Very sensitive 3rd Grade girl.

Hi everyone,My (only child) daughter, 8 years old, is having a rough time and i'm not really sure how to help her. She's very smart, nice looking and considerate, but there's a group of girls at her school that seem to really delight in her suffering. They don't even say really really mean stuff to her, but she takes every word to heart and it's become a giant obstacle in her life. For example one of them will say "you like to dress all sporty, but you're not really like that," and for kids with a thicker skin, they'd be able to just shrug that crap off and get on with life. For my kid, this turns into an hour long drama in the morning about what she's going to wear. The list goes on, for sure, but this is a pretty median example of what we're struggling with.Some things about me, i'm a semi-SAHD, enough that I can be there for her whenever she needs me to be. I was bullied both physically and verbally most of my childhood, and the advice that was given to me, fight back, most certainly didn't work; it only made things much worse, in fact. I hated going to school because of it and desperately don't want my kid feeling that way, and i'm starting to see her dreading school. It just kills me. This has gone on since pretty much the 1st grade and i've tried reaching out to the parents of the other kids (with pretty mixed results, mostly negative) and the school administration.Maybe i'm internally projecting too much of my own experience onto hers, I don't know. I'm just looking for ideas outside of my own box. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2cuCaw4