Further Adventures of Mean Girls

I spoke with the mom of Summer's ballet buddy today while girls leaped across the studio floor in their matching lilac leotards. She shrugged off the mean girl sitch. "I think they make too much out of these things," she said. She knows the queen meanie and says she had so much trouble with friends in preschool that her parents pulled her out before the year was over.

Doesn't sound good to me.

Comments

[Christiana]

Isn't it sad that kids can't just be nice and innocent until they come up against the "real world" of adulthood?

[Sarah]

That reminds me--I might have told you this already--about this great thing that an anti-bullying seminar/workshop leader said you can say in response to people who say that being mean/bullying is a normal part of childhood: Normal is whatever we, as a society, decide it is; we used to say that it was "normal" to keep slaves and not let women vote, too; when and if we decide that it is NOT OK for our children to treat each other badly, then we can take the steps necessary to make it so.