone will come along to advise on that) but like I said your daughter is a child and the mother is an adult