Do I bring up that I know my daughter didn’t have the best time on her field trip?advice/question
self.breakingmom
submitted 3 months ago by
mimihomemom
My daughter is 8, and she’s unfortunately a lot like me. She has a lot of ‘friends’, but all of those friends have a best friend, and she just floats around. I was called a social butterfly, but I just didn’t have a spot to land. She deals with the same thing.
We have a pretty open relationship, and she tells me a lot, but recently she doesn’t say much about school at all. Alternatively, her teacher tells me that she talks positively about home all the time. So, I guess I’m kind of assuming that there isn’t that much heat at school happening to spill out at home.
She has been excited about a field trip they went on and discussed endlessly who she would sit by and hang out with. I tried to help her figure it out, but as a parent, you can’t really do much.
When she got back, I asked her how her trip went, and she just said ‘fun’ and dropped it, so I didn’t push.
Her teacher uploaded photos of the trip, and my kid isn’t be any of her friends in them. She’s off to the side. Which likely means they did what she mentioned and hung out with their ‘best’ friend instead of her.
It makes me really sad to see because I know how it feels and how good it feels to vent, but I don’t want to make her feel worse about it by bringing it up.
Wwyd?