what should i tell my 10 year girl when her classmates make fun of her religion?

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Answer 1

What is her religion?

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Answer 2

Why do her classmates need to know what her religion is? Why tell such personal stuff to others? Once they know, they will make fun of her, no matter what her religion is. Tell her to get used to it, because such is life. Shallow minded people-and there are a lot of them in this world-make themselves seem smart, cool, etc, by making fun of other people. Race, religion, fashion, shoe size, nose size, etc, etc, etc.... everything is a target. If you can't take this when you are a kid, you will not be able to handle being an adult. Things only get worse in college, the military, the workplace, etc. Your daughter should realize that when people make fun of her, it is because deep down they resent her for being better than they are, because they want to be like her. They are jealous, so they mock. She sould just smile, knowingly, without commenting, and go on about her business. If she shows pain they win, and will make more fun of her for being so easily hurt. When she ignores the attempts to hurt her that will hurt those who are being mean to her.

Answer 3

No matter what the religion, children at this age are quick to judge what they don't know about. I would talk with your child's teacher and have her do a lesson on the religion, or even let your daughter share some important things about your belief system, like what special foods you may eat, special clothing, or special holidays/celebrations. By filling the other children in and not leaving them in the dark, they are probably going to be much more interested in it and answer a lot of their "WHY?" questions. Especially at this age, whatever the teacher deems important enough to talk about is usually way cool!

Answer 4

You don't say what religion it is. Personally I think a persons religion should be very private and not obvious to all around you. If there is something that makes it obvious, perhaps you could consider toning it down a bit, unless it involves the wearing of specific clothing. If that is the case you can only tell her that there are cruel people in this world and she will have to become accustomed to it.

Answer 5

If theres something I cant stand, is a bully. i think so sorry on your little brother. i'd have your mom secretly call the school and whinge massive time. Dont supply names because of the fact if the babies discover out it replaced into your brothers mom, then they're going to enable him have it much greater. tell him for me that those young ones that are picking on him are only egocentric, immature little brats and he may be the single to finally end up a good guy or woman interior the long-term if he tries to no longer enable it problem him. He already sounds like an excellent youngster,.... i desire those punks dont wreck him.

Answer 6

Why would they do that? Is your religion so obvious? Why don't you talk to her class teacher explain what is happening and ask her to explain to the rest of your daughters classmates about her religion. Your question's quite vague so it's difficult to help you very much. Good luck to you both.

Answer 7

religion is a part of who she is, and she should be proud of that. she shouldnt let other people put her down for being who she is, should she? she is just like everyone else, but she celebrates things differently than other people and there is nothing wrong with that. If we all were the same religion, how would we be able to be different and share our opinions??

Answer 8

Just tell her to ignore it when she's at school, and then come home and talk to you about it. Or explain to her that not everybody accepts the same religion, and they just don't understand. Hopefully your religion preaches peace and acceptance, so you can just accept the fact that not everyone agrees on everything, but thats just how life is.

Answer 9

Tell her that dumb people have ALWAYS made fun of other religions--even Jesus was mocked.
Tell her that it just means that those classmates are not as tolerant as they SHOULD be, or as smart as they COULD be.

Stress acceptance and tolerance above all.

note to all the people asking WHAT religion----why does it even MATTER?

Answer 10

Tell her it's much more important what God thinks than what other kids think, and that people change their minds when they mature and realize that spirituality is nothing to make fun of. Tell her proud God is when she defends her beliefs
and so are you.

Answer 11

Depends on her religion, but i think you should tell her that she should stand for what she believes in and if any one is gonna make fun of her to tell them what she thinks is what she thinks is RIGHT!