church cliques Re: Mommy coping strategies for school events...

[Guest guest]

my daughter had the opposite happen to her. She was one of only a handful of

public school kids at our church. She said I might as well have taken her to

another public school and dropped her off for the day. It's a kids thing to

make these cliques. Homeschooled, public schooled, christian, or not Christian.

It's just that much harder for my son being non-verbal and having a long list of

differences. Someone in Jr church told him to " eat grass, cow! " Now we make

good natured jokes about the Mooing because we LOVE it but this boy was being

mean. He was half my son's age.

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> Something similar happened at church with my two girls (without DS). The girls

in their Sunday School class were being Snobs and really being not nice ro my

girls. My girls are nice, pretty, and well-behaved (and taught NOT to act like

these girls). We talked about it and I told them to go to the Sunday School

teacher who agreed " some girls are not nice " , but they refused to do anything

about it. My girls NEVER had a smile on their face when coming home from church.

Finally, we switched churches and they are somewhere where they are well

accepted and plus there are more homeschooled kids (that makes a difference too

because these were snotty public school kids...not that all PS kids are snotty

but these are). The adults at the new church ENCOURAGE the other kids to

interact when there is a *new kid* at church, which is what *should* happen at

churches. I'll be darned if I would stay at a church where the people or

children, either or both, were not ALL friendly.

> Just my opinion,

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