My daughter is 7 years old, due to some circumstances she is in 3rd grade. Third graders are generally turning 9 during this school year. I didn't realize how difficult this would be for my little girl until just recently.
When she started school this year, several of the girls from her class last year are in her class this year. Of course she was excited that her 'friends' were in her class. It wasn't too bad until i noticed that they stopped walking out with her at the end of school, and my husband noticed that in the mornings these 'friends' would walk by without saying hello.
K. was invited to a birthday party for a girl who lives in our neighborhood, only a few girls were invited, and it's the same girls who are ignoring my daughter. I talked to her to see if they played with her during school, and she said that sometimes they did. I had told the mom that K. would go to the party, but now i'm not so sure. I told her last week that if the girls weren't nice to her this week, that i didn't want her to go. Today she said that they didn't talk to her at all during the day.
Why are girls so mean? I don't remember being like this when i was little, but i was probably also the one being ignored. How do you help someone who is so innocent realize that people are not always nice? Do I let her go to this birthday party and pray that the are nice to her. It's a sleepover, and i would hate to have her come home crying. I just don't know what to do or how to deal with it.
My son who is 5 was discussing it this afternoon in the car and very plainly said it. "These girls where nice to you last year, now that a new girl is here, they're not nice to you. You have to ignore them in school and maybe then they'll want to be your friend."
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