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• Helping Your Kids Deal With Other Evil Children

  I can say right now I'd rather my daughter get her ass kicked than have to deal with social exclusion and popularity and all the crappy power games that start, I kid you not, in KINDERGARTEN. My confident, outgoing, little one has been in a triangle relationship with two other girls, and so far it's been the most heartbreaking thing we've dealt with. Of course, it doesn't help that I had plenty of my own experiences in this arena: being excluded and ostracized, or sometimes even worse, being included at the expense of another and yet being too cowardly to speak up for fear I'd be next. So you'd better believe I was all over these tips for dealing with the popularity game and all that it entails. Read More... Posted Aug 14 2007, 09:23 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: parenting advice, exclusion, popularity

• Kids and Cliques: Why They Exclude

  We all know this picture from our childhood:  there were certain kids who were always standing alone at the edge of the action, never included, sometimes made fun of.  If it wasn't you, it was someone you remember (barely, since you didn't know them well).  And it always seemed to be the same few kids. New research is examining the reasons for inclusion or exclusion, and has come up with a couple of theories.  Before I get to that, here's my theory:  Kids Don't Like Someone Who is Different. Read More... Posted Feb 24 2007, 01:18 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: kids, cliques, groups, inclusion, exclusion