gymbeam
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- Mar 18, 2014
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It is hard. There's one girl on my daughter's team in particular who is really hurtful. It breaks my heart because this girl has ADHD and two sisters close in age and I think this factors contribute. Please forgive me parents if I'm wrong in thinking this, but I've wondered if ADHD may weaken her "filter". I feel like perhaps she just blurts things out without thinking about it first. I also mentioned the siblings because I imagine with three preteen to teen girls there is likely some sibling rivalry that carries over into her behavior with friends. Know what I mean? Like she doesn't differentiate between how she can talk to her sisters vs. her friends.
This particular child does end up getting left out of things because of these traits. It makes me sad for her and I am uncomfortable with it. But, when she brings my child to tears I can't force the friendship. I really like this child's mother and I have knocked around the idea of talking to her mom about it but I can't come up with a way to do it without the mom possibly getting angry or hurt. And I'm not sure the mom could do anything to really change it so then all I would have accomplished would have been confirming she is intentionally being left out.
This particular child does end up getting left out of things because of these traits. It makes me sad for her and I am uncomfortable with it. But, when she brings my child to tears I can't force the friendship. I really like this child's mother and I have knocked around the idea of talking to her mom about it but I can't come up with a way to do it without the mom possibly getting angry or hurt. And I'm not sure the mom could do anything to really change it so then all I would have accomplished would have been confirming she is intentionally being left out.