Today we had another “she’s my friend” moment then lead to an outburst and leaving the trampoline park early due to said outburst. She went into one of the playscapes alone and came out a few minutes later with two other little girls. Fine. They all go back to the trampolines. As we’re watching her, she keeps talking to them, and they’re ignoring her. They weren’t going to the trampolines together, these two girls were trying to escape our kiddo. She continued to bounce around them and try her best to interact with them but they were uninterested. When we called her over to tell her to leave them alone, she got mad and said “but they’re my friends”. Now here comes the back and forth about what the word friend means, she doesn’t know these other girls, she can’t be just following them around. Then she told us that we’re mean for lying and saying she isn’t friends with them. Cue the foot stomping and yelling at us, so we promptly leftThis isn’t the first time we’ve had to have the friend conversation. Last year she had some “friends” that she made at school. Later we learned that said friends were just a small group of girls that would pretend to play with her but actually the games were them just bullying her.She has ADHD and ODD. She spends the majority of her school days in a special program within the school. She has lunch with other kids but doesn’t have friends. In her after school program is the only place she really gets to interact with other kids and even there she gets excluded at times.I don’t know what we can do for her. There are no children in our neighborhood her age. We have one friend with a child her age, and they are never around to do anything with. We feel bad, we’re frustrated, we’re worried she’s never gonna pick up on it and continue to get bullied. I remember not having friends at her age, it made socializing practically impossible as I got older. I don’t want her to suffer the same via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2PBEKUj
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