Elizabeth started second grade today, and she was so excited. She had her new backpack packed with all her new school supplies since last week. She woke up, brushed her teeth, and got dressed all without any prompting or reminding from me. I hope her excitement and self-sufficiency lasts longer than one day.
As we walked into her classroom, Eliz scanned the room for friends and familiar faces and she was able to spot a few. Although there was one little "friend" of Elizabeth's that I kind of wished was in a different class. For the third year in a row, Elizabeth's nemesis, 'Violet,' is in the same class as her.
The word, friend is in quotations because 'Violet' is hardly Elizabeth's friend. It all started when they were in kindergarten and Violet scratched Eliz's neck. Eliz told their teacher. Their teacher made phone calls to both sets of parents and Violet got in trouble. So from then on, they've had problems (of the passive-agressive variety. No other scratching incidents have happened.)
Throughout first grade, Eliz would come home and say that Violet was being nice to her and she wanted to be her friend. Then the next day, Eliz would say that Violet didn't want to be her friend, and that Violet told another girl not to be Eliz's friend as well.
Or Eliz would tell me that Violet said she couldn't play with her and some other girls because Eliz wasn't wearing pink or Eliz wasn't wearing a dress, or some other stupid reason. Violet seems to be a Mean Girl in the making....
So you can understand my disappointment at seeing Violet this morning in Eliz's class. I'm hoping we don't have another school year of the same thing. I'm hoping that this past summer has helped to mature both of the girls a little bit so that Violet won't be as mean and if she is, then Eliz won't care so much...
5 comments:
Aww, they say girls are always cute, but sometimes they can be right bitches :P But hopefully she will grow out of it :) I wish I was back at that age excited about starting another school year!
SE x
I hope she has a better year!
Baby Girl had one of these in pre-k. Luckily the other little girl got to go to K this year and Baby Girl is still in pre-k. I wrote a whole "frenemy" post about it awhile back.
It is sad because we know this will happen with girls, but we wish that it would it least wait until jr high or high school so that our little ones could be more adept at handling it.
My daughter Allison has had a "Violet" for the last couple of years, they finally got different classes this year. So I feel for you - I hope she has a better year.
I hope so too, but don't hold your breath! My 13YO has a 'friend' like that. This girl goes home and tells her mom all the mean things she did...only she says that MY DAUGHTER did them to her! AAACCK! My kid has her faults, but she's the worst liar I've ever met! We've spent hours discussing this other girl and I just don't know what to do either.
Hang in there...girls are TOUGH! At least you have a boy to look forward to. My husband is stressing out because we still have TWO MORE GIRLS to get through after the oldest one! He says, "I don't know how I'm going to do this three times!"
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