There is this boy in GlitterGirls’ class who is very socially backwards. Very. Socially. Backwards. I really feel sorry for him, he tries, but it’s like he has no filter that tells him what is socially acceptable and what is not. His mom is a bit of a socialite, so it’s not that he isn’t being taught it at home, he just doesn’t get it.

Anyway, apparently some of the kids at school told him he couldn’t sit with them at lunch, and GlitterGirl told them to stop being mean, that he could sit down if he wanted, and she not only showed him where at the table he should sit, she kept bringing him into the conversation and telling the other kids to knock if off when they made fun of him for something.

He told his mom, and his mom told me at a school function when she saw me and wanted to let me know that I should be proud of my daughter.

I told GlitterGirl how proud I was of her for sticking up for him and for not following the other kids’ lead and being mean to him like they were. And she got all mad at her friends all over again when she told me about it, and about how wrong they were to make fun of him. She said he’s nice and he never hurts anyone and she just couldn’t watch them be mean to him.

I’m very proud of her.

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