Hi, Bell Fen! - Luminous Hyaena

Anonymous asked:

My five year old started coming home from school terrified and in tears because an elven classmate started telling her that she was dying. I've spoken to the other little girl's parents, but they won't do anything because they maintain that "technically she IS dying," and the school is treating it as a "kids will be kids" issue. Is there anything else I can try to do about this? We can't afford to move or leave work to homeschool.

It can be tempting to try to fight fire with fire (“You’re dying too, just slower”) but I think I’d work on shoring up your daughter’s confidence - her classmate is ignorant and unkind; she should know that - and also work on the parents some more if you can.  Do they want their little girl to grow up believing that it’s okay to make others cry as long as whatever they’re crying about is technically true?