My youngest has recently been very tired so ive let her on occasion have an "all natural" energy drink. It's powder you put in water with vitamins and it does have a little bit of caffeine. Today a couple teammates found out and started telling dd that she was a cheater. That she does so well because of it. They said they are all tired and not doing good and she is doing good and getting lots of praise and attention from the coaches, because of the energy drink. The teammates that originally said this have told other girls and convinced them that it's not fair (mostly younger ones) older girls don't really care... I don't understand as anyone can have energy drinks if they want, dd told them that and they said that they would but they don't cheat. They were pretty cruel the rest of practice. We are at a new gym (relative, 1.5 months) and this is dis encouraging that little girls can be so mean to each other! Dd was near tears, she's sensitive, but I do think it was completely unfair of them to talk to her like that and treat her like a cheater and rule breaker...
Any advice on how to handle this?
Any advice on how to handle this?