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I understand the desire to protect your children from having bad experiences, but isn’t that exactly the time when she would need to start learning how to handl
by orev 3y ago
I understand the desire to protect your children from having bad experiences, but isn’t that exactly the time when she would need to start learning how to handle these things on her own? If you isolate her, how’s she going to learn how to handle the politics of high school, college, and adult work life? At what point do you decide to throw her back into the pool, that’s now full of peers who already had the chance to figure out how to navigate the social intricacies?
It seems like providing open communication and support for her struggles would be more constructive for her future.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI didn’t find middle school behavior to be particularly material for further social interactions in life. High school, college, yes. Pubescent bullies and cliques? Not so much. Puberty is hard enough without swimming in a sea of it. My experience was middle school was nothing like high school, college, or life afterwards. It was like some weird collective psychotic break for a few years then everyone went back to being normal. Sounds like a great time to explore the world and gain social skills that way.