I find that family members seem to find something else "wrong" with dd#1 in order to make her academic advancement more acceptable. Yes, she's in 7th grade, but she's immature and I have to remember that she's a young 11. She's really not immature just b/c she gets emotional sometimes or b/c she confides in family members that, at times, she feels like she doesn't fit in with the athletes at middle school. I wish that they wouldn't turn her confidences against her and as proof of her not being all that great.

12 and 13 year olds get upset at times too. Typical aged 7th graders feel like social outsiders, too, at times. Her teachers tell me that she fits in quite well socially and that they had forgotten that she had skipped a grade.

That aside, the holidays went reasonably well.

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