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We're teaching the 10 year old that kids/people pick on whoever they can get a rise out of. If someone is messing with her, and she just gives them a blank, "whatever" look, and goes about her business, they'll move on.
I think it's working, too. A few weeks ago, she got her hair cut much shorter than it had been, and after her first day at school with it, she said all her classmates were stifling laughter, so she told them to go ahead and laugh at her for a few minutes. And then they were all over it, and nobody has said anything about it since.
I realize this is just minor teasing, but we're hoping that she'll start learning for herself(as she seems to be) that her reaction to such incidents will go a long way towards diminishing their frequency.
And if she wants a cell phone, she can damn well get a job and get her own...
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