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Ok, I have to tell someone this so I decided that maybe you guys would think it was as cute as I did. My daughter Maddy (Classic HFA) has decided that only girls can be friends. She just started showing interest in socializing and it is still difficult for her to understand how to play with other children but she is happy and thats whats important. Anyway, there is a little boy in her class who comes up to her everyday and says her name....here in France the kids greet each other by saying the other childs name. She is happy to greet the girls but will snub this little boy. She will turn her back on him and she refuses to speak to him. I keep trying to tell her that boys are friends too but she says no. I point out to her that she plays with her brother Luc and he is a boy she says "Luc is a brother"....cant argue with that. So I feel bad for this little boy he always tries, every day to get Maddy to talk to him and I always try to get her to say "Bonjour" but no.
Today after I brought Maddy back to school after lunch I usually will pause outside the gate to watch her play and she typically hangs on this bar that they have on the play ground. On one side they have tires piled up on the pillar so the kids can climb on them and reach the bar but there were too many other kids over there so Maddy got a free tire and rolled it over to the other side. She leaned it against the pillar and tried to climb on it and kept falling off. Then I saw the little boy come over and hold the tire for her.....so sweet!! ! She climbed up and held onto the bar and then fell down and noticed that I was watching her. She ran over to me and he followed her. I told her "Maddy wasnt that nice of ____ to hold the tire for you?" and amazingly she said "yes" and I said can you say thank you (in French) and even more amazing.....she did!! He was so happy he got this big grin and was giggling. What a sweet little boy, hes going to grow up to be a good man! I wonder if Maddy will be nice to him now??? Stranger things have happened .

That is a sweet story.

That is very heart-warming! Thanks for sharing. I too hope she gives that boy a chance. Maybe him helping her will be proof enough that her rule about friends can be re-written!

haha.. maybe she will decide she can have a boy-friend after all! LOL very sweet!

Very sweet story.

We have a similar situation in my son's classroom: one of the little boys, who is of a different race, is very, very kind to him - even at the height of the worst of last year, this boy was making sure my son was included, was understanding...and my son is nothing but mean to this child. This boy gave my son the only birthday party invitation he got this year...and made sure to invite another boy my son likes just so "he'd have someone to play with." Unbelievable, right?

My son does report back the kind things this boy does (he describes them in sort of a disbelieving tone of voice,) so at least some information is getting in. I try to talk to him about how he treats this boy...sometimes he understands and responds better than others. (I did explain the situation to the boy's mother and tell her how incredible her son is being...and I apologized for my son's behavior.)