I am currently reading a book called "Odd Girl Out". It’s about a woman who decided to explore why girls are so aggressive towards each other. What she has learned is that where boys will beat on each other and move on, girls have learned to be less forward and will use emotional daggers instead of physical blows. The girls can suffer from the emotional scars of these relationships more than people think. The author explains this is a form of bullying, but school administrators often consider it to be "girls being girls".

This book reminds me alot of my childhood. Friends who would say they were not your friends, girls suddenly ignore you and you don’t know why. The cliques are bad enough, but when your own friends are mean, you don’t know what to do.

I wish there was a way to get away from this for my girls, but I see no way around it. I see this in women, not so much in men. The women I work with can be petty, unkind and very hard to deal with in general. A snub to their team is a snub to them. I find this odd. Shouldn’t an issue between two people be between two people?

I can’t really stop this from happening, but I can see that my girls are going to have to experience this and live on…I can only hope I can talk them through this.