Did anybody watch Primetime Live? Episode: "Mean Girls: Watch Your Back!" Is this competition? Even the honor students are doing it!! Every parent needs to watch this show!!!!
2006-09-14 15:41:29 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
I watched the show and while I appreciate this issue is receiving attention, I do not like that we are encouraging our daughters to be BULLIES by referring to this behavior as "mean girls." This wording has created a pop culture sensation out of what amounts to psychological terror.
I told my daughter this morning that I am proud of her for NOT being a mean girl. A few years back she made the choice to lose "friends" to stand up for her own principles and what is RIGHT. While she is proud of herself for what she did, it cost her dearly and she is still paying the price. However beginning today, I will expect accountability from parents and our school system for further harassment of my daughter.
To answer your question, these girls are harassing, terrorizing, humiliating, and manipulating in order to reach and retain the status of popular. For those who FALSELY believe this has occurred for generations, I will not argue, but I will quote Madeline Albright: "We have a responsibility in our time, as other have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history, but to shape history."
2006-09-15 03:49:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because the parents of these kids allow them to act this way to others. It's all about respect. Honestly, I believe if they had more single sex schools, it would probably resolve a lot of these problems. Kids now in days are trying too hard to be noticed for being pretty or popular. I went to an all-girls high school. Given, there were petty arguments about boys and prom (it was high school), but there weren't drag out fights over popularity or being with someone's man. We were there to learn. I think that's the element that's missing from schools today. Too much emphasis on popularity, looks, and sex and not enough on education.
2006-09-14 15:56:28 · answer #2 · answered by babyg1rl007 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
properly surely John would have a factor. those subjects to tend to start at a youthful age and not spiral uncontrolled till the teenager years. that doesn't make you a foul parents, you mentioned you have 3 childrens now and back one merely finally ends up by using fact the undesirable seed of the bunch. i think of you probably did the right ingredient. If she isn't even going to delight in what you do for her then provide up doing for her. i'd do away with better than that if I have been you, perhaps see how a lot she enjoys cooking her very own nutrition, doing her very own laundry, finding her very own rides places, and so on. Then perhaps she would have the ability to comprehend that "adults" do no longer yell and scream till they get there way, and "adults" do there very own errands and domicile artwork, and if she needs to talk to you like she thinks she in can charge and an grownup then she would have the ability to have the duty of one. even perhaps shrink off the money furnish in case you provide her any now. people who communicate back to their bosses get fired. merely tell her she's been fired.
2016-09-30 23:32:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I watched Primetime last night but I think it was called "cruel intentions"?
It was pretty mortifying. My daughter is just 12 and being picked on by mean girls. I keep telling her that girls who are mean like that really hate themselves inside and she should feel sorry for them.
2006-09-15 01:29:51 · answer #4 · answered by KathyS 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm 31 and I think it's the same reason that anyone acts mean or nasty...JEALOUSY. They might think that someone is prettier than they are and act out in order to get the attention drawn to themselves. I don't think that it's anything that can't be fixed by reassuring your children that they are beautiful and very loved. After all, isn't that what we all really want?
2006-09-14 15:47:20 · answer #5 · answered by misty l 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i've acknowledged something about the queen bee concept. majority of them are from suburbs and stuff. like they have nothing better to do than be nasty. i've never experienced the whole queen bee concept when i was in high school (which wasn't too long ago)...we got girls with attitudes...but never to that extent.
and don't bother telling me about season three of laguna beach...those girls with money and a life but act like mean girls...they did it for the show...they really aren't that cruel. i'd know, i live in orange county...
2006-09-14 18:41:40 · answer #6 · answered by mymymissmai 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
it is called competition and lack of self esteem. if others think that they act mean towards others then they will feel better. girls act nasty because they are competitive, rich,spoiled and brats who thnk that everything revolves around them, which of course it does not. they do what they do because they have so many insecurities that they hide through their actions, being nasty being one of them.
2006-09-14 15:50:30 · answer #7 · answered by icycrissy27blue 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
teen girls want the guys to think there hot and want them, girls also like to be rulers they like to be the best and so they tell other girls hurtful things just to make them feel better and they think there so cool that they hurt your feelings, and the pretty girls like to brag and make funny of uglyier or heavier girls.
2006-09-14 17:27:04 · answer #8 · answered by becky w 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Peer pressure and the want to fit in, look cool, be popular and have friends.
2006-09-14 17:27:28 · answer #9 · answered by **KELLEY** 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
im 18 and i will be the first to admit girls are ******* bitches..i try to stay away from the drama..but yea girls are bitches..so you have to stand up for yourself..and maybe if those snobby bitches didnt treat everyone else who is no tlike them like **** this stuff wouldnt go on.
2006-09-14 15:56:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋