sdometimes I hate teenage girls

[CathrynRose]

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how do you think I should handle this?

Im so sorry - I hate other people's kids, too. Theyre just so dang mean.

I have no advice - just tell your daughter to keep your chin up. Poor thing.

 

[SC Minnie]

Sounds like she is pulling through this on her own. She has obviously gotten with real friends and is having fun.

 

[MorganLeFey]

so I spoke to the travel coordinator at the camp, who spoke to the counselor with the group. the other girl thought she was playing a prank on my dd, and has apologized to my dd.

the travel program has the kids sign an agreement about appropriate behavior. if they violate the agreement they can be asked to leave the program. the young lady was given a stern lecture about appropriate behavior and was told that if she violates the agreement again she will be asked to leave the program.

and she will have to pay for anything of my dd's that is truly ruined -- not the stuff that can be washed, only the stuff that is destroyed.

I'm satisfied.

 

[agnes!]

Yay, that's good to hear .

agnes!

 

[MorganLeFey]

small update.

this was not a light-hearted prank. but I kind of knew that.


seems dd was having "issues" with the girls in her room and asked ti be switched to another room. the head counselor told her she could move. she packed up her suitcase and went to hang with some friends, thinking she'd move her stuf just before "lights out". theh sahving cream was a going-away present of sorts. dd found out about it before "lights out" only because the idiot bragged about what she'd done...she was trying to impress some of the boys on the trip...who promptly ran to dd to tell her what was going on.

dd had to borrow clothes from a riend because everything was inundated with shaving cream and they didn't have time to do laundry while they were at the motel.

guess who she's NOT rooming with next trip.

 

[AprilShowers]

Morgan, I'm only about an hour from Cleveland......want me to take a road trip? LOL Maybe knock some sense into that little brat!!

Seriously though, I'm so sorry for your daughter. Teen girls can be just awful. Hopefully she's found someone else to hang with for the duration of her trip.

 

[luvflorida]

I just wanted to say that I read this thread when you first posted it a few days ago, but it bothered me so much that I couldn't respond at the time. When I read the part where your daughter sent you a text message saying she wanted to come home, my heart was in my throat. I felt so bad for your daughter.

I have a daughter who will be 16 next month and I know if something like that had happened to her, she would have been devastated and I would have received the same text message. Some kids would be able to brush off such an incident or take matter into their own hands, but some kids can't, and that's what breaks my heart.

I'm glad to hear that it all seems to be working out okay and that your daughter has moved past the incident and seems to be having fun with other friends.

I would NEVER hesitate to speak to an adult about such a prank either, and like you, I would have called the counselor, or any adult in charge, to find out exactly what was going on.

 

[MorganLeFey]

my dd can be very dramatic at times, but when I got that message the other day I knew there was something wrong.

now I find out...the other girl has issues. on the trip to Maine the week before Cleveland the other girl was acting like a bully to one of dd's friends, and didn't like it when dd came to her friend's defense. the ocunselors were not surprised by the shaving cream incident...